Jazmine Barnes: Second man charged in drive-by shooting
The drive-by shooting of Jazmine Barnes, 7, caused national outrage and a state-wide manhunt. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2Qumlnz
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Immigrant kids in U.S. deliberately build STEM skills
US immigrant children study more math and science in high school and college, which leads to their greater presence in STEM careers, according to new findings. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2FgBjMG
Programming light on a chip
Researchers have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency (or color) in an integrated circuit. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2C87r17
Obesity surgery leads to emergence of new microbial strains in the human fecal community
Using a unique bioinformatics technique, researchers have detected the emergence of new strains of microbes in the human fecal microbiota after obesity surgery. These new strains emerged after surgical disruption of the stomach and upper small intestine. In contrast, the researchers found that strains of the human gut fecal microbiota resembled those found pre-surgery following surgery in the colon. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2LXZGzv
A survey machine and a data trove: Dark Energy Survey's rich legacy
On the night of Jan. 9, 2019, the V. M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), high in the mountains of Chile, will close the camera's shutter on the final image from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) -- a survey that has mapped 5,000 square degrees of the heavens, almost one-quarter of the southern sky. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2RdbXps
Nature's magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanets
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that's between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the 'snow line' of its host star, an alien world of this scale was supposed to be rare. from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2Femr1F
Hacking Suspect, 20, Confesses To Posting Private Data Of Hundreds Of German Leaders
The suspect told police he acted alone in publishing information stolen from accounts related to Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians. As for a motive, he said he was annoyed. from Technology : NPR https://n.pr/2VG14en