Researchers also find zebra finches 20% less likely to hatch from eggs if exposed to noise pollutionNoise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found.Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long-term negative effects on their health, growth and reproduction, the study found. Continue reading
Women have better survival rates and lower hospital readmission rates when treated by female physicians, a new study found.
With a federal subsidy that has provided less expensive or free broadband internet to more than 23 million American households due to run out of money by the end of May, a new University of Massachusetts Amherst study reveals that direct-to-consumer subsidies can be far more effective at connecting households to high-speed internet than expanding broadband infrastructure.
A provocative fresh study has unearthed a correlation between left-wing convictions and both elevated intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers thought to be linked with heightened intelligence. As elucidated by psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in their novel paper, published in the journal Intelligence, a plethora of intelligence assessments revealed […]
Recent revelations from the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University have unveiled the playful antics of bumblebees.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Macon man with murder. Bibb County investigators arrested 29-year-old Travion Lorenzo Veal for the death of 34-year-old Joshua Owen Negri on April 25. Investigators say they were able to identify Veal in connection with the overdose (Fentanyl) death of Negri. He was already in the Bibb County Jail
The Bird Flu threat may be easing up on U.S. diary products.
Judge coroner highlights failings that contributed to three victims being killed by Khairi Saadallah in 2020The deaths of three people during a terror attack in Reading were avoidable, an inquest has determined.A judge coroner sitting at the Old Bailey on Friday said failings in intelligence sharing and in providing psychiatric care contributed to the failure to prevent the attack that took the lives of James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett in June 2020. Continue reading
As human life expectancy has improved over the decades, the age that we think of as "old" has pushed back later in life, researchers say.
Early results from a study of the April 8 total solar eclipse show a more noticeable effect on bird behavior than during the last eclipse.
The bodies of an 85-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife were found under their light truck in a mountainous area of Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture, on Saturday night. Police said it appeared the couple, Tadashi Yamane and his wife Makiko, were crushed to death by the truck, NHK reported. The bodies
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have confirmed the first known case of a walrus dying from bird flu in the Arctic.