STEM
Smithsonian Magazine
A team of astrophysicists proposed launching moon dust into space as a sunshade to slow global warming, publishing the geoengineering idea in the journal PLOS Climate.
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LOCAL
U.S. Department of Justice
Cedric Lodge, the manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, was indicted and later pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains after an investigation revealed he had been selling body parts taken from donated cadavers. Between 2018 and at least March 2020, Lodge removed organs, brains, skin, hands, and other parts from bodies donated to Harvard for medical research without the knowledge of the university, the donors, or their families.
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INDUSTRY
TechCrunch
Rivian announced it would adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard, becoming one of the first major automakers to follow Ford and General Motors in embracing the connector.
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NATIONS
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley introduced the bipartisan Retired Officers Conflict of Interest Act to curb the largely opaque process by which retired U.S. military officers gain approval to work for foreign governments.
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