February 1, 2012 | The.News correspondent Antonio Neves reports on the 13 billion devices connected to the Internet - the "Internet of Things." He talks to a Columbia University Professor and a director at IBM on how this interacting technology affects us and whether...
January 30, 2012 | Scientists are trying to develop tissue-like electronics that conform better to human organs. Elastic electronics, they call it. John Rogers, professor of material science and engineering at the University of Illinois has developed a device that can wrap around a...
January 25, 2012 | President Obama gave his third State of the Union address last night before members of Congress. He discussed ways to improve the economy, jobs and education, and called on Congress to put aside partisan differences to make decisions in the...
January 11, 2012 | When people think about Antarctica, they often think of cold, ice, and not many living things. But, scientists recently discovered that miles below the sea near Antarctica, marine life is flourishing near underwater 'hot spots' created by geothermal activity. Scientists...
January 4, 2012 | Researchers at U.C. Berkeley are using cutting-edge technology to tap into the human brain. It's not mind-reading per say, but they are trying to piece together how parts of the brain react to what it sees in the world. According...
December 29, 2011 | Scientists in Kenya are taking part in a complicated and long-lasting global fight against Ug99, a fungal disease called 'wheat rust' that could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Plant scientists Peter Njao and Ruth Wanyera said the...
December 16, 2011 | Regeneration of human body parts has posed a challenge to scientists for generations, but now one group of researchers is closer than ever to developing a way to re-grow human organs and limbs. By using body parts from other animals...
December 13, 2011 | Washington's Puget Sound is severely polluted with chemicals, fertilizers and other runoff that enters the waterway through storm drains. When it rains, the rainwater takes pollutants from the streets and people's lawns directly into the area's waterways. A group of...
December 8, 2011 | After 20 years and $600 million worth of research, NASA scientists announced they found the first planet in the habitable, or liveable, zone. Reports say the planet, Kepler-22b, is similar to Earth, though bigger, and the temperature averages about 72...
December 6, 2011 | Scientists say that there are only a few sources of power so far discovered by humans that can meet the energy demands of today's society: Fossil fuels, nuclear power, wind, and solar power are all capable of producing enough power...
December 2, 2011 | The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been using full body scanners in airports for about a year now, and many scientists continue to wonder whether they pose a health risk to travelers because of the small amount of radiation they...
November 29, 2011 | NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the recent launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. It will take Curiosity, the space exploration vehicle, nine months and approximately 354 million miles to get...
November 18, 2011 | Months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan, scientists are hard at work trying to figure out a way to keep tsunamis from causing similar destruction in the future. Through mechanical engineering, safe building and early...
November 11, 2011 | Although the devastating tsunami that destroyed Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and villages along the country's northeast coast happened more than six months ago, pockets of radiation from the crippled plant remain in many parts of the country. The group...
November 8, 2011 | As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on the destructive lure of gold in remote areas of Peru. In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon lies one...
October 5, 2011 | Three American physicists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for their realization that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate thus transforming our understanding of how the cosmos works. Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley...
October 3, 2011 | As energy prices continue to rise, many homeowners are seeking ways to reduce their monthly bills. For one new homeowner who will soon live in a solar house, those energy bills will become a thing of the past. Lakiya Culley...
September 28, 2011 | Tourists in the nation's capital watched in awe as engineers rappeled down the sides of the Washington Monument. The engineers are members of the Difficult Access Team from Chicago and their mission was to make checks for cracks and other...
September 16, 2011 | You've probably heard that earthworms are good for the soil and can help create rich dirt for healthy gardens. And while earthworms may seem like harmless creatures, scientists are finding that certain earthworm species can be deadly to trees and...
September 8, 2011 | If you live in the Northern hemisphere and consider yourself a stargazer, then grab your telescope or binoculars and head no further than your backyard. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently discovered a supernova about 21 million light...
September 7, 2011 | After the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed in the 9/11 attacks, engineers started paying a lot more attention to the materials used to construct skyscrapers. Today, those overseeing the construction of new buildings at Ground Zero are especially conscious...
August 24, 2011 | A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the East Coast of the U.S. yesterday, causing minor damage and shocking many who are not used to such seismic events. Office workers flooded streets in downtown Washington, D.C. after the shaking, which was felt...
