Toxic man-made chemicals – such as polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides – that are absorbed into the body and stored in fat may be released into the bloodstream during the rapid fat loss that follows bariatric surgery, according to a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The finding points […]
Former President Jimmy Carter is in the hospital again after falling and fracturing his pelvis Monday evening at his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanne Congileo described the fracture as minor. Her statement said the 95-year-old is in good spirits at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and is looking forward to recovering at home.
A popular agricultural pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children will no longer be sold in California starting in February, state officials announced. In conformity with this agreement, farmers will still be allowed to use the pesticide chlorpyrifos, but will have to stop at the end of 2020. If the manufacturer of
The Orlando Police Department is currently investigating actions taken by Dennis Turner, the school resource officer who arrested Kaia and an 8-year-old student in separate events on the same day last week. According to the policy, any arrests of minors under the age of 12 needs approval from a supervisor, which police say Turner did
On Sept. 12, the U.K.’s Department of Transport, Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) revealed in a new report that a Condor Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, in February was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot’s coffee was accidentally spilled on the plane’s aircraft control panel. The splatter caused an
Are AI hiring practices worth the hype and mystical aura? Researchers provide an overview of artificial intelligence in the workplace, provides practical to-dos for organizations considering AI tools for their hiring process, and explains how psychologists can help along the way. AI was voted the biggest trend by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
This week on Tuesday, Starhopper – the early test prototype of SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft, took its last flight into the South Texas skies, marking the fourth and final test jaunt. The flight lasted one minute and it took the prototype several hundred feet up and then flew it back down on a sideways translation
The skis above Bristol began to be full of color from yesterday, when the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta started at 06:30 BST with dozens of balloons heading over the city towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Over 140 hot air balloons from around the world have gathered at Europe’s largest annual hot air balloon meeting. Organizers
India has successfully launched a moon mission today, the aim is to soft land a rover on the moon – a time of reference for a nation that is trying to become a space superpower. The moon mission is called Chandrayaan-2, meaning ”moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, and it took off from the Satish Dhawan Space
The findings of researchers at Masaryk University’s Research Center for Neuroscience in the Czech Republic have found that the mental health of at least three generations of the same family could be affected. The researchers found that the relatives of concentration camp survivors had substantially less gray matter or neurons in the brain areas responsible
