Senate has gone a full year without voting on Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn

Enlarge / Gigi Sohn testifies during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing examining her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Pool) One year ago today, President Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the empty spot on the Federal Communications Commission. Sohn, a longtime consumer advocate who worked for…

Scientists are getting energized about a massive battery ‘genome’ project

Battery testing equipment at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado in 2020. Dennis Schroeder / NREL Almost exactly 32 years ago, in October of 1990, scientists shoved off on an ambitious project to map the human genome—an ultimately successful initiative that involved sequencing the DNA that makes us who we are. It wrapped up…