Tag: study

WICHITA, Kansas ? About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells. How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It depends. But new research suggests those wells deliver water tainted…

If you’re looking for who’s responsible for all the misinformation out there, you might want to take a peek in the mirror. OK, OK, it’s not all your fault. Although external sources of misinformation like…

Is the meaning of love truly universal? It might depend on the language you speak, a new study finds. Scientists who searched out semantic patterns in nearly 2,500 languages from all over the world found…

Some common heart procedures may be more common than they should be, a large-scale study led in part by a Kansas City doctor suggests. The study, which involved nearly 5,200 patients in 37 countries, found…

School board members were all smiles Monday evening after hearing the geo-tech report concerning land at Kentucky and Monroe streets, targeted as the site of a new elementary school. Going into the meeting, the board…

Information’s great. But what about insight? A fresh University of Kansas study contends state educators put too much emphasis on data and too little on the savvy and experience of teachers. Data-driven decision have been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election has generally been seen as two separate, unrelated tracks: hacking Democratic emails and sending provocative tweets. But a new study suggests the tactics were likely…

NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland’s Loch Ness suggests the lake’s fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says the…

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — The long history of mining in Southeast Kansas left its mark not only on the landscape but on local water quality as well, although remediation efforts in recent years have helped…

LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of earthquakes we feel come soon after smaller ones, according to new research that provides unprecedented insights into how seismology works. Sometimes days or even weeks before most temblors…