As a professional gardener, there are certain bulbs I return to every year without fail. Take ‘Apricot Beauty’ tulips, for example. These pastel peach blooms have followed me from garden to garden during different placements working in the…
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Senate Confirms Trump Pick Marc Molinaro to Lead Federal Transit Administration
The U.S. Senate confirmed Marcus Molinaro to lead the Federal Transit Administration by a 71-23 vote Aug. 2 shortly before senators broke for their summer recess.
Molinaro previously outlined some of his priorities as FTA administrator during a…
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STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms
Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at the forefront of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) education, play a key role in the advancement of STEM learning…
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Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil
- Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.
- Boasting hundreds of ancient rock paintings, Monte Alegre State Park (PETA) in northern…
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Billions of starfish have died in a decade-long epidemic. Scientists say they now know why.
Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars – often known as starfish – off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.
Starting in 2013, a mysterious sea star
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UCLA study shows stem cells can be reprogrammed to fight cancer
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, UCLA scientists have shown it’s possible to reprogram a patient’s blood-forming stem cells to generate a continuous supply of functional T cells, the immune system’s most powerful…
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Bhutan’s new farm fencing program could be costly for wildlife (commentary)
- The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is known for embracing nature as part of its philosophy of Gross National Happiness, but this is increasingly at odds with a new drive to boost food self-sufficiency, due to…
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Former poachers guard Cabo Verde’s endangered sea turtles
- Conservation organizations are employing Cabo Verdeans, who formerly hunted endangered and threatened sea turtles, as rangers who now monitor and patrol beaches.
- From 2007-24, illegal catches of female turtles on…
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A Novel Gene Therapy for Osteoarthritis Pain
Genetic errors can cause many different diseases, and scientists have been looking for methods to fix those errors for decades. Although many gene therapies have aimed to correct errors in individual genes…
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends
The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission.
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. Despite extensive…
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