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Researchers find an amazing amount of often-weird forms of life below the planet’s surface. By Paul Ratner – Scientists found a rich ecosystem deep inside the planet. The “deep biosphere” contains mostly bacteria and microbes. The amount of life below the surface is …
Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.” By Stephen Johnson – David Attenborough spoke recently at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known …
By Rich Haridy – A new study suggests eating organic food may reduce a person’s cancer risk by up to 25 percent. (Credit: urban_light/Depositphotos). A new epidemiological study published in the prestigious journal JAMA Internal Medicine has found that people who eat a high …
Researchers find an unlikely source for the next superfood. By Paul Ratner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach. What’s four times more nutritious than cow’s milk and could be key in feeding our ever-expanding population? Chances are, your guess was not cockroach milk. But that’s exactly the …
For an affluent Western country, the United States has an usually high proportion of its people living in warm-to-tropical climates, which are breeding grounds for parasites. Daphne Muller – Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites Schistosomiasis and toxoplasmosis may sound like something you would pick up …
Moving from HOT to HAT, a dazzling new acoustic technology. By Robby Berman – Scientists announce the ability to simultaneously manipulate individual levitated objects. Using high-frequency sound waves may provide a safer alternative to laser microsurgery. Video of the research looks like a …
A new study from Nvidia researchers show just how far artificial image-generation technology has come in recent years. By Stephen Johnson – In 2014, researchers introduced a novel approach to generating artificial images through something called a generative adversarial network. Nvidia researchers combined …
Share this page Facebook Twitter Linked-In December 12, 2018 By Jennifer Leach, Acting Associate Director, Division of Consumer and Business Education, FTC The FTC is getting reports about people pretending to be from the Social Security Administration (SSA) who are trying to …
Posted on December 7, 2018 by Andrew Cannarsa, OIG Communications Director The Acting Inspector General of Social Security, Gale Stallworth Stone, is urging citizens to remain vigilant of telephone impersonation schemes that exploit the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) reputation and authority. The Office …
Humans evolved to live in the cold through a number of environmental and genetic factors. By Mike Colagrossi – According to some relatively new research, many of our early human cousins preceded Homo sapien migrations north by hundreds of thousands or even millions …
