While conflicts-ridden Cardno Entrix is out, agency still refuses to ditch the flawed review it produced WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2012.  The State Department recently announced on its website that it has chosen a new third-party contractor to conduct the next round of review for TransCanada’s controversial re-application to build[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2012.  Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released its second video in the “Clean Energy in Our Community” video series featuring investments by the University of Minnesota, Morris (UMN-Morris) in clean energy that are benefitting local residents and workers.  UMN-Morris is working to reduce their energy waste and[Read More…]

  The International Space Station with ATV-2 and Endeavour EU–(ENEWSPF)–16 August 2012.  Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth.   Fifteen years ago as[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2012.  The antibacterial chemical triclosan, found in popular personal care products such as Colgate® Total toothpaste and Dial® Liquid Hand Soap, hinders muscle contractions at a cellular level, slows swimming in fish, and reduces muscular strength in mice, according to scientists at the University of California (UC)[Read More…]

This still frame is taken from the Arepo-generated animation shown above. It demonstrates Arepo’s key ability to produce realistic spiral galaxies. Previous simulations tended to yield blobby galaxies lacking distinct spiral structure. Credit: CfA/UCSD/HITS/M. Vogelsberger (CfA) & V. Springel (HITS) Cambridge, MA-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and[Read More…]

Detection may confirm long-held theory. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2012.  As vast as the Milky Way may seem, our sprawling galaxy is but a speck next to the largest structures in the universe: galaxy clusters — collections of hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. At the heart of[Read More…]

Sheboygan–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2010. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Sheboygan area officials joined forces today to kick off the final dredging work and habitat restoration projects needed to remove the Sheboygan River “Area of Concern” from a list of toxic hot spots identified in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2012.  After decades of denying Vietnamese requests for assistance in a cleanup, the United States launched its first major effort to address environmental contamination brought on by its use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, this according to the New York Times. Agent Orange is a[Read More…]

NASA-(ENEWSPF)- On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun’s right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along the way. Using the STEREO data, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. clocked this[Read More…]

The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph combined undergoing cryogenic testing. Credit: COM DEV Canada Greenbelt, MD-(ENEWSPF)- The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the[Read More…]