Society’s increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD-like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human-Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery. “Less than 10 years ago, Steve Jobs promised that smartphones ‘will change…
Green Pea Galaxy Provides Insights To Early Universe Evolution
Newly formed dwarf galaxies were likely the reason that the universe heated up about 13 billion years ago, according to new work by an international team of scientists that included a University of Virginia researcher. The finding opens an avenue for better understanding the early period of the universe’s 14 billion year history. In the…
Balloon Launch Takes Student Research To Great Heights
On a stunningly clear October morning, a 400-foot-tall NASA high-altitude balloon rose from an airport runway in Fort Sumner, New Mexico and began its ascent into the stratosphere. The last flight in NASA’s fall balloon campaign, its payloads included the JefferSat Cosmic Ray Mission, an experiment to measure radiation caused by cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. The…