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Calgary police is looking to return $25,000 worth of tools to their rightful owners.

Print As the world’s less affluent countries scramble for COVID-19 vaccine and contend with deadly surges of the disease, researchers in South Africa have just documented an ominous development: the collision of the pandemic with HIV/AIDS. Geneticists and infectious disease specialists there have uncovered potentially dangerous coronavirus mutations in a 36-year-old woman with uncontrolled HIV who was unable to shake the SARS-CoV-2 virus for close to eight months. The driving force behind the...

Calgary police have laid charges following the recovery of more than $25,000 in stolen tools and are now looking for the rightful owners. 

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Metro’s 6000 series rail cars remain sidelined after safety incidents Justin George © Bill OLeary/The Washington Post A train passes by in Silver Spring, Md. Metro rail cars that were sidelined in November after multiple incidents of cars separating while in service will stay off line, safety inspectors said Tuesday. The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission said the 6000 series cars, a nearly 20-year-old model that made up about 15 percent of Metro’s active rail ca...

The oil and gas industry and some Republican leaders are resisting new calls for mandated cybersecurity standards for pipelines in the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline.

Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! BROUILLETTE VERSUS CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS: Trump administration Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette says requiring pipelines to follow certain cybersecurity standards is not the answer to preventing future attacks like the one on the Colonial Pipeline. “I am not sure...

Share Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members. Hammond, who chairs MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, is renowned for her work in developing novel polymers and nanomaterials, while Chakraborty, the founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is a pioneer in applying computational techniques to challenges in the field o...

Credits: Hammond image: Bryce Vickmark. Chakraborty image: courtesy of Arup Chakraborty Previous image Next image Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members. Hammond, who chairs MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, is renowned for her work in developing novel polymers and nanomaterials, while Chakraborty, the founding director o...

Share This: Photo: DoD By the early 1970s, the U.S. was winding down its involvement in Vietnam. Nevertheless, there were still troops putting their lives on the line. And for Navy SEAL Thomas Norris, his heroism and refusal to abandon downed pilots would result in his being awarded the Medal of Honor. His incredible story was later made into the blockbuster film BAT-21, starring Gene Hackman.  Lt. Thomas Norris was an extraordinarily brave and quick-thinking SEAL. He was assigned to MACV-SOG...