by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The proposals, known as the Green New Deal, were crafted in conjunction with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts. The Democrats’ plan envisions shifting away from fossil fuels and other sources of emissions that cause global warming within 10 years....
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The author responds to people who joke about getting diabetes after eating sugary food.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists figured out how to hide a shot inside a pea-sized pill — creating a swallowable gadget, inspired by a tortoise shell, that can inject medicines like insulin from inside the stomach.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The finding, published in the journal Science, could have implications for approved and experimental dengue vaccines by Sanofi, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Merck & Co and Brazil's Butantan Institute, they said. It was based on tests of blood samples from...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The New York show, curated by Juliet Kinchin, explores iconic and unexpected items that define the design world over the years.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Editor's note: We've republished this piece in light of Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introducing a Green New Deal resolution. A week after being elected as New York's 14th District congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a protest by a group...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Nancy Pelosi appeared to poke fun at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ambitious proposal to create a carbon neutral economy within ten years, referring to the plan as “the green dream or whatever they call it”. The New York congresswoman and senator Ed Ma...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
NASA highlighted the legacy of astronauts lost in tragic missions including 1967's Apollo 1, the shuttle Challenger's launch in 1986 and the shuttle Columbia's breakup in 2003 today — a week later than originally planned due to the partia...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on congressional Democrats and proposals to address climate change (all times local):
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
As an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Trujillo’s work on the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover mission has given us our first close-up glimpses of Mars and clear evidence that the Red Planet was once capable of supporting life.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Medical services in Guinea are on alert after a man died from Lassa fever, health officials said on Thursday, with some 80 people being monitored for the deadly disease. Lassa fever is caused by a haemorrhagic virus which belongs to the same family...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Greece is "excessively" dependent on aerial fire-fighting and suffers from poor coordination, experts said on Thursday in a study of the country's worst fire tragedy that claimed 100 lives in July. The committee of forestry and safety engineering ex...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The freshman congresswoman is setting her new energy plan in motion. Here’s what that means.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
East Libyan military forces control a pumping substation for the El Sharara oilfield but the main production area is still occupied by armed tribesmen, a field engineer said on Thursday. The Libyan National Army (LNA), based in the east of the polit...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
French warplanes destroyed about 20 pick-up trucks in a third day of air strikes on Wednesday after Deby asked Paris for support. France sees him as key to a wider regional fight against Islamist militants. "Given the air operations which the Frenc...