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Mar 19, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
New images have been released showing the scale of destruction inside an old reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The photographs, taken using miniature drones, were released on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company. The images showed brown icicle-shaped objects, control equipment, and other distorted materials deep inside the melted reactor.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
The Environmental Protection Agency is enforcing limits on a cancer-causing chemical used to sterilize medical equipment, it announced Thursday. Ethylene oxide, one of the most toxic air pollutants regulated by the EPA, is used to clean billions of daily medical instruments such as catheters and syringes. This colorless, flammable gas has been associated with types of cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
SpaceX‘s most powerful rocket blasted off on another test flight on Thursday and made it farther than its two previous attempts, only to get destroyed upon its fiery reentry to Earth. About 40 minutes after the rocket’s liftoff from Boca Chica, Texas, the astronautics company lost signal with the rocket as it flew over the Gulf of Mexico, almost reaching its goal before turning into a fiery ball.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
The medical community remains optimistic after a handful of experiments found a way to shrink a persistent and harmful form of brain cancer. Scientists gathered patients’ immune cells and changed them into “living drugs” that scan and fight glioblastoma. These tests temporarily dwindled the size of tumors, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
The use of neti pots has been controversial for years, but on Wednesday, scientists determined that a second danger threatens this practice of nasal rinsing. In a new report, acanthamoeba infections have been linked to nasal rinsing devices such as neti pots by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We published this study because we want people to be aware of this risk,” the CDC’s Julia Haston said.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
Denmark plans to enlist women and young people for military service by increasing service time from four to 11 months, the Danish government said on Wednesday. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is pushing for the move, which would make Denmark one of few countries to require women to serve in the armed forces. The government wants ”full equality between the sexes,” Frederiksen said at a press conference. “We do not rearm because we want war.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
People will brace themselves next month to experience one of nature’s best sights: turning day into night during a total eclipse of the sun. The record-setting astronomical event will occur on April 8 for about 4 minutes and 28 seconds, beating the Great American Eclipse that darkened U.S. skies from Oregon to South Carolina for 2 minutes and 42 seconds in August 2017.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
tiny.cc | Lily Larsen
People will brace themselves next month to experience one of nature’s best sights: turning day into night during a total eclipse of the sun. The record-setting astronomical event will occur on April 8 for about 4 minutes and 28 seconds, beating the Great American Eclipse that darkened U.S. skies from Oregon to South Carolina for 2 minutes and 42 seconds in August 2017.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
Many libraries have been struggling to deal with the rising costs of e-books and audiobooks as the demand at local libraries has seen an uptick in recent years. Connecticut’s West Haven Public Library is one of many grappling with the high cost and demand for e-books. When a new book is released, a hardcover copy only costs the library $18, while a digital copy costs $55 to lease, and this price is set and cannot be negotiated with publishers.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Lily Larsen
The cost to rebuild the scientific infrastructure destroyed during the first two years of Russia’s war with Ukraine will cost more than an estimated $1 billion, UNESCO reported Monday. UNESCO reported that 1,443 buildings and labs owned by 177 universities and organizations have been demolished or damaged by the war, and 750 parts of equipment used in a wide range of research activities were damaged, many beyond repair. The cost to restore the essential equipment is $45.9 million.
