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Archive for the 'Research' Category
Washington DC -May 21- Innovative fossil energy research projects will be investigated by students and faculty from four winning institutions in the Department of Energy’s annual competition for fossil energy research ideas from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU/OMI).
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Washington DC -May 21- The Federal Communications Commission’s just-issued annual report on the wireless industry does not conclude that the market reflects “effective competition.” In contrast to past years, the report – released at the agency’s monthly open meeting today - makes no conclusions at all, but instead contains expanded analysis of various aspects of the wireless market.
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Washington DC -May 20- The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released an independent study projecting the positive economic impact of the Department of Treasury Grant Program (TGP) and the Solar Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit.
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Washington DC -May 20- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today released “The Hidden Health Costs of Transportation,” a new publication that addresses how our nation’s current transportation system contributes to today’s soaring health costs and impedes progress toward improving public health.
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Washington DC -May 20- The Committee on House Administration’s Ranking Republican Dan Lungren, R-Calif., issued the following statement on the Democrats’ failure to publicly release the revised version of their campaign finance legislation.
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Washington DC -May 19- A genetic variant of a receptor in the brain’s reward circuitry plays an important role in determining whether the neurotransmitter dopamine is released in the brain following alcohol intake, according to a study led by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Washington DC -May 19- A new AARP Rx Watchdog report finds consumers were hit with nearly ten percent increases in brand name drug prices over the twelve-month period ending in March of this year.
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Washington DC -May 19- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.1 percent in April,the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the index increased 2.2 percent before seasonal adjustment.
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Washington DC -May 18- Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region, and only a fraction of that land has been reclaimed for so-called beneficial economic uses, according to new research by environmental groups.
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Washington DC -May 18- The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to NOAA. Additionally, last month’s average ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for any April, and the global land surface temperature was the third warmest on record.
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Washington DC -May 18- New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.
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Washington DC -May 18- Newborn infants are capable of a simple form of learning while they’re asleep, according to a study by researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Washington DC -May 18- The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods declined 0.1 percent in April, seasonally adjusted,the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
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Washington DC -May 14- Tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled, beginning 4.568 billion years ago.
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Washington DC -May 14- Industrial production increased 0.8 percent in April after having risen 0.2 percent in March.
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