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UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 15: Teaching doll showing an iron lung. England, 1930-50. Wooden model of an … [+] iron lung, with plastic infant doll and bedding enclosed. Probably used to demonstrate to child patients their prospective treatment for poliomyelitis, from the Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital. England, 1930-50. (Photo by Science & Society Picture

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin How much screen time is too much? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under the age of 18 months have no screen time, other than video-chatting. At 18 to 24 months, they recommend only high-quality programming, and at the age of 2 to 5,

An array of shooting stars and fireballs is the hallmark of a meteor shower, but when you have to… [+] compete with a moon in the sky, the visual show is far less spectacular. Here’s how to defeat the world’s greatest source of light pollution. NASA / JPL Every year, as the Earth intercepts the

Turtle biologist Tomas Diagne holding a critically endangered Nubian Flapshell Turtle (Cyclanorbis … [+] elegans). African Chelonian Institute In late November, Tomas Diagne a turtle biologist from Senegal received a big surprise in a theater in London – he had just won the 2019 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa, presented by Prince William. According

This is one of those essays inspired by a Tweet. A scientist, Norm Leonard, recently tweeted that I was one of his favorite celebrity scientists. I tweeted him back with a gracious “thank-you,” but told him that I did not consider myself a celebrity. It really does make me uncomfortable, but over the years I

On November 18, 2019, approximately 19 Starlink satellites passed over Cerro Tololo Inter-American… [+] Observatory, disrupting astronomical observations and hindering the science being undertaken in a real, measurable way. If SpaceX’s current plans unfold as laid out, the consequences for astronomy will be extraordinary. CLARAE MARTÍNEZ-VÁZQUEZ / CTIO In May of this year, Elon Musk’s

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites were brighter than many expected. SpaceX SpaceX has said it is taking measures to tackle some of the concerns raised by astronomers about its Starlink constellation, as it gears up to launch more than a thousand satellites in the next 12 months. The company’s Starlink mega constellation, which will add up to

UNclimatechange / Flickr Many entrepreneurs speak as if they were born to be entrepreneurs. They often say things like “it is the only thing I could see myself doing” and they are quick to point out that their entrepreneurial spirit is not something that can be turned off. But what does the research say? Is

Our entire cosmic history is theoretically well-understood, but only because we understand the… [+] theory of gravitation that underlies it, and because we know the Universe’s present expansion rate and energy composition. Light will always continue to propagate through this expanding Universe, and we will continue to receive that light arbitrarily far into the future,

Imagine a night sky without the Milky Way. There was a time before stars even existed. (Photo by … [+] Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto If you’ve ever stood outside on a clear night, in a location far from city lights, consider yourself lucky. There are few things as majestic and awe-inspiring as a

As meteorologists, there are a “bag of questions” that we always receive from people in our public and professional lives. Some of these questions include: What channel are you on (only 8% or so of meteorologists are on TV)? What is the weather going to be tomorrow? Do you believe in climate change (science isn’t

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin With over 2 decades of Hubble observations, including in ultraviolet light, astronomers have newly… [+] revealed some striking features, including streaks (in blue) emerging from the lower-left lobe. These streaks are created when the star’s light rays poke through the dust clumps scattered along the bubble’s

Uni roe served atop rice in a simple and delicious dish. Sea urchin roe sushi, known as ‘uni’ is a … [+] delicacy served in sushi restaurants. It is bright orange or yellow-orange in color and has a soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture. Urchinomics Kelp forests are in danger of disappearing with purple sea urchins gobbling up

Spooky Action’s TeleLift “flying cell phone tower” drone flying on its tether during testing in … [+] Minnesota, USA. Spooky Action What did you do on your last long, boring summer? Minnesota-based engineer and entrepreneur Rahul Tiwari got bored – and two years later has a company called Spooky Action with the goal of providing

(Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co on Saturday said that an experimental cancer therapy it acquired as part of its $74 billion deal for Celgene Corp produced positive results in a clinical trial. FILE PHOTO: Logo of global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is pictured on the blouse of an employee in Le Passage, near Agen, France

Sunlight streaming through a forest of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, off Catalina Island, … [+] California, USA. (Photo by: David Fleetham/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images Scuba divers along the California coast have been watching the kelp forests steadily disappear for years, and everyone is pointing fingers at

(Reuters) – Nearly half of lymphoma patients treated with Gilead Sciences Inc’s Yescarta were alive at least three years after a one-time infusion of the CAR-T cell therapy, according to data presented on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: A Gilead Sciences, Inc. logo is seen outside the company headquarters in Foster City, California, U.S. May 1, 2018.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch harvest a crop of Mizuna mustard greens grown for … [+] the Veg-04B investigation, part of a phased research project to address the need for fresh food production in space. Credit: NASA If you’re an astronaut living on the International Space Station, you get regular shipments of freeze-dried

Takahashi’s daughter reported that he was re-reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time on … [+] the evening of his death. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemist Taro Takahashi, who helped discover the ocean’s vital role as a carbon sink, died on December 3, 2019 at the age of 89. Takahashi was born in Japan in

There is a large suite of scientific evidence that supports the picture of the expanding Universe… [+] and the Big Bang. But in a Universe with dark energy, objects lying at the greatest cosmic distances will actually appear larger than the same-sized objects that are closer. Here’s the counterintuitive science behind it. NASA / GSFC