by Allison Novelo | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Disaster relief organizations voiced their dissatisfaction with what they described as a shortfall of cooperation from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in mitigating climate-driven natural disasters during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.The Senate...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 2, 2020 | Health, Science + Technology
The directors of the nation’s top public health agencies reiterated Thursday that they expect to be able to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine by early next year. The heads of the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the...
by Anne Snabes | Jun 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
Sophia Horigan was supposed to study gypsy moths in a southwestern Michigan forest this spring and summer. Instead, the University of Chicago PhD student is studying in her apartment, where she rotates between a wooden table and a grey armchair. With her field...
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by Silvia Martelli | Oct 2, 2019 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The government needs a smarter approach to using the Cloud and that may require spending more to train for federal workers due to a skills gap, the chief information officer for the Office of Management and Budget said Thursday. Suzette Kent, speaking at...
by Beverly Banks | Apr 5, 2019 | Featured, Health, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON, April 3 — Could humans regrow their limbs? Researchers are considering this possibility as they study the regrowth of tail fins and other organs in zebrafish. Zebrafish are a member of the minnow family that live in freshwater and are no bigger than...
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by Brock Hall | Mar 6, 2019 | Science + Technology
Democrats unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reinstitute net neutrality rules that were scrapped in 2017 by the Trump administration. The bill, called the “Save the Internet Act,” would bring back rules that prevented internet providers from slowing down or blocking...
