Surveillance shows sustained community transmission already under way in the south and mountain west. Health officials still recommend vaccination, and are clear about what a partial match does and does not do.
23 hours agoThey are not filming the tornado. They are trying to place instruments in its path, which means being close enough to matter and far enough to leave.
2 days agoA four-year study of 61 districts found the sleep gain persisted and did not come at the cost of bedtime drift. Attendance improved slightly; test scores did not move.
2 days agoThe payload must reach a specific orbital plane at a specific local solar time. That leaves a launch opportunity of eleven minutes a day — and weather has cooperated on none of them.
Aug 21Average tornado warning lead time is now about 17 minutes. Research on what people do in those minutes finds most spend the first several seeking a second confirmation.
Aug 20A pooled analysis of 27 cohort studies found most of the reduction in mortality risk arrives between 2,000 and 7,000 steps a day. The famous target came from a 1960s marketing campaign.
Aug 20A study of 214 schools that locked phones away found no measurable change in standardized results. Disciplinary referrals fell by a fifth and reported loneliness fell in every grade.
Aug 19Thirty years of measurements from one of the longest-running Arctic monitoring sites will continue two kilometres away, on bedrock. Relocating it means a gap in a record that has no substitute.
Aug 18We have optimized every interface for engagement and then been surprised that engagement is what we get. The interesting question is not why we cannot focus, but what we are focusing on instead.
Aug 18Forecasters put the odds at about 62%. In weak events, the classic pattern shows up less than half the time, which makes the seasonal outlook considerably less useful than the label suggests.
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