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STAT+: Despite resumption of NIH grant reviews, research funding gap grew
STAT - Massachusetts
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June 27, 2025
Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach Megan on Signal at mmolteni.13. At his confirmation...
Kennedy’s Vaccine Advisers Sow Doubts as Scientists Protest US Pivot on Shots
KFF Health News - California
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June 27, 2025
As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked to replace experts he’d fired earlier met inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s headquarters to plan a...
AP Technology SummaryBrief at 5:30 a.m. EDT
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing...
Media Statement on Intervention in Northwest Aquaculture Alliance v. Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Center for Food Safety
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Media Statement on Intervention in Northwest Aquaculture Alliance v. Washington State Department of Natural Resources In August 2017, a devastating net pen aquaculture collapse at a facility maintained by Cooke Aquaculture in Puget Sound released...
Teens’ children’s book delves into Asian American history in Washington state
Mercer Island Reporter - Washington State
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June 25, 2025
Grace Go’s gap year after graduating from high school has been replete with vital and life-affirming activities. The Class of 2024 Mercer Island High School graduate has paired with her friend Scarlett Luo, now a rising senior at Edmonds-Woodway...
GIS Tool Helps Washington State Plan for EV Infrastructure
Government Technology
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June 25, 2025
Locating the next electric vehicle charging station in the state of Washington doesn’t need to be a decision based on whim, or even gut instinct. It could be based on data. A new publicly available electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure planning...
AP Technology SummaryBrief at 1:55 a.m. EDT
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing...
AP Technology SummaryBrief at 12:19 a.m. EDT
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing...
Writer Vauhini Vara examines how corporate-owned technologies influence her understanding of herself
Scroll.in
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In the eighth grade, not long after it first occurred to me that Chloe from the Seventeen chat room might not be who she said, I started making up fake identities. One name I bequeathed myself was Lauren, that of one of the soft-lipped girls I’d...
Washington state will tax popular convenience store product
OregonLive.com
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June 24, 2025
When school is in session, ZYN is one of the top sellers at the Mobil gas station on Hamilton Street. Just around the corner from Gonzaga University, the convenience store advertises a promotional deal outside its entrance: “buy a 5-can roll, save...
Seven UW students receive Fulbright exchange awards for study, research and teaching positions around the world
University of Washington
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June 26, 2025
Global | News releases June 26, 2025 Seven UW students and recent alumni were selected for Fulbright exchange awards. Top row: Emily Bassett, Thomas Key, Vincent Da, Elana Skeers. Bottom row: Sabrina Prestes Oliveira, Jack Regala and Annabella...
Orca Network celebrates “Toki’s Legacy” with Washington State Ferries
Journal of the San Juans - Washington State
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June 25, 2025
Submitted by the Orca Network Orca Network and Washington State Ferries will be hosting an event on board the ferry Tokitae on June 29th to celebrate Toki’s Legacy. The ferry’s name, nominated by Orca Network, honors the Southern Resident orca...
Ground broken on $140M Seattle Public Schools’ stadium
The Center Square
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June 26, 2025
(The Center Square) – Groundbreaking started Thursday on the replacement for Seattle’s 78-year-old Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center. The start of construction on the project comes over two years after the city and Seattle Public Schools jointly...
Technology enhances today’s agriculture
Agrinews - Ilinois
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This is the second in a series of columns featuring conversations with state Farm Bureau presidents about current issues in agriculture. John Boelts is president of Arizona Farm Bureau. He continues a family farming tradition with his wife,...
Seattle Joins Other Cities in Banning Rent-Setting Software
Government Technology
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June 25, 2025
(TNS) — Seattle will soon ban the controversial rent-setting platform RealPage and similar services, becoming the latest local government to take aim at a technology that critics say helps drive up housing costs. The Seattle City Council voted...
Seattle astronomers celebrate new photos from the Rubin Observatory
KNKX - Washington State
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June 25, 2025
Some of the first images of space captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile were released earlier this week. In Seattle, researchers and students at the University of Washington gathered to view the photos at the campus' planetarium on...
Explore space with NOLS and Pacific Science Center, June 26
Forks Forum - Washington State
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June 26, 2025
The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is launching its Summer Reading Program with four free presentations of “Explore Space with the Pacific Science Center.” What would the Big Dipper look like from the other side of the universe? How much...
Seattle City Council outlaws rent-setting software used by corporate landlords
The Center Square
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June 25, 2025
(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill banning algorithmic rent-setting tools that some claim have helped set higher rents in the city. Council Bill 121000 bans software that analyzes market data to...
Seattle to ban controversial rent-setting software RealPage
The Columbian - Washington State
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SEATTLE — Seattle will soon ban the controversial rent-setting platform RealPage and similar services, becoming the latest local government to take aim at a technology that critics say helps drive up housing costs. The Seattle City Council voted...
New research from Spokane Riverkeeper shows significant levels of PFAS in Spokane River
KHQ - Washington State
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SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane Riverkeeper, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and restoring the Spokane River, collected water samples as a part of a recent study with Waterkeeper Alliance and reported that PFAS are 5,000% higher at biosolid land...