ANN ARBOR— Mark your calendars for the upcoming A2ZERO Household Electronics Collection events taking place Saturdays, Oct. 11and Nov. 15, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. These events are hosted by the City of Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovations (OSI) in collaboration with Comprenew, an e-stewards certified Michigan-based nonprofit that recycles and refurbishes electronics sustainably and
LANSING - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer participated in a series of behind-closed-door meetings with Democratic lawmakers last week to help secure votes she needed to get a new budget and a road funding plan through the House and Senate. On Thursday night, Democrats who have a majority of the seats in the Senate were struggling
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential announced that Michigan has been selected as one of 10 states for the NASA and U.S. Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers collaboration and will be training with NASA. This innovative program is designed to provide middle school students with engaging opportunities
LONDON - New extraordinary images of the interstellar object flying through our solar system have been released, sparking fresh theories about its origins. Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is a comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape. Stargazers on social
CHICAGO - EV drivers across Illinois can now access flat-rate fast charging for $15 per session, thanks to Universal EV Chargers’ new no-hidden-fee pricing. That means drivers can plug in, power up, and get back on the road without worrying about time-based pricing or surprise surcharges. Most EVs will reach 80% charge in about 30
LOUISVILLE - A Kentucky medical marijuana cultivation facility has harvested its first yield of cannabis, and patients could gain access to it by next month, a top regulator says. Meanwhile, the governor says licensed businesses are about to “grow a whole lot more” as the program gets underway. Cannon Armstrong, executive director of the Office
NEW YORK - Since the arrival of the large language models (LLMs) that have now seeped into seemingly every nook and cranny of our digital lives, scientists, experts, industry leaders, and pretty much everyone else have some opinion on AI and where it’s headed. Some researchers who’ve studied the emergence of machine intelligence think that the singularity—the
WASHINGTON DC - A house-sized asteroid is rocketing towards us at 36,126 miles an hour. Scientists have given it the catchy name “2025 TC” and have noted that it’ll pass within 53,400 miles of the Earth’s surface later today. That might sound like a long way away, but in cosmic terms it’s the equivalent of
COLUMBUS - Whether city officials across Ohio perceived it as a goose that would lay golden eggs or simply another bucket from which to pull funds, they've been counting on marijuana tax revenues that haven't yet arrived. Ohio voters agreed to legal language in 2023 that the governor signed into the state budget this July
CLEVELAND - Some recent court decisions have left advocates for policies restricting the sale and availability of intoxicating hemp products encouraged that legislation could be passed in Ohio sooner rather than later — including every stakeholder in the state’s licensed marijuana industry. Key among those cases, as well as the most recent, is Bio Gen
