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Find out how plastic patients help nursing students
This semester, nursing students at UNC-Greensboro will be introduced to a new patient: a plastic mom dubbed by the manufacturer as “SimMom.”
How climate change affects your health
How climate change affects your health
August 23, 2017
Rising temperatures, melting ice, extreme weather and rising sea levels are probably the first things that pop into your head when you hear “climate change.” Climate change, however, has some other, less known effects.
Duke engineers create a new algorithm that fixes shaky video
Duke engineers create a new algorithm that fixes shaky video
August 21, 2017
Did you miss the eclipse? Here are the next ones this century
Maybe you didn't hear about the August 21 solar eclipse in time to prepare. Maybe you were stuck inside the entire day. Maybe you just did’t care at the time—I won’t judge. The reality is there have been solar eclipses throughout history and there are more to come.
In babies, crucial neural connections happen before age three
Though we weren’t aware of it, our brain was growing explosively in the first few years of our lives. From birth to age three, babies gain more than a million neural connections every second. This crucial period of brain formation will affect how a person learns, communicates and behaves for the rest of their lives.
The brain is made up of neurons, specialized cells that send messages to the rest of the body. Every new experience and memory creates connections between neurons, or synapses. These connections enable basic brain functions.
Southwestern CC teams with NASA for balloon study
It’s going to start getting dark in Sylva, NC, just after noon on August 21, 2017.
That’s because Sylva lies directly in the path of a once-in-a-generation natural phenomenon that will blanket the area in daytime darkness. A total solar eclipse will track across the contiguous (lower 48) United States for the first time since 1979. The last time Jackson County fell in the path of what scientists call “totality” was in the year 1506; the next total solar eclipse won’t cast a shadow on Jackson County until 2153.
Urban Warming Could Spell Trouble for Backyard Bees
Urban Warming Could Spell Trouble for Backyard Bees
August 1, 2017
Summer is here and like every summer, the temperature outside is punishingly hot.
In the Search for a Better World, There are No Morality Pills Yet
In the Search for a Better World, There Are No Morality Pills Yet
August 1, 2017
Start messing with how people think, or retuning their moral compass and people naturally get uneasy.
Exercise Burns Bone Marrow Fat, Supports Strong Bones
Exercise Burns Bone Marrow Fat, Supports Strong Bones
July 31, 2017
Think back to every diet, home exercise or gym membership commercial you have ever seen. They all tend to focus on one thing: burning fat. And as they do, they show pictures of legs, waists, midsections and all the other places people know and see that we build fat when we take in more calories than we burn.