Calculate your neighborhood"s "cognability"
Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age?.....»»
Understanding neighborhood dynamics associated with gun violence during COVID-19
A new study highlights neighborhood-level gun violence dynamics in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying statistical links between changes in shooting rates and levels of drug market and police activity. Nicole Johnson and Caterina R.....»»
Scientists Map the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky Way
A new simulation aims to determine whether the standard view of dark matter can explain how unique our galaxy’s neighborhood is......»»
Best hiking and trekking poles for any situation
Hitting the trails for the weekend or exploring a neighborhood park - each experience can be enhanced by a good set of hiking poles. There are so many different options out there: aluminum or carbon fiber shafts, cork or foam handles, and any numbe.....»»
The mega-comet hurtling through our solar system is 85, yes 85, miles wide
There are some bona fide behemoths sailing around the solar system.In 2021, astronomers identified a gargantuan comet — an ancient mass of ices, dust, and rocks — hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood. Fortunately, it won't come within.....»»
Engineers develop new software tool to aid material modeling research
A new software tool can accelerate materials science research by cutting out tedious background research on material properties. Researchers recently debuted propSym, an open-source software on the programming platform MATLAB, to calculate the fundam.....»»
Treasure in tree rings: Using untapped tree ring data to calculate carbon sequestration
Having a solid estimate of the amount of carbon that forests can pull from the atmosphere is essential for global accounting of climate change—leaders are counting on forests to pull a good chunk of human-produced carbon back to earth. But in reali.....»»
Fake poop helps evicted owls settle into new neighborhood
Settling into a new home can be tough for anyone. So scientists have come up with some tricks to make transplanted burrowing owls feel like they are not alone in their new digs, playing owl sounds and scattering fake poop......»»
A mathematical approach to protecting endangered plants
In a new study published in the journal Ecological Modelling, a team of researchers led by Benito Chen-Charpentier, professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Arlington, devises a mathematical model to calculate the minimum habitat size f.....»»
MIT Is Working On An All-In-One Approach To Diabetes Treatment
MIT, Brigham, and Women's Hospital researchers are working to eliminate many of the headaches associated with treating diabetes. According to Engadget, "They're developing all-in-one devices that measure glucose, calculate the necessary insulin dose.....»»
Los Angeles weighs phasing out oil and gas drilling
The University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles has a lot in common with urban areas across the U.S.: A dense population with lots of businesses and housing. A cluster of car dealerships. A row of restaurants. Schools and a community center......»»
For the first time, scientists rigorously calculate three-particle scattering from theory
The goal of nuclear physics is to describe all matter from its simplest building blocks: quarks and gluons. Found deep inside protons and neutrons, quarks and gluons also combine in less common configurations to make other subatomic particles of mat.....»»
Looking up at the asteroids in the neighborhood
Asteroids fly through our solar system all the time, but it's rare for us to take notice of them. But that's changed this week, as an asteroid passes within 1,231,184 miles of Earth on January 18. The asteroid, dubbed 7482 (1994 PC1), was first seen.....»»
Study finds neighborhood environment is a key to injury recovery for Black men
Black men are disproportionately impacted by injuries in the United States. This disparity is glaring given that injury is one of the top ten causes of death. Data show that injured Black men from disadvantaged neighborhoods experience higher injury.....»»
This map IDs cancer-causing chemical sites in your neighborhood
Just how toxic is your community?.....»»
Tree growth response to soil nutrients and neighborhood crowding varies between mycorrhizal types
Tree growth is an important part of forest dynamics, the symbiosis between trees and mycorrhizal fungi (e.g., arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM), ectomycorrhizal (EM) and dual-mycorrhizal (AEM)) can improve species ability to absorb nutrients and adapt to t.....»»
The World Is Messy. Idealizations Make the Physics Simple
Even ordinary actions, like tossing a tennis ball, can be extraordinarily complex to calculate. The trick is knowing what to leave out......»»
Scientists calculate how carbon nanotubes and their fibers experience fatigue
Up here in the macro world, we all feel fatigue now and then. It's the same for bundles of carbon nanotubes, no matter how perfect their individual components are......»»
NASA"s "Eyes on Asteroids" tool reveals near-Earth object neighborhood
Through a new 3D real-time visualization tool, you can now explore the asteroids and comets that approach Earth's orbital neighborhood—and the spacecraft that visit these objects—with a click or a swipe. NASA's Eyes on Asteroids brings this data.....»»
NFT Art Collectors Are Playing a Risky Game—And Winning
In Miami, the next generation of art collection showed its colors Behind the high white walls of a nondescript single-story building in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, past the velvet ropes and ticket-checkers, and through a hallway f.....»»
In the neighborhood of microalgae, location is key to bacterial carbon use
Microscopic algae are responsible for half of the global atmospheric carbon fixed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and may be used as a sustainable bioenergy source......»»