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Oceanwell And Las Virgenes Municipal Water District Launch California Water Farm 1 With Capacity Of 60 Million Gallons Per Day As Six Agencies Join Project
MENAFN
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August 15, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Water Farm 1 scales from 10 MGD to up to 60 MGD to provide reliable supplies for seven water agencies across drought-prone Southern California OceanWell's subsea desalination pods harness ocean pressure to reduce energy use...
Bald eagles stun scientists with bizarre migration pattern
Popular Science
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August 15, 2025
How do researchers track the movement of wild animals (especially birds) that can travel hundreds of miles a day? By gently equipping them with GPSs. A team in Arizona equipped bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) with the monitors to study...
California may forgive hospital loans as Medicaid cuts loom
The Bond Buyer - New York
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August 15, 2025
Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister was among those that received loans from California's program for distressed hospitals.San Benito Health Care District The Trump/GOP Medicaid cuts mean California may have to activate the loan...
Trump ordered to restore millions in frozen science funding to UCLA
Fortune
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in National Science Foundation grants it has withheld from the University of California, Los Angeles, saying they were made in violation of her earlier court...
The Scientific Debate over Colossal’s ‘De-extinct’ Dire Wolves
Scientific American
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August 15, 2025
For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited cells and injected them into egg cells from a...
Exclusive: Czinger 21C Breaks 5 California Track Records
HotCars
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August 15, 2025
When Czinger Vehicles revealed the 21C a few years ago, they set the stage for redefining innovation and what a 3D-printed hypercar could be. This year, Czinger arrived with five track records, a thousand miles under their belt, and a powerful...
Kids hated the presidential fitness test. Researchers aren’t fans, either.
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania
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Hey, did you hear that President Donald Trump plans to bring back the presidential fitness test? The news that the once-nationwide fitness test for young people might soon return ricocheted across social media and countless group text chains. “I’d...
California Could Save $225 Million A Year by Letting State Employees Work Remote
Sonoma Valley Sun - California
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August 15, 2025
by Maya C. Miller This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have arbitrarily ordered workers back to the office without using specific rationale such as data on worker...
Researchers Remodel Failed Malaria Drug Into a Winner
Technology Networks
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The search for new ways to treat malaria — a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa — may have just gotten a boost. Chemists at UC San Francisco have found a way to rearrange the atoms in a new...
Researchers Remodel Failed Malaria Drug Into a Winner
Technology Networks
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The search for new ways to treat malaria — a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa — may have just gotten a boost. Chemists at UC San Francisco have found a way to rearrange the atoms in a new...
Amprius Technologies’ Blowout Quarter Fuels Record-Setting Growth
myMotherLode - California
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Amprius Technologies Today $7.07 -0.37 (-4.99%) As of 12:13 PM Eastern This is a fair market value price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. 52-Week Range $0.61▼$9.66 Price Target $11.71 A significant operational and financial transformation is...
With U.S. funding for science at risk, a longtime advocate sees ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
STAT - Massachusetts
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August 15, 2025
For most of Mary Woolley’s career, science and politics have existed harmoniously. On only a few occasions have they become misaligned, said Woolley, who has served as president and CEO of the research advocacy group Research!America since 1990....
Interview with Political Science professor Mark Jones
Spectrum News Austin
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August 15, 2025
Captial Tonight's James Barragan talks with Political Science professor Mark Jones of Rice University, about California's new redistricting plan, and what impact, if any, it is likely to have on the newly-drawn Texas maps.
New England Revolution face Los Angeles FC after shutout victory
Associated Press
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August 15, 2025
Los Angeles FC (10-6-7, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. New England Revolution (7-11-7, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Foxborough, Massachusetts; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: LAFC +113, New England +227, Draw +242;...
Organizers of Los Angeles 2028 Olympics break with tradition on venue naming rights
Yahoo News
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Organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will sell naming rights for some competition venues to "unlock an additional revenue stream" in a move that breaks with Games tradition of forbidding brand names on stadiums and arenas. In a statement...
Mariannette Miller-Meeks highlights science tour and state fair visits on social media
River Bend Times - Iowa
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August 15, 2025
U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who serves Iowa’s 1st district in Congress, shared updates on social media highlighting her recent activities, including a visit to Ames National Laboratory and experiences at the Iowa State Fair.On...
Scientists warn a new weather phenomenon dubbed the 'FIREWAVE' will devastate UK cities as summers become hotter and drier
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Scientists have warned that a new weather phenomenon dubbed the 'firewave' has the potential to devastate UK cities. As climate change makes summers hotter and drier, there is a growing risk that wildfires will spread within the heart of the UK's...
Wash. researchers study climate through butterflies
The Columbian - Washington State
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TACOMA — A flash of orange darted between blue broadleaf lupine, magenta paintbrush and pink-white mountain daisies before the small butterfly disappeared into the sky. “That’s another California tortoiseshell,” Regina Rochefort called out,...
California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what’s next
Grist Magazine
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August 15, 2025
Within the past year, two major California oil refineries have announced plans to shutter — moves that will pull about one quarter of a million barrels from the state’s daily supply of gasoline. For a state that has been a standard-bearer in the...
Logunova Beauty Salon Announces Health-Conscious Beauty Innovation At Los Angeles Premier Beauty Salon Location
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) "Logunova Beauty Salon offers a luxurious and modern setting where clients can enjoy premium hair, nail, skincare, and makeup services in the heart of Los Angeles."Logunova Beauty Salon revolutionizes the Los Angeles beauty...