Sharks Attack! Stay Away At A Full Moon
Are sharks more active during the time of a full and new moon? According to Shark Attacks Survivors News Archive, which is updated daily, 63.5% of all reported shark attacks—625 reports in the last 5 and a half years—have occurred within a 4–5 day period of a full or new moon. It starts with the relationship between...
The Carter Carburetor Building: Health Hazard
This is a special SciJourner investigative report written by Marquise Middleton with additional help from Toni Stovall. Carter Carburetor, once one of the largest job providers in north St. Louis, is now one of the most toxic Carter Carburetor manufactured carburetors at the site from 1930 until 1984 when the plant...
Binge Eating? New Study May Bring Hope
Walking down the street there are constant temptations to dig in to a delectable dessert. Normally, one could have a few cookies and ice cream and be satisfied, but what if you came to a point where it seems like you’re never satisfied? Well maybe it is because eating fatty foods may give you the...
Acrylic Nails in Health Care Settings
Have you ever taken a look at your doctor’s nails? Are they long, polished or fake? If so your doctor may not be following the proper health care policy. To help hospitals understand the risks of artificial nails, the World Health Organization (WHO), the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system,...
Is It a Bite or Something More?
“Mosquitoes with West Nile virus have been found throughout St. Louis County,” say Saint Louis County Health Officials. West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne infection that can cause serious illness is spreading rapidly right in our back yard. WNV “can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the...
New Rules to the Game of Football
As the fall approaches it means two things. Back to school and back to football. But football won’t be the same in Missouri. On July 13, Gov. Jay Nixon signed the Interscholastic Youth Sports Brain Injury Prevention Act, which is better known as the Missouri Concussions Bill. According to May 3, 2011, from St. Louis TV station...
How Hot is Too Hot?
What kills more people each year than floods, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes combined? Heat! Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the nation, according to records at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service. In 1980, a heat wave claimed close to 1,250 lives across the nation. Later, in 1995, more than 700 people...
Trash Factory
In Lake Orion, MI, General Motors (GM)has retooled their car factory to maximize efficiency. According to motortrend.com, low energy lighting, thinner paint layers on cars, and clever reuse of heated air will increase the energy efficiency of the plant. But one of the biggest energy savers will be the use of local landfills as a power source....
Historic Launch Viewed at the Saint Louis Science Center
On July 8, 2011, the final flight of the space shuttle program launched from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Saint Louis Science Center didn’t miss a second of it. The James S. McDonell Planetarium was free and open to the public on the day of the launch. From families to summer...