by Katie Watkins | Aug 31, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
It was June 29, and Dexter Rawlings had finished his first day of on-the-job training, installing solar panels on the rooftops of Washington. After hours under the unforgiving summer sun, he arrived home, exhausted. But an email was waiting for him with an encouraging...
by Katie Watkins | Aug 21, 2017 | Business & Tech
Washington — Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, seems like an unconventional way to find a love for engineering. But for Islamabad high schooler Ahmed Waheed, 15, the technical precision of folding intricate paper models sparked an interest...
by Katie Watkins | Aug 21, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Washington’s hot, humid summer has certainly caused those in the nation’s capital to sweat it out, but it’s just what the city’s three corpse flowers — which bloom with a violent stench — needed. The largest of the three super-sized, super-stinky blooms...
by Katie Watkins | Aug 16, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – For Congolese honorary park ranger Adams Cassinga, there is nothing quite like observing an elephant in its natural habitat. “It is a feeling of peace. It is a feeling of amazement,” he said. “It’s such a huge animal. If you have seen it on...
by Katie Watkins | Aug 11, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — On Saturday, Ambika will celebrate her 70th birthday like most of us do: with cake and surrounded by friends. She’ll reach for her cake — a mix of ice and tropical fruit — with a speckled trunk, during her celebration at the Smithsonian’s National...
