Dick's Sporting Goods and The Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation announced a $25 million multi-year commitment to support youth athletic programs including donations to local sports teams and the launch of the Dick's Foundation's "Sports ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
(Phys.org) —Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials. The effect could harness the most useful characteristics from ...
A University of Maine professor helped develop an observation protocol that can document college instruction and student learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Michelle Smith, assistant professor in UMaine's ...
Tags: Observation protocol documents, college instruction, STEM learning
A new study in General Hospital Psychiatry finds patients visiting the hospital for a variety of ailments can be easily screened for depression and anxiety as they wait for care, information that can then be sent immediately to their doctor ...
Tags: Waiting room time, Depression, Anxiety
Bona US' first ever Certified Craftsman Convention will bring together businesses in the wood floor industry from across the country Feb. 20-22 in Denver. The event will kick-off on Thursday, Feb 20. with an opening keynote speech by former ...
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About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
In a recent early online edition of Nature Chemistry, ASU scientists, along with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory, have reported advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf. Designing an artificial leaf that uses ...
Tags: Chemicals, Nature Chemistry, Hydrogen
When an adolescent female patient comes to Nationwide Children's Hospital's Sports Medicine clinic, not only are these young women treated for their sports-related injury, but their sports medicine physician will also ask if they've missed ...
A recent study published in the journal Leisure Studies, 'iPod use and the perception of social introversion' by Benjamin R. Garner (University of Kansas), discusses the effects that iPod use has on society and social interaction. Garner ...
Tags: social introversion, speaker, potential isolating effects
THURSDAY Feb. 13, 2014, 2014 -- The increased risk of having a stroke or other blood-clotting problem might continue longer after a woman gives birth than previously believed, according to a new study. "Historically, six weeks was the ...
Tags: Stroke Risk, the risk of blood clots, venous thromboembolisms
Low-calorie sugars offer new way to solidify vegetable oils and gels Researchers at the City College of New York have reported the successful transformation of vegetables oils into a semi-solid form using low-calorie sugars as a ...
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Children from immigrant families now account for 42 percent of uninsured children in the United States, reports a study in the March issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer ...
Tags: Uninsured Children, Immigrant Family, Eligible Children
Although some advocates want to lower the legal drinking age from 21, research continues to show that the law saves lives. That's the finding of a new review published in a special supplemental issue to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and ...
Tags: Addiction, Drugs, Education, Public Health, Seniors
LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Kentucky heroin overdose deaths and emergency department visits increased from 2011 to 2012, while prescription painkiller overdoses dropped, officials say. A report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and ...
Babies that are delivered by caeserean section are more likely to become overweight or obese as adults, according to researchers from Imperial College, London Compared with vaginal delivery, C-section increases the odds of being ...