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Corrine, a high school student, talks to her friends about going tanning at a local tanning salon after school. She uses the tanning salon between two to four times a week. She knows the risks, but they do not seem harmful to her now.      The International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), an agency...

For many years, the sun’s damaging effects on the skin have been common knowledge.  But much more recently, scientists have linked sun damage to major eye ailments and diseases such as eyelid cancers and cataracts. A recent discovery, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation, suggests that ultraviolet (UV) rays may also play a major role in macular degeneration,...

Teens Compete at the Second Annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee. What's a Brain Bee? SciJourner Reporter David Hoffelmeyer investigates.    Brain Bee Competition from SciJourner on Vimeo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License   David Hoffelmeyer

Feeling stressed? Feeling awkward in social situations? Try falling in love. Scientists are finding that chemicals released in the body when someone falls in love may be the key to helping those who have psychological disorders. According to Web MD, neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin and hormones, such as adrenaline and more importantly oxytocin, are released into the...

Law enforcement officers and most adults have trouble distinguishing between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, according to research conducted at Tuscumbia High School. The study shows that there are many beverages on the market that are extremely deceptive. Do people know what they are actually drinking? And if they do, are they trying to hide it from their parents...

Pick up any sports magazine and you will find countless advertisements for protein supplements, shakes, and bars. These ads have flashy logos to catch athletes’ attention and claim that their products increase energy and stamina, build muscle faster, and reduce soreness with no harm to the user. While most of these supplements are marketed toward adults, many...

Outreach, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide water, food, medicine and education to places in need all over the world, began as a simple mission. Katheryn Hamilton told her husband, Floyd Hammer, that she would like to travel to Tanzania in Africa to build a hospital for the local villagers. Hammer came...

Despite opposition from local environmental groups concerned that the development of a 400-acre coal ash landfill at the Labadie Power Plant, located 45 minutes outside of St. Louis and next to the Missouri River, could lead to groundwater contamination, AmerenUE is continuing to pursue development. The landfill will give the Labadie Power Plant, a low-sulfur...

On January 28, 2011, breast cancer hit home for me. My mother, a 39-year-old working, middle-class woman, sat my siblings and me down to tell us that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. My family was speechless. We could not believe that this could happen in our family, but it did. According to the National Cancer...

The final NASA shuttle mission has landed, and one of the crew, NASA astronaut Dr. Sandra “Sandy” Magnus, attended the Saint Louis Science Center’s SciFest on October 22, 2011 to tell us more about it. As for Magnus’s future, it seems a bit more up in the air.  She said that she wanted to be...