by Christina van Waasbergen | Jun 7, 2023 | Energy, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany—In the steel-gray North Sea waters of the port of Wilhelmshaven floats an impressively long tanker, the German government’s answer to the nation’s energy crisis. The Höegh Esperanza, sprawling the length of three football fields, is what’s known...
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by Pingping Yin | May 19, 2023 | Featured, Health, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — The opioid antidote Narcan is now available at six harm-reduction vending machines in neighborhoods across Washington D.C. Installed in April, the vending machines provide free Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and other harm-reduction materials. The vending...
by Julia Mueller | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains —...
by Courtney Degen | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
Dane County has joined a nationwide relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, but the immunocompromised and their doctors worry the absence of guidelines puts those with vulnerable immune systems at increased risk. Dr. Jeannina Smith, medical director of the Transplant...
by Ariel Gans | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Erinn Baldeschwiler has been battling stage four metastatic breast cancer for two years. Two months after her diagnosis, the 50-year-old writer and patient advocate began immunotherapy. But in October, her cancer became treatment-resistant and she...
by Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 31, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As the nation’s governors consider how to spend funds from President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is encouraging investments in cybersecurity education for Americans of all...
