A small study in 16 people with severe anorexia has found that implanting stimulation electrodes into the brains of patients could ease their anxiety and help them gain weight. Researchers found that in extreme cases of the eating disorder, the technique, known as deep brain stimulation (DBS), swiftly helped many …
your ad hereNY Times to Air TV Ad During Oscars for New ‘Truth’ Campaign
The New York Times will air its first TV ad in seven years on Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards on ABC, as the 166-year old newspaper looks to highlight independent journalism amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media as “fake news.” The Oscars are among the pricier …
your ad hereHome of America’s Space Program Offers So Much More
When people think of Cape Canaveral, Florida, they usually associate it with America’s space program. The Kennedy Space Center is where NASA launched the Saturn V rocket that put the first men on the moon in 1969. The real Florida Since then, the area has been the site of many …
your ad hereWhite House: Crackdown Likely on Recreational Marijuana
The Justice Department will step up enforcement of federal law against recreational marijuana, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday, offering the Trump administration’s strongest indication to date of a looming crackdown on the drug, even as a solid majority of Americans believe it should be legal. “I do believe …
your ad hereResearchers Treat Skin Infections with Personalized Cream
A new study showed that two antibiotics secreted by helpful skin bacteria kept harmful skin microbes at bay. The finding suggests people with skin infections may someday be able to treat them by applying a cream that contains antibiotics from “good” bacteria living on their skin. Skin is covered in …
your ad hereYoung Afghan Photographer’s Work Highlights Plight of Children, Women
At 21, Shagofa Alikozay is a bright woman who isn’t far removed from childhood in Afghanistan, which she illustrates with her photos, sketches and poetry. Her goal is to bring to light the challenges, problems and miseries of living in one of the world’s poorest countries, a place riven by …
your ad hereTop 5 Songs For Week Ending Feb. 25
We’re interacting with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending February 25, 2017. When an artist performs at the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards one week apart, good things tend to happen on the chart. Number 5: Machine Gun …
your ad here‘La La Land’ Has 2 Chances for Best Original Song Oscar
La La Land is up for a total of 14 Academy Awards on Sunday. The film has two chances of taking home the best original song award: for Ryan Gosling’s performance of “City of Stars” and for Emma Stone’s showpiece, “Audition (The Fools Who Dream).” Damien Chazelle, who is nominated …
your ad hereNew York Firm Makes New Oscars Using 3-D Technology
The original Oscar statue was hand carved by Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley. For decades the statuettes have been made by a Chicago trophy company and gold-plated. But last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided they wanted to return to the original bronze figure made using …
your ad hereScientists Turn to Chile’s Atacama Desert to Study Life on Mars
Astrobiologists seeking to understand where life might be found on Mars, and what form it might take, are finding that the Atacama desert in Chile, the driest in the world, may hold some important clues. Since a 2003 study that examined microbial life in the ‘Mars-like soils’ of the Atacama, …
your ad hereWill US Workers Have Right Skills for Jobs of the Future?
President Donald Trump told the heads of more than 20 of the largest U.S. manufacturers Thursday that he planned to bring millions of factory jobs back to the United States. Trump said the United States had lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement was …
your ad hereWHO: Depression Largest Cause of Disability Worldwide
More than 300 million people, or more than four percent of the global population, were living with depression in 2015 – an 18-percent increase over a 10-year period. New figures released Thursday by the World Health Organization show that depression was increasing worldwide and now was the leading cause …
your ad hereMnuchin Says Goal Is to Pass US Tax Reform by August
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday the administration is committed to getting major tax reform legislation through Congress by August. He predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic proposals will be able to boost growth significantly to annual rates above 3 percent. Mnuchin said that tax reform is the administration’s top …
your ad hereInvesting in Disaster Resilience Now ‘Mission Critical’ for Business
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Gillis, Ellis & Baker, a New Orleans-based insurance company, relocated from the battered, flooded city to nearby Baton Rouge so it could carry on serving its 4,000 clients, who all had at least one claim following the storm. Had it not been …
your ad hereTrump Vows Push to Bring Back Jobs Lost to Other Countries
U.S. President Donald Trump met Thursday with chief executives of some of the country’s biggest manufacturers, praising their efforts to add jobs in the U.S. and vowing to bring back jobs that corporate America has moved to other countries in search of cheaper labor. “My administration’s policies and …
your ad hereASA’s Jupiter-circling Spacecraft Stuck Making Long Laps
NASA’s Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves. It currently takes Juno 53 days to fly around the solar system’s biggest planet. That’s almost four times longer than the intended 14-day orbit. After repeated delays, NASA decided late last week to scrap …
your ad hereArctic ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Receives 50,000 New Deposits
Nearly 10 years after a “doomsday” seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world’s largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the …
your ad hereConstant Email, Text, Social Media Checks Lead to Stress
Nearly 90 percent of Americans say they “constantly or often” check their email, texts and social media accounts leading to increased stress, according to a report from the American Psychological Association (APA). Those who said they checked constantly showed, on average, higher stress levels than those who checked less often. …
your ad hereInfluence Game: GM Bill Self-driving and Self-interested
With states seizing the initiative on shaping the future of self-driving cars, General Motors is trying to persuade lawmakers across the country to approve rules that would benefit the automaker while potentially keeping its competitors off the road. The carmaker denies trying to freeze out other brands, but legislators in …
your ad hereINFLUENCE GAME: GM Bill Is Self-driving and Self-interested
With states seizing the initiative on shaping the future of self-driving cars, General Motors is trying to persuade lawmakers across the country to approve rules that would benefit the automaker while potentially keeping its competitors off the road. The carmaker denies trying to freeze out other brands, but legislators in …
your ad hereGoogle to Help Publishers Find Malicious Comments on Articles
Alphabet Inc’s Google and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites. The technology, called Perspective, will review comments and score them based on how similar they are to comments people said were “toxic” or likely to …
your ad hereTech Breakthroughs Take Backseat in Upcoming Apple iPhone Launch
When Apple Inc launches its much-anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone this fall, it will offer an unwitting lesson in how much the smartphone industry it pioneered has matured. The new iPhone is expected to include new features such as high-resolution displays, wireless charging and 3-D sensors. Rather than representing major breakthroughs, …
your ad hereActivists Urge Unilever to Press Myanmar, Help Rohingya
Activists are urging Unilever, a major investor in Myanmar, to speak out against the country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority, which the U.N. has said may be called “crimes against humanity.” More than 10,000 people have joined the Facebook group for the campaign, known by the #WeAreAllRohingyaNow, and hundreds have …
your ad hereCompany Towns Struggle to Reinvent Themselves After Company Leaves
Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis planned to open this year’s State of the City speech by thanking Caterpillar Inc. for its longtime commitment to the central Illinois town, declaring “We wouldn’t be Peoria without Caterpillar.” It’s been that way for decades in Peoria and in other company towns across the United …
your ad hereMoody’s Sticks to Initial Assessment of Trump, US Economy
Before Donald Trump won the November election, many analysts were sharply critical of his economic proposals. Some predicted big declines in financial markets, hiring slowdowns and a heightened risk of recession. But just a little more than a month since Trump became the 45th U.S. president, U.S. stocks have enjoyed …
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