August 5, 2011 | Co-directed and produced by filmmakers Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha, "Made in India," documents the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business that brings them together. In the film, viewers are introduced to...
August 2, 2011 | Scientists have discovered an asteroid that is locked in a permanent dance around the sun with planet Earth. The asteroid is in the same orbit as Earth, meaning it will always travel at the same speed around the sun and...
August 1, 2011 | Five years have passed since honeybees began dying in large numbers and hives started becoming extinct. Scientists are still trying to figure out why this is happening and what can be done to help the problem. Many continue to fear...
July 29, 2011 | In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, a group of teenagers is currently trekking through some of the most remote country on Earth - a part of Northern British Columbia through which the Thelon River flows. Along the way, they'll encounter...
July 13, 2011 | They're tiny, they're speckled -- and they're disappearing. Many native species of ladybugs are vanishing, and citizen scientists from all over the nation, including kids, are helping professional scientists survey the entire country by collecting ladybug specimens, photographing them and...
July 12, 2011 | Located in a remote area of northern China, the Xiangtangshan caves once contained shrines to religious figures called Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,containing statues and carvings that date back more than 2500 years. Over the years, however, the caves were repeatedly looted...
July 11, 2011 | NASA's final space shuttle launch took place on Friday, July 8, destined for the International Space Station with four crew members on board. The launch marked a historic day for the space agency and for the country, as the three-decade-long...
July 8, 2011 | As the U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end, space enthusiasts are eyeing the next prize in space travel: Mars. One of the biggest challenges for humans traveling to Mars will be the long-term isolation they will experience, so...
July 4, 2011 | Inventors, scientists and "do-it-yourself-ers" recently gathered, along with their best gadgets and inventions, at an event called the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif. The annual gathering is meant to encourage invention and innovation among kids and adults alike, and...
June 30, 2011 | Scientists, engineers and builders of all ages gather every year in San Francisco to celebrate their love of inventing things through an event called The Bay Area Maker Faire. The Maker Faire has become a gathering place for those who...
May 19, 2011 | Crew members on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's last mission answered the public's questions in a unique video conference led by NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien. The astronauts discussed social media, Mars exploration and the recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during...
May 16, 2011 | When you hear the words virtual reality or 3D glasses, you may be inclined to think of the newest video game or watching a movie at a local theater, but what if this same technology allowed students and researchers to...
May 12, 2011 | Communities along the Mississippi River continue to prepare for massive flooding that is making its way downriver toward Louisiana. The Army Corps of Engineers is using a huge system of levees and spillways to try to control where the water...
April 25, 2011 | Much of the Gulf Coast oil spill story can be seen in photos from the tragedy. Gerald Herbert, a professional photographer covered the spill and returned for the one year anniversary to see how things had changed. He found some...
April 22, 2011 | In New York City public schools there are more than 7,000 students with varying degrees of autism. At PS 176 in the Bronx, 700 students from preschool age to 21, go to school every day and federal law mandates that...
April 19, 2011 | More than 240 tornadoes ripped through several southern states over the past week, leaving a trail of devastation. Over 60 tornadoes were recorded in North Carolina alone and at least 44 people died in half-a-dozen states. Winds of up to...
April 18, 2011 | It's been a year since the explosion of a BP oil rig that leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and reports are mixed over how the area's recovery and cleanup efforts are going. While visible...
April 15, 2011 | Arctic explorer and filmmaker Sebastian Copeland and his partner Keith Heger trekked 400 miles on foot across virtually impossible terrain while dragging a 200-pound sled in temperatures as low as -50 degrees Fahrenheit to reach the North Pole. As sea...
March 30, 2011 | As Japan struggles to contain the fallout from four failed nuclear reactors, the world has developed renewed interest in Chernobyl, the site of the most serious nuclear accident to date. NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien found that nearly 25 years...
March 23, 2011 | On World Water Day, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on innovative techniques to assist slum dwellers in Bangladesh in getting access to clean water. This report is the most recent in a series on global population issues in collaboration with...
March 17, 2011 | It's an exciting time to be exploring space, since scientists say humans now know more about the solar system we live in than ever before and our knowledge continues to grow. Currently, a spacecraft called Messenger that has been en...
