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Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium

March 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Black, Forest, Isotopes, Nature Communications, University of Vienna, Uranium

Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the civil nuclear industry or as fallout from nuclear weapon tests, the ratio of the two anthropogenic, i.e. man-made, uranium isotopes 233U and 236U varies. These results were lately found by an international team grouped around physicists from the University of Vienna and provides a promising new “fingerprint” for the identification of radioactive emission sources.

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One-Fourth of Children with Autism Are Undiagnosed

January 9, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Black, Hispanic

One-fourth of children under age 8 with autism spectrum disorder — most of them black or Hispanic — are not being diagnosed, which is critical for improving quality of life.

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Suicide attempts among black adolescents on the rise

October 22, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments African American, Black, Suicide, Youth

While suicide attempts decreased overall among U.S. adolescents between 1991 and 2017, they increased by 73% among black adolescents, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.“The rise in suicide rates among black youth can most likely be traced back to an internalization of issues around structural racism in America, along with a lack of coping mechanisms and lack of investment in mental health services in black communities,” said Sean Joe, the Benjamin E.