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 …
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. Evan Fleischer – David Vaughan at the Mote Laboratory is growing coral 40 times faster than in the wild. It typically takes coral 25 to 75 years …
Nick Lavars – A new study has found microplastics in the guts of 102 sea turtles. (Credit: lilithlita/Depositphotos). There remains a lot we don’t know about the whereabouts of the all the plastic waste that washes into the ocean each year, but …
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.” By Robby Berman – A stream of galactic debris is hurtling at us, pulling dark matter along with it It’s traveling so quickly it’s been described as a hurricane of dark matter Scientists are …
Domestic nuclear testing wreaked havoc on thousands of families. By Matthew Davis – Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001 – Wikipedia. Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. But new research shows that domestic U.S. nuclear tests likely killed more. The new research tracked …
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Rich Haridy – Surftopia by Eduardo Camarena Estébanez and María Urigoitia Villanueva received Special Recognition in this year’s Laka Competition. (Credit: Eduardo Camarena Estébanez / María Urigoitia Villanueva). The winners of the 2018 Laka Competition have been revealed, collecting an exciting array of strange and …
Michael Irving – A new hybrid device could use artificial photosynthesis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and capture some of the excess energy as electricity. (Credit: Sashkin7/Depositphotos). One of the main methods of producing hydrogen for fuel cells is to …
