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Missouri S&T researcher studies how energy shifts could improve tornado predictions

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Severe weather events have left millions of people without power for days, sometimes weeks or months, raising questions about whether the United States power infrastructure needs an overhaul. Joseph Vantassel, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, believes moving power lines underground could be a solution.

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Nearly 3 out of every 4 older Americans have experienced at least one extreme weather event in the last two years, a new poll finds. And living through such an event appears to make a big difference in how they view the potential impact of climate change on their health and that of future generations.

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It鈥檚 not quite 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 16, and a large group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students has congregated at a pavilion in Rolla鈥檚 Schuman Park, a short distance from the university鈥檚 campus.

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A new national study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers finds patients whose facility was impacted by a wildfire disaster during recovery from lung cancer surgery had longer length of stay than similar patients treated at the same facility, but at times when no disaster occurred.

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Collaboration among three Georgia institutions of higher education on the operation of a new weather radar system will enhance student learning, provide new opportunities for research, and help improve severe weather coverage in north Georgia.

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'Twisters' draws from storm-chasing science led by Nebraska expert

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Cosmic rays could offer scientists another way to track and study violent tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, a new study suggests.

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A new course this spring, "Field Observations of Thunderstorms," took 13 Iowa State students and their three instructors across "Tornado Alley" for eight days. They found storms, collected data and shared information with national forecasters. It all could have been straight out of the 1996 movie 鈥淭wister鈥� or this summer鈥檚 sequel, 鈥淭wisters.鈥�

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Research led by Eren Ozguven, director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center (RIDER) and a professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, examined demographics, infrastructure and more than seven decades of weather data to determine which places in Kentucky are most vulnerable to tornadoes.

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UC San Diego Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld has shown in theoretical models of turbulence that even molecular motions can create large-scale patterns of randomness over a defined period of time.

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A research team has won a four-year, $14 million grant to design a national testing facility that will simulate tornadoes and other windstorms. Experiments will measure the loads that windstorms exert on structures and help researchers engineer building improvements that can reduce damage and save lives.

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The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Disaster Assessment and Recovery, DAR, unit is expanding its statewide disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts following the appropriations to support the 鈥淜eeping Texas Prepared鈥� initiative in the 88th legislative session.

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As we enter the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere and the possibility of extreme heat becomes more common, it鈥檚 important to stay up-to-date on the science of heat waves and take measures to protect ourselves from this growing public health threat.

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Title 42, the United States pandemic rule that had been used to immediately deport hundreds of thousands of migrants who crossed the border illegally over the last three years, has expired. Those migrants will have the opportunity to apply for asylum. President Biden's new rules to replace Title 42 are facing legal challenges. Border crossings have already risen sharply, as many migrants attempt to cross before the measure expires on Thursday night. Some have said they worry about tighter controls and uncertainty ahead. Immigration is once again a major focus of the media as we examine the humanitarian, political, and public health issues migrants must go through.

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Researcher will discuss the study which involved a sleeping aid known as suvorexant that is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for insomnia, hints at the potential of sleep medications to slow or stop the progression of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.

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They say that cats have nine lives, but one UA Little Rock student-athlete believes it鈥檚 a miracle that she found her beloved dog, a 4-year-old Australian Shepherd named Remy, alive and well after he was trapped in her apartment for almost a day following the devastating tornado that struck Little Rock on March 31.