lslatton Apparent meteor flashes across night sky in St. Louis area, seen in 8 states, including in Chicago areaChicago TribuneAn apparent meteor brightened the night sky Monday over the Midwest, with numerous reports in eight states, centered around St. Louis and including the Chicago area. The National Weather Service posted
lslattonSolar System Scientists are pushing space agencies around the world to send missions to MercuryAxios - Miriam Kramer Scientists are pushing space agencies around the world to send dedicated missions to the small, relatively unexplored planet Mercury. Why it matters: …
lslattonNews Deadly Pig Disease Sparks Fear of a Heart Drug ShortageBloomberg - Jason Gale With African swine fever wiping out a quarter of the world’s pigs, primarily in China, doctors and drugmakers around the world are sounding the alarm …
lslattonSolar System We know the effects of the planets spinning, but why do they do it?discovermagazine.com Q: Why do planets rotate? I have been told the effects of their spinning, but never why they spin in the first place. — Carson Lee Fifer Jr., …
lslattonScience Engineer Finds Way to Pull Diseases From Blood Using Magnetsfuturism.com - Kristin Houser "In theory, you can go after almost anything. Poisons, pathogens, viruses, bacteria..." A British engineer has found a way to filter unwanted cells …
lslattonScience Arizona’s water supplies are drying up. How will its farmers survive?National Geographic - Stephen R. MillerAs the mighty Colorado River dwindles and cropland dries out, farming families face a grim choice: give up or somehow adapt. You could almost visit Arizona without noticing it was a farming state. If flew
lslattonClimate Change Scientists looked 125,000 years into the past. The results are terrifying.Inverse - The Conversation This could have huge implications for coastal communities and infrastructure in the future. Sea levels rose 10 meters above present levels during …
lslatton The Curiosity rover detects oxygen behaving strangely on MarsCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Since it landed in Gale Crater in 2012, the Curiosity rover has been studying the Martian surface beneath its wheels to learn more about the planet's history. But Curiosity also stuck its nose
lslattonSpace A Star Ejected from the Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Has Reached a Mind-Blowing Speedspace.com - Chelsea Gohd As humankind's ancestors were learning to walk upright, a star was launched out of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy at a …
lslattonU.S. Politics Pregnant people are being offered an unproven treatment to “reverse” abortionsVox - Anna North“Even if you’ve taken the abortion pill, you can still change your mind,” proclaims the website of a group called Alternatives Pregnancy Center. The center offers what it calls “abortion pill reversal,”
lslattonNews Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at World Court:...Reuters - Stephanie van den BergTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - Gambia said on Monday it had filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, drawing praise
lslattonContraception The Morning-After Pill Wasn’t Meant to Be a 'Plan B'. What Happened?VICE - Rose StokesOnce something traumatic happens to you, it’s easy to go fling yourself down a rabbit hole, trying to understand it from every angle. When I used the morning-after pill once and it didn’t work, I wanted
lslattonMaine Maine's Shrimp Crisis Reveals A Big Climate Change Problem We're Not Talking AboutHuffPost - Alexander C. KaufmanAs global temperatures rise, plans for dealing with the climate crisis are all but silent on the oceans and the plight of the coastal seafood industry. CUNDYS HARBOR, Maine ― When winter fell on this wooded
lslattonPhysics Protons are smaller than we thought (and that’s a big deal)futurity.org - Karl Bates-Duke Protons, the little positively-charged nuggets inside an atoms, are fractions of a quadrillionth of a meter smaller than anyone thought, according to …
lslattonAncient History Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth Large Mummy Thought to Be a Lionhaaretz.com - The Associated Press Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says local archeologists have unearthed the mummy of an unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness. The …
lslattonArtificial Intelligence AI can predict if you'll die soon – but we've no idea how it works | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Donna Lu Artificial intelligence can predict a person’s chances of dying within a year by looking at heart test results – even when they look normal to …
lslattonMolecular Biology What will designer babies look like in the future?DAZED - Amelia AbrahamSci-fi has always loved the fantasy of a superior race of genetically engineered humans. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is the 1931 dystopian novel set in 2540, imagining a society of people who are in
lslattonGreen Living Everyone needs to stop building giant glass skyscrapers right nowWired UK - Sophia Epstein Two cars, a lemon, and a bottle of Lucozade: just a few of the objects that have been melted by London’s Walkie Talkie building. But the heat …
lslattonArtificial Intelligence 13 Mind-Blowing Things Artificial Intelligence Can Already Do TodayForbes - Bernard MarrBy now, most of us are aware of artificial intelligence (AI) being an increasingly present part of our everyday lives. But, many of us would be quite surprised to learn of some of the skills AI already
lslattonGalaxies There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant StructuresVICE - Becky FerreiraThe Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is one of hundreds of billions of galaxies strewn across the universe. Their variety is stunning: spirals, ring galaxies shaped like star-studded loops, and ancient
lslattonItalian Politics How the megacities of Europe stole a continent’s wealthThe Guardian - Julian ComanWhile hi-tech cosmopolitan centres like Milan flourish financially and culturally, former industrial towns continue to decline Night-time haunts go in and out of fashion, but the Bar Basso in Milan, which
lslattonMoon Why is the Moon sometimes visible during the day?sciencefocus.com - Dr Alastair Gunn In fact, the Moon is visible in daylight almost every day. The Earth’s daily revolution on its axis means that the Moon is actually above the horizon …
lslattonGenetics Waiting For The ‘Sign’ that Protections Are Needed For Genetic Data? Here It Is.Forbes - Ellen MatloffI just attended the National Society of Genetic Counselors Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT where I met some of the brightest minds in genetics, heard about mind-bending new technologies, and was of
lslattonNews Teenage girl charged with murder after police say she tied down and killed an animal rescue advocateCNN - By Eric Levenson and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN(CNN) — A 14-year-old girl was arrested and charged with murder after police say she tied down and killed a 59-year-old Philadelphia man known for his animal rescue efforts. Philadelphia police said responded
lslattonHumanity Humans are extremely likely to go extinct, and it looks like we don’t even careSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Dinosaurs. Woolly mammoths. The dodo. Humans could end up having something in common with them, and doomsday might happen sooner than you can imagine. …
lslattonBoise State University ‘Go back to California’: Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in BoiseLos Angeles Times - Maria L. La GangaThis city sure knows how to roll up the welcome mat — that is, if you happen to move here from California. Just consider last week’s mayoral election. It was the most competitive race in recent memory,
lslattonWildlife Endangered Shark Gives Rare "Virgin Birth"National GeographicJan. 18, 2017 - A captive female zebra shark in Australia didn't let the lack of a male shark stop her from having pups. Three years after being separated from her mate, Leonie laid eggs that hatched sharks.
lslattonNews Coast Guard suspends search for missing airman who fell into Gulf of Mexico from C-130 aircraftFox News - Morgan PhillipsThe U.S. Coast Guard announced late Friday it had suspended its search for an airman who fell into the Gulf of Mexico from a C-130 aircraft. The airman fell 1,500 feet out of the plane Tuesday morning
lslattonLoans A $45,000 Loan for a $27,000 Ride: More Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car LoansThe Wall Street Journal. - AnnaMaria AndriotisJohn Schricker took out a loan to buy a car in 2017. Then he took out another. And then another. In two years, the 40-year-old electrician signed up for four auto loans, each time trading in the previous
