Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row according to the CDC. While vaccinations remain high, coverage has dropped from 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 94% in 2020-2021 to 93% in 2021-2022, leaving at least 250,000 potentially unprotected against measles. statnews.com Submitted by shiruken t3_10azjzs on January 13, 2023 at 5:02 PM in science No comments 2
Earth's inner core seems to be slowing its spin according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The study authors suggest this might be part of an approximately 70-year cycle where the core speeds up and slows down relative to the rest of the planet. washingtonpost.com Submitted by shiruken t3_10jp1xi on January 23, 2023 at 10:08 PM in science 119 comments 1,149
Dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share between 2008 to 2020 according to Tufts University. While they still represent a small fraction of national household food purchases, they play an increasingly prominent role for disadvantaged and rural communities. now.tufts.edu Submitted by shiruken t3_10ithmx on January 22, 2023 at 8:35 PM in science 171 comments 3,799
The bivalent mRNA boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were 48% effective against symptomatic infection from the predominant omicron subvariant (XBB/XBB.1.5) in persons aged 18-49 years according to early data published by the CDC nbcnews.com Submitted by shiruken t3_10lcgah on January 25, 2023 at 10:58 PM in science 75 comments 337
The implementation of a soft drinks industry levy in the UK in 2018 was associated with an 8% reduction in obesity among 10-11 year old girls with the greatest reductions seen in those living in the most deprived areas. No such association was found in 10-11 year old boys or younger children. cam.ac.uk Submitted by shiruken t3_10m3606 on January 26, 2023 at 9:33 PM in science 64 comments 2,220
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022: Awarded jointly to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig "for research on banks and financial crises" Submitted by shiruken t3_y0g3az on October 10, 2022 at 2:24 PM in science 6 comments 16
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022: Awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry" Submitted by shiruken t3_xwaecq on October 5, 2022 at 1:15 PM in science 17 comments 92
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022: Awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science" Submitted by shiruken t3_xvga2t on October 4, 2022 at 2:16 PM in science 12 comments 66
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022: Awarded to Svante Pääbo "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" Submitted by shiruken t3_xukw02 on October 3, 2022 at 2:24 PM in science 9 comments 105