The Pentagon, one of the world’s largest buildings, is getting rooftop solar

  • January 18, 2024
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Photo: The Pentagon. (2024, January 13). In Wikipedia. The US Department of Defense will install rooftop solar on the Pentagon as part of the Biden administration’s plan to “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.” In addition to rooftop solar panels, the Pentagon will also install a heat-recovery heat pump system and solar thermal […]

Tesla Cybertruck goes on Chinese tour, but will it be available?

  • January 18, 2024
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Tesla announced that it is bringing the Cybertruck on a tour in China, but it likely won’t be available there. At least not anytime soon, according to CEO Elon Musk. The Cybertruck’s novel design has made it super hard to get approved for US roads, even though that’s the market it was designed for. It […]

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What to Know About the Federal Law at the Heart of the Latest Supreme Court Abortion Case

  • January 18, 2024
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One of the newest battlefields in the abortion debate is a decades-old federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known by doctors and health policymakers as EMTALA. The issue involves whether the law requires hospital emergency rooms to provide abortions in urgent circumstances, including when a woman’s health is threatened by continuing […]

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How Much Less to Worry About Long COVID Now

  • January 18, 2024
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Compared with the worst days of the pandemic—when vaccines and antivirals were nonexistent or scarce, when more than 10,000 people around the world were dying each day, when long COVID largely went unacknowledged even as countless people fell chronically ill—the prognosis for the average infection with this coronavirus has clearly improved. In the past four […]

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Forta scores $55M to scale parent-led autism therapy platform

  • January 18, 2024
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AI-enabled, family-powered autism therapy company Forta announced it closed a $55 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners.  Alumni Ventures and Exor Ventures also participated in the round, as well as the founders of Forward, Flexport, Curative, 23&Me, Prelude Fertility, Warby Parker, Harry’s and Allbirds.  WHAT IT DOES Forta combines AI and LLMs […]