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Students join research team examining the COVID-19 pandemic in Centre County A blood sample is taken from a Data 4 Action Project participant to test for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. Antibodies detected in the blood indicate that the participant is likely to have been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in the past. Image: Dan Lesher Students join research team examining the COVID-19 pandemic in Centre County Maggie Ward January 08, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The coronavirus pandemic is impac...

Women who use marijuana could have a more difficult time conceiving a child than women who do not use marijuana, suggests a study by researchers at the

Date Time Racial disparities in excess mortality in Minnesota in 2020 are worse than previously reported Excess mortality – defined as deaths above what would be expected based on prior years – was worse in Minnesota in 2020 than expected, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the University of Minnesota. On the surface, Minnesota seems to have had a relatively equal COVID-19 pandemic compared to other states. For example, white Minnesotans are about 80% of th...

“Following a year where the federal government, for the first time, executed more people than all 50 states combined, there are three more federal executions scheduled this week,” said the bishops who chair the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

January 11, 2021 Each day, thousands of people across the U.S. receive their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccination. Health care providers and public health officials hope that the vaccines given now and, in the future, will help control the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.  However, as the nation begins to ramp up its vaccination rate, misinformation about the vaccines are spreading. University of Minnesota Professor Panayiota Kendeou and Associate Professor Emily Vraga, both co-authors on T...

 E-Mail We are fascinated by machines that can control cars, compose symphonies, or defeat people at chess, Go, or Jeopardy! While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI. Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it wo...

January 11, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com An online event later this month will feature a discussion with the pediatrician many people credit with helping expose the Flint water crisis. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s “What the Eyes Don’t See,” is an account of her discovery that Flint’s children were being poisoned by lead from the city’s drinking water. She was one of the first to question if lead was leaching from the city’s wat...

According to theoretical calculations of computer scientists, algorithms cannot contain a harmful artificial intelligence We are fascinated by...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Launch Of The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge January 11, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Bloomberg Philanthropies) NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the launch of the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, an innovation competition that will identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

Excellence in Innovative Service Katie Bark Katie Bark, project director of Montana Team Nutrition in the College of Education, Health and Human Development, has won the Excellence in Innovative Service Award, given to a professional employee who has demonstrated tangible innovation, broad impact on student experience and/or leadership through role modeling. The award comes with a $1,500 honorarium. Bark has served in her role as proje...