March 16, 2011 | A series of reports from the Independent Television Network examines how survivors of the deadly 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami are coping with multiple crises. In the aftermath of the March 11 events, several explosions at nuclear plants have heightened...
March 15, 2011 | The biggest source of concern in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan are three of the country's nuclear power plants which were damaged in the quake and may be leaking radiation. Scientists are unsure how extensive...
March 14, 2011 | The 8.9-maginitude earthquake that struck Japan on Friday, sent tsunami waves rippling across the Pacific for thousands of miles in every direction. Countries around the Pacific Rim from South Asia, Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, Alaska, Canada, the mainland U.S. and...
March 11, 2011 | An 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan overnight, causing massive destruction and triggering a tsunami that washed away houses, buildings and farmland across a large swath of northeastern Japan. Although Japan is among the most prepared countries for earthquakes, this quake...
March 10, 2011 | A rampant fungal disease called White Nose Syndrome has scientists across the country worried about one of the ecosystem's most important participants: bats. The disease, which began in New York but now threatens to spread to the Pacific Northwest, makes...
February 25, 2011 | On Feb. 24, the space shuttle Discovery was launched into space for its final mission before NASA retires the U.S. space shuttle program. Originally, the space shuttle program was pitched to Congress as a way to make space travel routine...
February 17, 2011 | Jeopardy!, a game that requires vast human knowledge, has been conquered by a computer. Watson, a machine built by IBM, is able to answer most Jeopardy! questions with remarkable accuracy, often beating seasoned human champions at the trivia game. While...
February 14, 2011 | Correspondent Jon Meacham of the PBS program, "Need to Know", reports on how physical education is transforming academics at a suburban Chicago high school. Naperville Central, a public high school of almost 3,000 students uses exercise to not only get...
February 10, 2011 | NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from California on how to identify young people with mental illnesses before their problems become worse. The Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis program, or PREP, based in San Francisco, is designed to identify and...
February 9, 2011 | What are "dirty bombs"? PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien examines the threat that radioactive "dirty bombs" pose to cities in the U.S., and what is being done to prevent a radiological attack. Unlike an atomic weapon, the radioactive materials...
February 4, 2011 | NASA recently announced a major discovery, achieved through the use of its Kepler space telescope: scientists have identified as many as 1,200 likely new planets, several of which could harbor life. NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien says this is a...
January 20, 2011 | Often times the mere site of an eight legged arachnid--commonly known as a spider--evokes a not so pleasant feeling. But scientists are finding innovative ways to use the silk spiders spin to benefit humans. Who knew that spider silk has...
January 6, 2011 | What is constant multi-tasking doing to teens' brains? That's the question NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien set out to answer as he interviewed teens and neuroscience experts around the country. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are currently studying...
January 3, 2011 | Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico are trying to determine the recent BP oil spill's impact on the area's ecosystem by testing an organism that's very low on the food chain: fish larvae. By testing menhaden, a type of fish...
December 3, 2010 | Seventeen miles north of Yogyakarta, a city in Indonesia, looms a killer the locals call the "mountain of fire." Peaking at 9,738 feet in elevation, the volcano known as Mount Merapi has recently wreaked havoc on the Southeast Asian country....
December 1, 2010 | Scientists in Colorado have unearthed a rare find: fossils dating all the way back to the Ice Age, between 45,000 and 125,000 years ago. Construction workers were excavating a hillside to make a ski area when they discovered hundreds of...
November 1, 2010 | In a Boston warehouse scientists have reached the final stages of creating a new breed of robot. BigDog is not your cute Hollywood R2-D2 kind of robot or a member of the household like Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons....
September 23, 2010 | Now that the well that spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months has been capped, researchers and Gulf coast residents are looking at the fallout for the region's delicate wetlands. The oil has killed off many patches of...
August 26, 2010 | An ultra-light, energy-saving vehicle that gets 100 miles per gallon is not just a dream - it's reality for a team of engineers working to win the Progressive Automotive X-prize competition. The X-prize, a $5 million cash prize designed to...
August 16, 2010 | On August 16, many shrimping grounds in the Gulf of Mexico re-opened for harvesting as the Gulf shrimping season began. But, many shrimpers and fishermen are still concerned that their catch might not be safe to eat, since they fear...
