by Danny Sirdofsky | Apr 22, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — A skeptical Senate panel grilled NASA about its budget for next year on Thursday. NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. did his best to answer questions in an oversight meeting on the space administration’s FY 2011 request. As expected, the major...
by Jeniece Pettitt | Apr 20, 2010 | National Security, Science + Technology
Jeniece PettittAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the obesity study “a wake up call” for the U.S. WASHINGTON — A new study shows that nine million, or 27 percent, of 17- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. are too fat to serve in the military- an...
by Jeniece Pettitt | Apr 19, 2010 | Environment, Science + Technology
Jeniece Pettitt The California LGMA regulates lettuce, spinach, cabbage, arugula, chard and other leafy greens. WASHINGTON –The federal government is considering a national program patterned after California’s public-private agriculture partnership that...
by Melissa Tussing | Apr 15, 2010 | Science + Technology
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Companies showed off innovative tools to help people in developing countries and remote areas at the 7th Annual Global Health Care Congress in National Harbor, Md. (Melissa Tussing/MNS) WASHINGTON — There’s a straw...
by Danny Sirdofsky | Apr 13, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — An obscure isotope known as Helium-3, which is used for everything from nuclear arms detection systems to medical imaging, is dwindling rapidly from an already limited supply. Most of the Helium-3 in the United States is being used at border...
by Melissa Tussing | Apr 7, 2010 | Science + Technology, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Sodexo employees take 30 minutes to walk. (Melissa Tussing and Janeen Wynn/MNS) GAITHERSBURG, MD – When Penny Johnson-Knowles learned recently that she has diabetes, she wanted to find a way to both manage the disease and stay...
