by Jacqueline Klimas | Aug 16, 2011 | Environment
During August, which is National Water Quality month, you may wonder where the District’s water goes once it has run down the drain. Before it streams back into the Potomac, water goes through a series of treatments at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment...
by Jacqueline Klimas | Aug 10, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Bromine levels in car seat materials have decreased over the last three years, but an advocacy group says they are still too high. HealthyStuff.org and the Ecology Center, which are based in Berkeley, Calif., released a study on Wednesday evaluating 150...
by Jacqueline Klimas | Aug 8, 2011 | Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Lofty equations and experiments of academia may seem far from practical innovations in manufacturing. The National Science Foundation and Cedar Valley Tech Works, however, are making the transition of technology into the public sector a little easier....
by Jacqueline Klimas | Jul 28, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — In the first seven months of 2011, there have already been 156 reported cases of measles in the U.S., three times the average of prior years. The nationwide spike is caused by a measles outbreak in Europe, said Jane Seward, a director in the...
