Hundreds of federal scientists miss conferences in shutdown
The world’s largest airborne observatory was supposed to be parked in Seattle this week, so thousands of scientists attending the “Super Bowl of Astronomy” could behold this marvel: a Boeing 747...
View ArticlePotential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from...
View ArticleTrump orders creation of Space Force, but within Air Force
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Pentagon to develop plans to create a new Space Force within the Air Force, accepting less than the full-fledged department he’d wanted....
View ArticleMilitary’s role in response to coronavirus outbreak is growing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s role in responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States began to rapidly expand Wednesday as officials announced that two Navy hospital ships and two Army...
View ArticleVandenberg Air Force Base to be renamed Space Force Base
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base was renamed Friday as a U.S. Space Force Base. The name was changed to Vandenberg Space Force Base during an afternoon...
View ArticleEPA chief reinstates science advisory board he dismantled
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he has fully reinstated one of two key advisory boards he dismantled earlier this year in a push for “scientific...
View ArticleNaval Academy expels 18 after online exam cheating probe
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has expelled 18 midshipmen and sanctioned 82 more after an investigation into cheating on an online physics exam in December, officials announced Friday....
View ArticleBiden administration affirms Trump era interpretation for high-level nuclear...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste’s radioactivity rather than how it was...
View ArticleWhite House: Top scientist resigns over treatment of staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned, hours after the White House confirmed that an internal investigation found credible evidence that he mistreated his...
View ArticleBiden taps 2 to step in for ousted science adviser Lander
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is replacing a top science adviser who resigned under a cloud with two individuals who will split his duties on an interim basis. Biden announced Wednesday that...
View ArticleNational Guard deploys for new emergency: Teacher shortages
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — On past deployments Army National Guard Spc. Michael Stockwell surveilled a desolate section of the U.S.-Mexico border during a migrant surge, and guarded a ring of checkpoints...
View ArticleUS astronaut ends record spaceflight with Russian ride home
A NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station, returning with two cosmonauts to a world torn apart by war. Mark Vande...
View ArticleReport: Fire training, equipment lacking at US nuclear dump
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect,...
View ArticleUS officials seek to crack down on harmful AI products
The U.S. government will “not hesitate to crack down” on harmful business practices involving artificial intelligence, the head of the Federal Trade Commission warned Tuesday in a message partly...
View ArticleNASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs on Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings and insisted it’s not hiding anything. The space agency...
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