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Emerging Tech
Cell-Phone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats. The Next Question: What Does it Mean For Humans?
The studies were nearly two decades in the making.
Digital Government
Your Open Office Might Make You More Active And Less Stressed
Loneliness and isolation can have a real impact on mental health.
Emerging Tech
Half of Puerto Rico Still Doesn’t Have Power—104 Days After Hurricane Maria
Data on the extent of the outage has been hard to come by.
Digital Government
A New Analysis of 4-Year-Old Data Shows the EPA Is Ignoring a Lot of Toxins in US Drinking Water
PFOA, an ingredient in Teflon, is far more prevalent in American drinking water than previously thought.
Digital Government
NASA’s Next Head Wants it to Do Less Climate Science and More Weather Science, But You Can’t Separate Them
Trump’s NASA nominee is Jim Bridenstine, a congressman from Oklahoma.
Emerging Tech
For the First Time Ever, U.S. Is Getting 10% of its Electricity From Wind and Solar
Renewables—especially wind power—already make up significantly more than 10 perecent of the electricity in several states.
Digital Government
These Are the 158 Key Federal Science Data Sets Rogue Programmers Have Duplicated So Far
This includes climate data from NASA and NOAA.
Digital Government
NASA Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Plan to Cut the Space Agency’s Climate Science Program Is Harder than It Sounds
Cutting the programs could be a logistical nightmare.
Digital Government
Guerrilla Archivists Developed an App to Save Science Data From the Trump Administration
The data rescue movement is growing up fast.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Many of the programmers who showed up at UCLA for the event had day jobs as IT consultants or data managers at startups.
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Digital Government
Getting Rid of Obamacare Will Cripple the Department Keeping Bioterrorism and Outbreaks at Bay
It’s not just about doctor’s visits and medications.
