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What if your doctor prescribed you a walk in the park instead of a pill? Doctors in San Mateo County are giving patients a prescription to spend time outdoors. The Park Rx program is getting patients back to health, by getting them back to nature.
Monday, the Scott County Sheriff's Office promoted a deputy who shot and killed a man at a traffic stop in 2018.
When Sci-Fi Predicts the Future—and When it Doesn’t June 3, 2021• Physics 14, 83 Breaking the laws of nature isn’t the only reason that some science fiction ideas never make it off the written page or out of a movie set. denisgo/stock.adobe.com Space elevators were the focal point of Arthur Clarke’s 1979 book The Fountains of Paradise. While scientifically possible, they are unlikely to become reality because of their huge cost. denisgo/stock.adobe.com Space elevators were the focal point of Arthur Clarke’s 1979 book The Fountains of Paradise. While scientifically poss...
A self-propelled particle trapped in a potential well defined by energy availability, has a unique swimming pattern that comes from hidden currents in the fluid in which it swims.
A porcelain breakfast service ordered by a marquess to honour Queen Victoria on her first visit to Scotland will go under the hammer next week. John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane, had the set of nearly 300 pieces made as part of a massive upgrading at Taymouth Castle in Perthshire ahead of the royal visit from September 7-10 1842. It is said that the young Queen Victoria was so charmed by what she saw at Taymouth with her consort Prince Albert that it confirmed her love of Scotland. The royal couple would go on to lease Balmoral Castle further north in Deeside in 1848 before buying it...