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Holders of Bitcoin may be able to cash in some of their investment in the digital currency for a brand new electric car. Continue reading Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, will begin accepting digital currency as payment soon
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industry as a whole has a lot of work to do when it comes to adding diversity to its field.
Continue reading Why Representation Is So Important In The STEM Industry
Today is World Cancer Day. The theme of this year’s observance is “Together, all our actions matter.”
Ira Kurtz, MD, chief of Nephrology at UCLA Health, believes the kidney is the human body’s most fascinating organ — even smarter, he says, than the brain.
Robert Downey Jr is leading the Footprint Coalition, an investment fund that will try to spot fast-growing green technology businesses. He says much of his role will be about using his skills to tell a story about climate change, and the technology that can beat it, to his 100 million social media fans.
Continue reading Tech Tent: Iron Man’s Climate Change Mission
Andrew Brooks’s breakthrough helped millions get their results quickly in the early days of the pandemic when tests were scarce and lines were long.
Continue reading Andrew Brooks, Who Developed a Coronavirus Spit Test, Dies at 51
President Joe Biden plans to replace the government’s fleet of cars and trucks with electric vehicles assembled in the U.S., he said Monday when signing a new “Buy America” executive order.
Continue reading Biden Plans To Replace Government Fleet With Electric Vehicles
NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 28. This year’s NASA Day of Remembrance also marks 35 years since the Challenger tragedy.
Continue reading NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes with Day of Remembrance
Big Data dominates our economy. Yet, we don’t have consistent, standardized and real-time data on the jobs driving that 21stcentury-Big Data economy: science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Continue reading Why Big Data Is Failing Women In STEM And How To Fix It
BioNTech, the German firm which together with Pfizer created one of the COVID-19 vaccines, says they have used the same technology to create a vaccine which delayed the onset and reduced the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice.
