Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center will open its new six-story Horizon Tower on Sunday, June 14, with emergency services relocating to the new facility at 4am.

The 150,352-square-foot addition includes a new Emergency Department with 38 treatment bays, a state-of-the-art intensive care unit, upgraded stroke care spaces and relocated cardiac catheterization labs designed to improve care coordination and reduce treatment times. The new emergency department will replace the hospital’s current adult emergency department, which sees more than 61,000 patients annually.

The nearly $250 million project replaces 76 existing critical care rooms and incorporates design features developed following lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, including enhanced infection-control measures, larger negative-pressure rooms and the ability to convert entire units for infectious disease care. Additional features include a rooftop helipad, outdoor ICU family patio, expanded natural lighting and updated technology. The project was supported in part by $22 million in community donations, and hospital officials say the tower is intended to improve patient care, staff efficiency and emergency preparedness for the region.

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on expert research and tailored to a child’s age to give parents a helpful starting point. Parents can adjust these settings based on what they determine is best for their child. Time Allowance categories are different from categories for user discovery on the App Store.

Entertainment and Games

Your app or game will appear in a Time Allowance category based on the information you provide in App Store Connect. Apps and games with Entertainment or Games selected as a primary or secondary category in App Store Connect will be sorted into the corresponding Time Allowance categories.

Social Media

The Time Allowance category for Social Media will be based on whether your app or game offers social media capabilities, regardless of the category selected in App Store Connect. This includes the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a social feed or similar discovery method that visibly spreads content to many users. Starting July 2026, the age rating questionnaire will be updated to let you indicate whether your app or game includes social media capabilities.

• If you indicate that your app or game includes social media capabilities, it will be placed in the Time Allowance category for Social Media and receive a minimum age rating of 13+.
• If you indicate that your app or game includes social media capabilities but they are disabled for anyone under 13, it won’t be included in the Time Allowance category for Social Media for users under 13. You'll also need to use the Declared Age Range API (at a minimum) to check users’ age ranges. If you select this option, your overall responses in the age rating questionnaire determine your age rating and may result in a rating lower than 13+. Your app or game may still be grouped in the Time Allowance category for Games or Entertainment based on the primary or secondary category selected in App Store Connect, and will remain in the Social Media category for users 13 and above.

Starting September 2026, you’ll be required to indicate whether your app or game includes social media capabilities in order to submit new versions or updates to the App Store, or for notarization for distribution on alternative app marketplaces.

Design safe and age‑appropriate experiences for your apps and games

Set an age rating

Declared Age Range API documentation

Humanity has littered the sky with the refuse of fossil fuel use, releasing enough CO₂ to change the planet’s climate. We are also chucking incredible sums of carbon in the form of plastics into landfills and into the environment around (and inside of) us. What if cleaning up one of these problems could also help clean up the other?

A new study led by Ruth Ebenbauer at Aarhus University experiments with this idea by upcycling discarded polystyrene into (part of) a material commonly used in carbon-capture systems.

Adding amines

This material is based on amines—a simple chemical group that conveniently acts like a sponge for CO₂. An amine will grab CO₂ molecules when exposed to them, but let go of the CO₂ when heated or depressurized, leaving it ready to go again. The first “CO₂ scrubbers” tried in smokestacks used amines dissolved in water to do this, but solid amines are used in all kinds of carbon-capture systems now because they require less energy. These solid materials—often made into granules similar to the activated carbon in a water filter—have high surface area and high porosity, so the amines can efficiently partner up with CO₂ molecules.

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A school bus driver was seriously injured Monday afternoon after a school bus crashed into a tree at the intersection of Ball Road and Ijamsville Road in Frederick County.

According to emergency communications, units were dispatched to the scene at approximately 4:23pm for a reported bus accident with entrapment. Upon arrival, responders found a school bus that had struck a tree, trapping the driver inside.

Two students were on board the bus at the time of the crash. Both students were able to exit the bus on their own and were evaluated by EMS personnel. Officials reported that neither student was injured, and both were reunited with their parents.

Due to the severity of the driver’s injuries, a medical helicopter was requested. Rescue crews successfully extricated the driver from the bus at approximately 4:45pm before the patient was transported for further medical treatment.

Frederick County Public Schools was notified of the incident and is making notifications to affected families. The cause of the crash has not been released.