August 12, 2010 | Once all the oil from the Gulf spill has been skimmed, mopped and soaked up, workers are left with one question: where to put it all? As The NewsHour's Tom Bearden reports, even though oil cleanup is monitored extensively by...
August 9, 2010 | With childhood obesity at an all time high in the United States, two New York culinary chefs are touring the country and giving classes to lunch room attendants who prepare meals in public schools. Kate Adamick and Andrea Martin are...
August 6, 2010 | Many in the Gulf Coast believe that when the cameras leave, so to will the government and BP's clean up efforts. The skepticism amongst the region's residents is steadfast, as they've had to deal with the lasting effects of past...
August 3, 2010 | Jean-Michel Cousteau, the son of famous oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau, worked alongside his father for decades and later followed in his footsteps by becoming an environmentalist and filmmaker about ocean life. Now, the younger Cousteau has written a retrospective book about...
July 30, 2010 | Simple touch is lacking in a medical field overrun with technology, asserts Stanford Medical School professor and author Abraham Verghese. It's a basic practice lost in the ever evolving field. Often physicians in the West rely heavily on technology like...
July 26, 2010 | Debates have been raging over whether using chemical dispersants to clean up the Gulf oil spill was a good idea. Some scientists and government officials insist using the dispersants is better than using nothing, while others argue the chemicals do...
July 23, 2010 | As the nations worst environmental disaster in history nears the 100 day mark, concerns have arisen about the methods taken to clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Buras, Louisiana about...
July 16, 2010 | Eighty-five days, 16 hours, 25 minutes. That's how long oil had been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, until yesterday afternoon when it finally stopped. After nearly 184 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf, BP managed to stave...
July 9, 2010 | As oil continues to infiltrate the delicate marshlands along the Gulf coast, researchers from the University of Alabama are working to find out whether tiny microbes that eat oil could be used in the cleanup effort. Unlike beaches, which can...
June 16, 2010 | The periodic table lists chemical elements in order of the number of protons in their nucleus. Elements on the bottom row--those that have protons numbering in the 60s and 90s--are called rare earth minerals, and they are what make your...
June 2, 2010 | Jean-Michel Cousteau, ocean explorer and son of the famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, recently dove down into the oil-filled Gulf waters to take a look at what was going on beneath the surface. What he and his team saw made him...
May 27, 2010 | Photojournalist Gerald Herbert has documented the entire course of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf, from the rig explosion to the slick's impact on fishermen and wildlife. Herbert, a Louisiana native, says the oil's impact on Southern Louisiana is...
April 19, 2010 | Classical thinking says that rewarding individuals with high pay will bring about the highest performance and buy the greatest talent; but new science says that may be outmoded thinking. Some social scientists say motivating people with excessive salaries may have...
April 16, 2010 | While drinkable running water and indoor toilets are standard in the United States, some of the world's poorest still live without basic sanitation. NewsHour Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports that in slums outside of Nairobi, Kenya, people for generations...
April 9, 2010 | Southern Sudan is the last holdout in a decades-long campaign to eradicate guinea worm, a painful and crippling parasite. The guinea worm grows up to three feet in length and lives just below the skin, often crippling its human host....
February 23, 2010 | Thirty-three-year-old Salman Khan is not your average hedge fund analyst. In fact, he recently quit his job to devote himself to an unpaid job teaching math on the Internet. His site, The Khan Academy, has already received the 2009 Tech...
February 9, 2010 | A new concept that uses acting and the theater to help unlock the inner grief and suffering that many soldiers bring back from war zones, is catching on, and some think not a minute too soon. According to a 2008...
January 26, 2010 | While Asian carp have been bred in China for over 1,000 years, they are an invasive and entirely destructive species to the Mississippi river and now in the Great Lakes. They can range in size from 50 to 100 pounds...
January 13, 2010 | A major earthquake tore through the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti on Tuesday, striking just 10 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince. The earthquake reached a 7.0 on the Richter scale making it the largest ever recorded in the area. In...
January 5, 2010 | Do you remember life before the iPod, smart phones, and wifi-internet access? In 2000, less than half of the United States was online. Now more than three quarters is plugged in. Desktop work computers used to be people's main access...
