by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Jul 19, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, Yomna Ahmed Rageb remembers a childhood full of Legos. So when her parents suggested she get involved with robotics, it felt natural to trade her plastic bricks for metal gears. But when she first joined a robotics team as...
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by Ritu Prasad | Jul 13, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON-The best thing the government can do for the space market is simple: continue funding foundational science while leaving room for commercial industry to grow, according to aerospace industry experts. At the 6th annual Future Space 2017 event on Capitol Hill...
by Ritu Prasad | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut NASA’s 2018 budget means its education office, which creates programs for students from grade school through college would be eliminated. But Robert Lightfoot Jr., NASA’s acting administrator, assured...
by Ritu Prasad | Jun 28, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposal puts basic science research on the chopping block. On Wednesday, scientists from some of the country’s top research labs and universities told a House committee that the U.S. stands to lose its science edge to...
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by Nona Tepper | Feb 23, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
Twenty miles east of Reno, Nevada, garbage trucks skip the landfill and stop at Fulcrum BioEnergy, where tons of egg shells, coffee grinds, mattresses and other refuse are dumped into a large holding area. Two hours later, this garbage leaves the facility transformed...
by Xuanyan (Iris) Ouyang | Aug 22, 2016 | Education, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON – The number of universities offering cybersecurity education has soared to more than 200 with support from both the federal government and private industry. But getting students interested in the field and retaining faculty tempted by higher-paying...
