WASHINGTON D.C.-Continuing his efforts to improve the lives of rural Alaskans, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich yesterday underscored the need to provide more tools to rural communities to combat some of the nation’s highest rates of substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and suicide.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA-Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a statement containing information from the Czech republic's State Office for Nuclear Safety. The statement announced that “very low levels of iodine-131 have been measured in the atmosphere†in recent days. Information has come from other European nations that they have registered small amounts of the radioactive […]
WASHINGTON — An international team of researchers funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will travel next month to one of Antarctica's most active, remote and harsh spots to determine how changes in the waters circulating under an active ice sheet are causing a glacier to accelerate and drain into the sea.
CHICAGO-Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.