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Q&A: Creating a Safe Haven For Children

By Guest PostApril 28, 2011General, Healthandrea asnes, assessment, bridging program, child abuse, child abuse program, children, dart, detection, john leventhal, leventhal, new haven, pediatrics, physical abuse, referral and treatment, sexual abuse, yale daily bulletin

For over 25 years, Dr. John M. Leventhal has been fighting a battle to protect the lives of hundreds of children who come through one of the child abuse programs at Yale.

He has won many struggles along the way, but to win the war, he says, the program needs to be armed with more state and federal support, as well as support from individuals and foundations.

“Finding ways to protect children who can’t defend themselves is part of what wakes me up in the morning and motivates me to continue this tough, but important work,” says Leventhal, professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Child Abuse Programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. (more…)

Prey-tell: Why Right Whales Linger in the Gulf of Maine

By Guest PostApril 27, 2011Nature, Sciencealgae eating copepod, baleen whales, behavior of the whales, calanus finmarchicus, dramatic impact, endangered animals, gulf of maine, mark baumgartner, nantucket, north atlantic, sand lance, sei whales, vertical migration, vertical migration behavior, whale population, whales, whoi, woods hole oceanographic institution

As they might with most endangered animals, scientists consider the whereabouts and activities of right whales extremely important. “It is helpful to know where they go, why they go there and what they do when they’re there,” says Mark F. Baumgartner of the biology department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

Baumgartner and his colleagues studied the behavior of right whales and sei whales—both endangered species of baleen whales—in the waters of the Gulf of Maine to the east of Nantucket. They found that the location, the length of stay, and perhaps the very abundance of the whales may be dependent on an interesting vertical migration pattern by the copepods on which the whales feed. It seems to be a case, he said, of “how the behavior of the prey influences the behavior of the whales.” (more…)

Harmonic Convergence: Music and Social Networking Join Forces

By Guest PostApril 27, 2011Technologybada, bizspark one startup, calabrese, ceo of soundtrckr, daniele calabrese, geo referencing, global geo referencing technology, icebreaker, internet explorer 9, internet radio, iPhone, madrid, medianet, Microsoft, music, nightclub, nokia, pandora, philadelphia, Social networking, soundtrckr, windows phone 7, world bank

*BizSpark One startup Soundtrckr lets listeners discover, play and share music on their terms — alongside their friends.*

REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2011 — Soundtrckr, a BizSpark One startup, mashes Internet radio with social networking and location-awareness to help users create a soundtrack for their lives.

Sometimes, opportunity presents itself when least expected. That’s what Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtrckr, discovered as he boarded a plane bound to Philadelphia from Madrid. Calabrese was launching a new concept in radio called Soundtrckr, a geo-social Internet music service. In its infancy, Soundtrckr just needed the right connections to take it to the heights Calabrese was convinced it could reach. He sat down and met his seat mate. (more…)

Bringing more Power to African Farmers Through Simple Technology

By Guest PostApril 27, 2011Scienceafrican farmers, engineering projects, project leaf, sustainable farming technology

In a room in the basement of Hillhouse Avenue, 18 Yale students have spent the past 12 weeks transforming gears, wing nuts and sprockets into energy solutions for farmers working thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa. (more…)

Anti-Helium Discovered in the Heart of STAR

By Guest PostApril 26, 2011Scienceaccelerator technology, alpha magnetic spectrometer, ams, anti heavy hydrogen, anti hypertriton, antialpha, antideuteron, antielectron, antihelium 4, antinucleons, antiparticles, antiproton, baryon, baryon number, berkeley lab, carl anderson, CERN, collisions of energetic gold nuclei, ernest rutherford, experiment, hans georg ritter, heaviest antiparticle, nu xu, nucleus, nucleus of antihelium 4, nucleus of antihydrogen, particle, positron, relativistic heavy ion collider, rhic, star, star experiment

*Berkeley Lab nuclear scientists join with their international colleagues in the latest record-breaking discovery at RHIC*

Eighteen examples of the heaviest antiparticle ever found, the nucleus of antihelium-4, have been made in the STAR experiment at RHIC, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.

“The STAR experiment is uniquely capable of finding antihelium‑4,” says the STAR experiment’s spokesperson, Nu Xu, of the Nuclear Science Division (NSD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “STAR already holds the record for massive antiparticles, last year having identified the anti-hypertriton, which contains three constituent antiparticles. With four antinucleons, antihelium-4 is produced at a rate a thousand times lower yet. To identify the 18 examples required sifting through the debris of a billion gold-gold collisions.” (more…)

Multitasking Challenge: Radar Analysis of Walking Patterns Shows Promise for Detecting Concussions in Athletes and Soldiers

By Guest PostApril 25, 2011Sciencegait patterns, motor skill tasks, multitasking challenge, signs of concussion, traumatic brain injuries, walking patterns

Walking and thinking at the same time can be especially difficult for persons who’ve suffered concussions, and scientists hope to use that multitasking challenge — measured by a simple radar system — to quickly screen individuals who may have suffered brain injuries. (more…)

Melting Ice on Arctic Islands a Major Player in Sea Level Rise

By Guest PostApril 25, 2011Environmentarctic glacier loss, arctic ice melt, canadian arctic islands, glacier ice melting, melting glaciers

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher. (more…)

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