To All Democrats and Independents Who Garden . . . LISTEN UP: If Miracle Gro Votes with its Wallet, So Should The Rest of Us MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. Long miffed by what he considers to be the nuisance of environmental safety regulation, Scotts Miracle Gro Czar Jim Hagedorn is voting[Read More…]
Science
New Process Developed at MIT Could Enable Better LED Displays, Solar Cells and Biosensors — and Foster Basic Physics Research
Cambridge, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. Films made of semiconductor nanocrystals — tiny crystals measuring just a few billionths of a meter across — are seen as a promising new material for a wide range of applications. Nanocrystals could be used in electronic or photonic circuits, detectors for biomolecules, or the glowing[Read More…]
Illinois Health Department Confirms Additional H3N2v Influenza Cases
Common flu precautions recommended SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) laboratory has confirmed a total of three cases of what is known as the H3N2v influenza virus. IDPH is working with local, state and federal health officials to reduce the spread of this virus, but additional[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood Announces Expansion of Breast Health Program
Program to help more women detect breast cancer sooner was made possible by public donations during Komen controversy earlier this year New York, N.Y.–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading women’s health care provider and advocate, announced today that it is expanding its breast health education, outreach, and services[Read More…]
Safer Options Available for Tackling West Nile Virus Mosquito Management
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. Given the number of Wile Nile virus (WNv) cases, including 26 deaths, it is important to focus attention on mosquito management methods that are the most effective and do not introduce additional short- and long-term public health hazards with the use of toxic pesticides, public health[Read More…]
Giant Galaxy Cluster Sets Record Pace For Creating Stars
The Phoenix Cluster, shown here as it appears in microwave (orange), optical (red, green and blue) and ultraviolet (blue) wavelengths, is forming stars at the highest rate ever observed for the middle of a galaxy cluster. A collaboration of astronomers from UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and elsewhere discovered[Read More…]
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s LAMP spectrometer detects helium in Moon’s atmosphere
The Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard LRO uses a novel method to peer into the perpetual darkness of the Moon’s so-called permanently shadowed regions. LAMP “sees” the lunar surface using the ultraviolet light from nearby space and stars, which bathes all bodies in space in a soft glow of[Read More…]
Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars
An extraordinary galaxy cluster, known officially as SPT-CLJ2344-4243, was recently discovered. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/M.McDonald; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M.McDonald; Optical: AURA/NOAO/CTIO/MIT/M.McDonald; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss) Washington-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA’s[Read More…]
OPINION: Rep. Ryan’s Budget Plan Is ‘Path to the Poorhouse’ For Senior Citizens
ENEWSPF’s Associate Editor Rosemary Piser request that this piece be added as a blog entry. I strongly encourage readers to click through and read the entire piece. As Rosemary said in her email to me, "Wendell Potter from the Center for Public Integrity wrote a great article about the reality[Read More…]
Preschool Children at Risk for Stress After Seeing Domestic Violence and Another Traumatic Event
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2012. Preschool children exposed to domestic violence and additional traumatic events are at increased risk for developing traumatic stress disorder, a new University of Michigan study shows. Researchers sampled 120 children between ages 4-6 who were exposed to domestic violence in the past two years. About[Read More…]
