UCLA-designed program helps former inmates with HIV maintain health after release from jail
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Los Angeles, California - After years of public health efforts, health care at the Los Angeles County Jail has significantly improved, and the facility now typically provides full access to treatment for inmates who have HIV - including medications that keep their disease in check.
Scientists report first results from CUORE neutrino experiment
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics’ most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter?
NASA Invests in Shapeshifters, Biobots, Other Visionary Technology
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Washington, DC - NASA is investing in technology concepts that include meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms, and small orbital debris mapping technologies that may one day be used for future space exploration missions.
New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us
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Greenbelt, Maryland - The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems. A new study by a team including astrophysicists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, calculated how this visitor from outside our solar system fits into what we know about how planets, asteroids and comets form.
NASA Visualizes the Dance of a Melting Snowflake
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Pasadena, California - NASA has produced the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere. Developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the model provides a better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the signature in radar signals of heavier, wetter snow -- the kind that breaks power lines and tree limbs -- and could be a step toward improving predictions of this hazard.
American Heart Association sends Arnold Schwarzenegger wishes for a speedy recovery following emergency heart surgery
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Dallas, Texas - The American Heart Association is sending actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger best wishes, following media reports that he has undergone emergency open-heart surgery due to complications from another procedure.
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