PASADENA, California, Aug. 22 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales * Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (PhD '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated plasma. The solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, is much less dense  more

DENVER, Colorado, Aug. 23 -- The Colorado Public Utilities Commission issued the following weekly meeting agenda: * * * Consent Items TRANSPORTATION 1. PROCEEDING NO. 24A-0160R City of Englewood IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD FOR AUTHORITY TO COMPLETE AN UPGRADE TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS FOR THE INTERSECTION/CROSSING FROM A SPAN WIRE TO A MAST MOUNTED SIGNALS WHILE KEEPING THE EXISTING RAILROAD SIGNALS (245358A) IN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF13089) on Aug. 21, 2025, by public finance analyst Nicholas E. Buffie: * * * Economic Perspectives on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits P.L. 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), terminated three tax credits for plug-in electric vehicle (EV) purchases: the used clean vehicle credit (UCVC), the credit for qualified commercial clean vehicles (CQCCV), and th  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 22 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists posted the following news: * * * Guidance for tracking local impacts of the federal Justice40 cuts * Just hours after assuming office for his second term on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump ended via executive order one of the most ambitious efforts to embed energy and environmental justice in federal policy, covering hundreds of federal programs across multiple agencies: the Justice40 Initiative. This  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Blumenthal: Week in Review 8/15/2025-8/22/2025 * Fighting for Life-Saving Vaccine Programs [Hartford, CT] - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined doctors and advocates to slam a proposal to cut federal education funding from states that have narrow vaccine exemption policies like Connecticut. Despite the severity of this year's measles outbreak in Texas--the worst and dea  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Warren Releases New Data: More Massachusetts Residents At Risk of Losing Health Care, Food Assistance Under Republican Cuts * Bill threatens Medicaid coverage for nearly 350,000 Massachusetts residents and food assistance for 104,000 people Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released new data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), estimating that  more