Now our brains are all riddled with fear of smartphone batteries, and panic begins to set in when power drops below 50%. One of the more bizarre ways to keep this tension at bay has a team of researchers developed a new smartphone business with a set of small robotic …
Read More »One RI County ranks among worst in the U.S. for Lyme Disease
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 GoLocalProv News Team Larger + view A new study finds that one province of Rhode Island has among the highest percentage of those with Lyme disease. The risk of exposure to vector-borne diseases caused by bug bites can increase as mosquitoes, meat, and ticks can spread …
Read More »These Jurassic Sea Creatures Spent decades crossing the ocean on rafts. Here’s how
The English city of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known from the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collecting fossils with another pioneering paleontologist, Mary Anning. One of their discoveries was the remains of …
Read More »Nearly 100,000 children infected in 2 weeks in the US, RI above national average
Monday, August 10, 2020 GoLocalProv News Team Larger + view RI ranks 9th highest for cumulative COVID-19 cases per 100,000 children A new study finds at least 97,000 children were recently infected with the coronavirus in the United States. And, the numbers of Rhode Island are particularly concerning. The percentage …
Read More »Scientists are about to explore a mysterious ‘blue hole’ in the ocean – BGR
Researchers set out to explore one of the ocean’s biggest mysteries: a kind of sinkhole in the ocean supply, known as a ‘blue hole’. Blue holes are enormous caves beneath the sea wall cut out by an unknown force, although scientists believe that there may be sober water sources in …
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