Day August 8, 2018

IMAGE: The way force is applied to suspects has significantly eroded trust between law enforcement and the public whom they serve, Menifield says. view more  Credit: Amanda Brown Killings of unarmed black men by white police officers across the nation have…

IMAGE: On Aug. 8 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (1440 UTC) NASA’s Terra satellite found coldest temperatures of strongest thunderstorms (yellow) in Tropical Storm Yagi were as cold as or colder than… view more  Credit: Credits: NRL/NASA Tropical Storm Yagi was experiencing…

IMAGE: This composite image offers a glimpse inside the custom-designed molecular beam epitaxy system that the Brookhaven physicists use to create single-crystal thin films for studying the properties of superconducting cuprates…. view more  Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY–What happens when…

IMAGE: Divers using the Super Sucker to manually remove Eucheuma clade (algae; left) and outplanting juvenile Tripneustes gratilla (urchins; right). view more  Credit: DLNR/DAR Researchers with the State of Hawai’i Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) and the Hawai’i Institute of Marine…

IMAGE: Dr. Lequerica, senior research scientist in TBI Research at Kessler Foundation, is an investigator with the Northern New Jersey TBI Model System. view more  Credit: Kessler Foundation Model system researchers have examined the factors that influence productive activity one year…

IMAGE: GPM flew over John at 2:59 a.m. EDT (0659 UTC) on Aug. 8. At that time John’s maximum sustained wind speeds had started to decrease. GPM saw most of John’s… view more  Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce The Global Precipitation…

“Safe consumption sites,” where people can use pre-obtained drugs with medically trained personnel on hand to treat overdoses, garner higher public support when they are called “overdose prevention sites,” according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg…

The rarity of appendix cancer, accounting for less than 1 percent of tumors that originate in the gastrointestinal tract, and the lack of scientific data for this disease means that current treatment guidelines recommend applying therapies to people with appendix…

Scripps Research scientists have developed a powerful new strategy for synthesizing molecular skeletons of chemicals used in drugs and other important products, a technique that provides unprecedented flexibility and control over chemical synthesis, according to a paper published July 30…

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Exercise can help prevent relapses into cocaine addiction, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo’s Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD. “Cocaine addiction is often characterized by cycles of recovery and relapse, with stress and negative…