BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 16 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend, a tractor guided by GPS missed its mark. What do the visibility of the northern lights have in common with compromised farming equipment in the Midwest? A uniquely powerful geomagnetic storm, according to two newly published papers co-authored by Virginia Tech's Scott England. "The northern lights are caused by energ  more

AURORA, Colorado, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Colorado Boulder Anschutz Medical Campus issued the following news release: * * * Most psychiatric hospitalizations did not involve substances, however, and opioid-involved encounters Decreased * * * A new study, out now in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, that details trends among psychiatric hospitalizations between 2015-2019 finds that while most hospitalizations did not involve any substances, methamphetamine-related hospitalizations ha  more