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In Chicago, Proof Positive That Mentoring Decreases Youth Violence
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2012 CommentViolence kills more young people in Chicago than in any other city in America. Hope, though, may be on the horizon, thanks to an unusual violent crime study published recently.
A large social science research study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab, in partnership with Chicago Public Schools and local nonprofits, found that counseling and mentoring actually work. It's the first scientific evidence that a violence reduction program could actually lead to a significant decline in violent crime arrests among youths who participated in such a counseling and mentoring initiative.
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Spray-on Battery Technology Puts a Charge Into Energy Field
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2012 CommentImagine the day you'll be able to recharge your new mobile gadgets with the clothes you're wearing or even the paint on the gadgets themselves. That day may be closer than you think.
Several years ago, researchers began to study the world of ultra-thin batteries. Researchers at Stanford University announced in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009 that they'd created batteries made out of plain copier paper. The researchers used carbon nanotubes--an interconnected mesh of millions of fibers--to store energy and generate electricity.
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Thank Heavens for Innovation, From the Web to the Gridiron
Tweet Share on Facebook September 13, 2012 CommentInnovation happens when you least expect it.
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Coal Export Plan Goes Right Through Heart of Pacific Northwest
Tweet Share on Facebook September 4, 2012 CommentLet the coal transport wars begin.
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Economic Model Looks at History, Sees Victory Ahead for Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook August 28, 2012 CommentNever mind the media's current focus on campaign trail gaffes, tax returns, abortion, Medicare budget cuts, Obamacare, and the Republican Party's disdain for science in the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney will win because of underlying economic conditions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, two University of Colorado political scientists predict.
Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry have developed an economic and political forecasting model to analyze economic data from the 50 states and D.C. going back to 1980 in order to predict the presidential campaign winner. And, they say, their model predicts that Romney will win.
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No One Wins Game of Distracted Driving
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2012 CommentYou've been training for it all your life--playing games like Call of Duty or Super Mario Cart on your Xbox or Wii until all hours of the night. Now that you're an experienced video gamer, a wiz at incredible levels of onscreen multi-tasking, you believe you're clearly better at simultaneously driving a real car and talking on the phone than your average non-gamer grandmother in the seat next to you.
You'd be wrong.
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New Burst of Energy Could Bring Cold Fusion to Front Burner
Tweet Share on Facebook August 8, 2012 CommentAfter decades of wandering in the scientific wilderness, cold fusion may be returning to the land of the acceptable.
It's been more than 20 years since esteemed researchers Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann electrified the world with news that they'd observed low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENR, at the atomic level that generated excess heat, holding out the promise of "cold fusion" that did not require the blast furnace of nuclear fission as part of the energy-creating process.
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Study of Census Data Finds a Segregated America, Especially for Blacks
Tweet Share on Facebook July 24, 2012 CommentWhile some have called the 21st century the end of segregation in American society, new research comes to a very different conclusion.
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Report Suggests Social Environment's Outsized Role in Obesity
Tweet Share on Facebook July 11, 2012 CommentObesity is a global epidemic. The World Health Organization now places it as the world's leading non-communicable disease, ahead of even diabetes or cancer. And Americans are more obese than most.
Generally speaking, people believe that either genetics--if your mom or dad was obese, then you're likely to be as well--or personal choices are to blame. Most obesity researchers--and most diets--focus nearly exclusively on the individual and the daily food choices each of us makes.
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Unlimited Data Sharing, Storage Just a Flash of Light Away
Tweet Share on Facebook July 6, 2012 CommentIf two recent studies using some novel applications around the unique properties of light are any indication, we may be about to enter a brand-new era of data and communication. Limits on storage, data transfer, and information-sharing speed may simply vanish.
