El Salvador became the first country in the world to use Bitcoin as legal currency. President Nayib Bukele has been at work modernizing the country since his election in 2019, including legalizing Bitcoin to help Salvadorans who don’t have access to traditional f
NASA has launched their Equity Action Plan in coordination with the Biden-Harris Administration. This new initiative hopes to remove barriers to participation from Historically Black Colleges & Universities as well as other Minority Serving Institutions in NASA’s
Former United States secretary of state, Colin Powell, died Monday as a result of COVID-19 complications, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. Retired Army four-star general and BEYA Stars & Stripes Founder, Johnnie Wilson, gave a state
Igor Almeida, (right), professor of biological sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, is the principal investigator of a new five-year grant worth $5,713,730 from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "We
Chile has announced a plan to bring computer science to every student. As the initiative grows, thousands of schools across the South American country will work to integrate coding into the national curriculum. A blog post by Code dot org said that thanks to th
Based on an analysis of cave formations, a new study has revealed that the climate of southwestern Brazil was wetter than it is now. Rock samples were collected from two stalagmites in Jaraguá Cave, near Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, and from stalagmites in São Ber
Have the labor market conditions of the nation’s 58.9 million Hispanics (who constitute 18.1 percent of the U.S. population) improved, stayed the same, or deteriorated over recent times? The authors of a new report "Hispanic–white wage gap has remained wide an
In 2016, the U.N. General Assembly declared June 30 International Asteroid Day. The Assembly’s decision was made based on a proposal by the Association of Space Explorers, endorsed by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. If all that's too out of
Thirteen Hampton University students visited Panama City as part of the William R. Harvey Leadership Institute International Service Learning. The program ran from May 14 – 23, 2018. “The Leadership Fellows truly embraced service learning from a cultural persp
Telemundo has issued a statement regarding the separation of migrant families seeking asylum in the United States. NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is a division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. "Telemundo is appalled at the current sit
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