by Shelby Fleig | May 11, 2018 | Environment, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Solar power is now the third most popular renewable energy source, behind water and wind, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The latest example of its continued growth came Wednesday when the California Energy...
by David Thill | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Science + Technology
National Geographic is charting new territory: a fiction book line for young readers. The new label, Under the Stars, “will create fictional stories based on the research and adventures of National Geographic’s leading scientists, photographers and journalists,”...
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by Yingjie Gu | Oct 18, 2017 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Blockchain, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and other innovative technologies will be the key to achieve maximum efficiency in the manufacturing supply chains, saving money and time for American businesses,?a senior trade official at...
by Ritu Prasad & 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 Ritu Prasad | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
What NASA knows about the space rocks coming into our neck of the solar system this year WASHINGTON — What’s better than a story about the apocalypse? We’ve been figuring out the best and brightest ways for humanity to end-as-we-know-it since we started telling...
by Christine Huang | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Global warming will fuel the overgrowth of harmful algal blooms in lakes and reservoirs, affecting the Northeast and Southeast most significantly, according to a new study. Using a detailed modeling framework, Steven Chapra, a Tufts University...
