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National Defense September 2015 Stew Magnuson	Face It: The World Is a Hacker's Playground This has huge implications for the military and those who work in the intelligence community who have secrets worth keeping.
Chemistry World August 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Obama's clean power plan stirs controversy The American Chemistry Council has expressed concern that the plan might harm growth and job creation in the US chemical sector by raising costs for businesses and consumers.
Information Today August 4, 2015	The USDA and Microsoft Present a Data-Centric Food Resiliency Challenge The challenge will explore how climate change will impact the U.S.'s food supply and how the country can achieve better food resiliency.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons As drones become more ubiquitous, prisons are struggling with the question of how to protect against contraband deliveries from the skies.
Chemistry World July 31, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US government science institute's one time police chief linked to campus meth lab A methamphetamine lab was discovery at the NIST's Maryland facility, prompting questions over security at the institute.
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Big business backs White House on climate change Thirteen of the US's largest companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart, have pledged to slash their carbon footprints.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Obama Issues Executive Order To Build Fastest Supercomputer By 2025 An executive order was signed on Wednesday creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative, which will coordinate research, development, and deployment of ultra-powerful computer systems.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Google's Project Wing Swoops Into Drone Air Traffic Control Conversation Dave Vos, who heads up the search giant's secretive version of a delivery drone -- talked about how the company wants to join with some of technology's biggest players in a broad air-traffic control system.
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther	US government uncovers safety failings at nuclear lab Safety failings at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been described as 'unsatisfactory' by the US government.
Information Today July 28, 2015 Barbie E. Keiser	The Consumer Expenditure Survey Gets a Makeover Detailed data from the CE survey on how Americans spend money is used as the basis for all sorts of policy decisions made by the government and businesses.
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