Winners Participated in Year-Long Hackathon Series Using City Data to Create Sustainable Solutions for Pressing Urban Issues CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. After celebrating Earth Day earlier this week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced today the winners of the Chicago CleanWeb Challenge, a year-long competition launched in[Read More…]
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Senators Kirk, Durbin: BP Must Be a Better Neighbor to Lake Michigan, Chicago
Senators Met Today With BP America President John Minge to Discuss Last Month’s Oil Spill Into Lake Michigan at the Company’s Whiting, Ind., Refinery CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today met with BP America Chairman and President John Minge to voice serious concerns[Read More…]
Arizona Game and Fish Endorses Plan to Ramp Up Killing of Endangered Wolves
PHOENIX–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. The Arizona Game and Fish Commission unanimously endorsed a plan this week that will make it vastly easier to kill endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico and arbitrarily caps the number of wolves in both states at 300, allowing for a number as low[Read More…]
Commonly Available Blood-pressure Drug Prevents Epilepsy After Brain Injury
BERKELEY–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. Between 10 and 20 percent of all cases of epilepsy result from severe head injury, but a new drug promises to prevent post-traumatic seizures and may forestall further brain damage caused by seizures in those who already have epilepsy. A team of researchers from UC Berkeley, Ben-Gurion[Read More…]
Increasing Daily Coffee Consumption May Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. People who increased the amount of coffee they drank each day by more than one cup over a four-year period had a 11% lower risk for type 2 diabetes than those who made no changes to their coffee consumption, according to a new study led by[Read More…]
New Study Tells Nothing About Marijuana’s Role in Heart Disease
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 25, 2014. By Mitch Earleywine A new study on marijuana appeared in Journal of the American Heart Association. These are interesting data, but we have to interpret them very carefully. Sure, we know cannabis can raise heart rate briefly, but most users develop tolerance to the effect. We’ve[Read More…]
New Study Tells Nothing About Marijuana’s Role in Heart Disease
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 25, 2014. By Mitch Earleywine A new study on marijuana appeared in Journal of the American Heart Association. These are interesting data, but we have to interpret them very carefully. Sure, we know cannabis can raise heart rate briefly, but most users develop tolerance to the effect. We’ve[Read More…]
Laser-powered Farewell to Moon Mission
Laser from the Moon EU–(ENEWSPF)–25 April 2014. Just before NASA’s latest Moon mission ended last week, an ESA telescope received laser signals from the spacecraft, achieving data speeds like those used by many to watch movies at home via fibre-optic Internet. During an intense, three-day effort starting on 1 April,[Read More…]
NOAA Coast Survey Vessel Finds 19th Century Shipwreck off Golden Gate Bridge — Again
Predecessor agency first located ship in 1890, two years after it sank SS City of Chester. (Credit: San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park K01.2.571PL) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. NOAA announced it has found the underwater wreck of the passenger steamer City of Chester, which sank in 1888 in a collision[Read More…]
Astronomical Forensics Uncover Planetary Disks in NASA’s Hubble Archive
The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The illustration beneath each image depicts the orientation of the debris disks. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, R. Soummer, Ann Feild (STScI) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space[Read More…]
