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Growing tomatoes at home can significantly reduce your environmental impact and make your next salad more affordable. Commercially produced tomatoes have a carbon footprint of approximately 0.82 kg (1.8 lbs) of CO₂ equivalent per...

1. Introduction Water supply systems are frequently subject to various failures that degrade service quality and cause complete disruptions in supply to consumers [1]. In this context, decision-makers managing and planning water distribution networks...

Chris Wright, a Colorado fracking executive, was confirmed on Monday by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 59 to 38 to become the Secretary of Energy. Wright’s nomination hearing, held last month before...

There is growing evidence that the environment plays an important role in mental health. Yet, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), research into the effects of environmental stressors rarely...

Nothing kills the romance like repetition and predictability. Why then, do so many guys gift the same mundane tokens of affection year after year? (Hint: dinner, roses, and chocolates are so 1999.) If you’re...

1. Introduction When a data set includes repeated measures, i.e., multiple measurements taken for each person, estimating a correlation between two variables requires separation of variance within and across persons. This is necessary because...

Inhaling unfragmented hyaluronan improved lung function in patients suffering from severe episodes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to NIEHS researchers and their collaborators. Hyaluronan, a sugar secreted by living tissue that acts...

The pathology and diagnosis of gynecological diseases encompass many different organs (breasts, uterus, ovaries, salpinx, peritoneum, and placenta) and benign or malignant diseases. As regards breast cancer, in the last few years, the use...

Three women, all scientists in the NIEHS Division of the National Toxicology Program (DNTP), have been elected to leadership positions in prominent scientific organizations. March is Women’s History Month, and a great time to...

1. Introduction The ED problem involves the optimal allocation of load among the generating units of a power system to minimize fuel costs over a given time period (typically one hour) while respecting the...