LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It's Primary Election Day 2024 and federal, state, and county races are on the ballots. In many races, candidates are running unopposed. Voters in Luzerne County voted on a referendum question regarding a government study commission. Voter turnout is traditionally low in primary elections and the same is true this year. []
HARLINGEN, TEXAS (ValleyCentral) — Local veterans are welcoming a study from the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley about chronic pain treatment. The study was funded by a $500,000 grant from the Trauma Research and Combat Care Casualty Collective and will look into how to treat extreme pain without opioids in hopes of a []
Field observations have revealed that highly stressed D-shape tunnels experience sidewall rockburst triggered by impact loads stemming from rock blasting or other mining-related dynamic disturbances.
Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would be considered to have a genetically caused form of the disease. Currently, the vast majority of Alzheimer’s cases do not have a clearly identified cause. The new designation, proposed in a study published Monday, could broaden the scope of efforts to develop treatments, including gene therapy, and affect the design of clinical trials. It could also mean that...
To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new study conducted by a Dutch-Chinese team of researchers and published in Nature Geoscience.
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have explored a nearby binary stellar system composed of two M dwarfs, known as LP 349−25AB. Results of the study, presented April 25 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this system, suggesting that one of its components may be a brown dwarf.
Feel like you’re struggling to save money? A new report suggests it could be because of where you live.
Menopause affects many aspects of wellness, but the narrative around previous research scared a lot of women away from an effective therapy that relieves symptoms.
Research linked appeal of loud exhausts to dark personality traits associated with criminal attitudes
A recent report authored by the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies notes that although inclusionary zoning can help increase housing for low-income families, the mandates also suppress overall housing production if taken too far.
More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in declineBumblebee nests may be overheating, killing off broods and placing one of the Earth’s critical pollinators in decline as temperatures rise, new research has found.Around the world, many species of Bombus, or bumblebee, have suffered population declines due to global heating, the research said. Bumblebee colonies are known for their ability to thermoregulate: in hot...
It is well-established that people hold "self-servingly" biased beliefs about their own personal traits and abilities that help bolster their self-esteem.