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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin portion of Texas and New Mexico's Permian Basin province contain an estimated mean of 46. [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. – In 2018, American children have been exposed to multiple disasters – ravaging wildfires in California, to major Hurricanes in Florida and the Carolinas, and mass shootings in schools and places of worship – all of which have been covered 24/7 by the media. Disaster communication experts at [...]

“Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. Observing a sampling of young stars in a star-forming region in the constellation Taurus, researchers found many of them to be surrounded by structures [...]

Electronic health records improve communication and access to patient data, but stress associated with using them can lead to doctor burnout, research suggests. The stress comes from having too little time for documentation, time spent at home managing records, and EHR user interfaces that aren't intuitive, a new study shows. [...]

New research shows how drones can greatly reduce the effort required to make realistic animated figures for movies and television. Computer scientist Tobias Nägeli is sure that drones are going to change the film industry in a major way. About a year ago, he showed that spectacular, highly technical film [...]

On November 30, 2018, Marriott announced that 500 million accounts had been hacked, the second-largest data compromise behind Yahoo's 2013 hack that exposed 3 billion accounts. “We are in the [cyber] arms race right now,” says Azer Bestavros, founder of Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational [...]

Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty years, the country has invested a lot in the agricultural sector and has been striving to be independent in its food supply. [...]