WASHINGTON, May 14 -- George Washington University issued the following news release: Communities on Facebook that distrust establishment health guidance are more effective than government health agencies and other reliable health groups at reaching and engaging "undecided" individuals, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Researchers at the George Washington University developed a first-of-its-kind map to track the vaccine conversation among 100 million Facebook users during   more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news on May 11: During the 13 years Cassini studied Saturn, the spacecraft captured 453,048 images, discovered six new moons and completed 294 orbits, all before making its fiery final descent into the planet's atmosphere on Sept. 17, 2017. Cassini also made dozens of flybys of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Given its rocky core and thick atmosphere, scientists suspected that Titan migh  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: New research has found that El Nino events are often associated with droughts in some of the world's more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific, El Ninos can in turn influence global weather patterns and tropical precipitation, and these changes can lead to massive plant die-offs if other extreme   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: For the second year in a row, a team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories led a demonstration hosted by EPB, a community-based utility and telecommunications company serving Chattanooga, Tennessee. Using an isolated portion of EPB's fiber-optic network, the team experimented with quantum-based technologies that could improve   more