December 21, 2009 | After spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Florida inmate James Bain has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence. A court-mandated DNA test proved Bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault...
December 18, 2009 | Like millions of villages in the developing world, food in North India's rural communities is cooked with wood or cow dung - emitting black carbon or soot that can cause not only lung disease, but global warming according to climatologist...
December 16, 2009 | In one of the planet's coldest places, high in the Himalayas, the glaciers are melting. Some scientists are very worried about what will happen when the glaciers no longer feed freshwater into the rivers of Asia, while others contend that...
December 15, 2009 | As world leaders attempt to hammer out a deal about permanent reductions in green house gasses, far away in China, workers toil to process "rare earth" minerals that are necessary for many of the new carbon cutting technologies. Producing rare...
December 2, 2009 | An eight-year drought in southeastern Australia is endangering the livelihood of farmers who depend on water to grow staple crops that help feed people around the world. Many Australians believe that the drying up of the Murray-Darling Basin, an area...
November 2, 2009 | The Solix Biofuels Company out in the Colorado Desert is one of about 200 companies trying to find a way to make biofuels out of algae by extracting its natural oils. The company has found an investment partner in the...
October 29, 2009 | Dr. Kinari Webb runs an environmentally friendly health clinic on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo that offers patients living in extreme poverty access to affordable health care. Health in Harmony allows patients to pay for treatment in everything from...
October 22, 2009 | In this video, NewsHour Health Unit correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on concerns over the possible H1N1 flu vaccine shortage that is causing chaos at hospitals as flu season approaches. She visits a Maryland public health clinic where about 2,000...
October 20, 2009 | To study the history of climate change, scientists from 14 nations gathered in the far north end of Greenland to drill into the 1.6-mile core of solid ice. The goal of the North Greenland Eemian ice drilling project, or NEEM,...
October 12, 2009 | Hoping to confirm suspicions that there is water in the form frozen ice that could sustain life on the moon, NASA scientists crashed an LCROSS lunar probe into a moon crater last week. According to space reporter and former NASA...
October 5, 2009 | New research published in the journal Science last week announced new findings 17 years in the making from a 4.4 million year old human ancestor. The new discovery suggests the line of human evolution may be much more complex than...
September 30, 2009 | In this video, NewsHour Science Unit correspondent Spencer Michels looks how politics can get in the way of fixing important infrastructure problems. He reports from San Francisco where engineers and politicians have battled over how to fix the earthquake-prone San...
September 14, 2009 | Since the swine flu outbreak began last spring and spread to more than 100 countries researchers have been working around the clock to come up with an effective shot in sufficient quantities before too many people got sick. In the...
September 8, 2009 | Until the 1990s, most students in the American school system had "shop class" - a period devoted to making things out of wood or metal, or learning how to repair cars and other machines. But "shop class" soon became computer...
September 4, 2009 | "The World at Night" is a traveling photography exhibit sponsored by Astronomers Without Borders, an organization that uses photography to promote the idea that everyone around the world shares a common night sky. In this audio slideshow, astronomers and photographers...
September 3, 2009 | While wildfires rage on in California, another western state has had its share of forest fires in recent years. Average spring temperatures have risen nearly three degrees in Washington State since 1950. Scientists and researchers are noticing that with the...
August 21, 2009 | While Oklahoma has long been associated with oil and natural gas production, some of the state's young people are turning to its burgeoning wind turbine industry for jobs amidst a recession and global energy crisis. Oklahoma's secretary of commerce and...
August 13, 2009 | President Barack Obama awarded 16 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest award for civilians. Among the list of honorees was retired...
August 5, 2009 | In parts of Southeast Asia, setting a bird free from its cage is a tradition that symbolizes improving a person's soul. But public health workers are now concerned that birds in markets in the region could be spreading H5N1, the...
July 29, 2009 | Recently released findings show that calling or texting while driving may be significantly more dangerous than previously assumed. The studies found that drivers making a phone call were four times more likely to crash and that texting was twice as...
July 22, 2009 | 40 years after the astronauts of the space shuttle Apollo 11 captured the nation's imagination with the first moon landing, government officials are questioning whether human space exploration is still worth the price. Sending humans to the moon costs the...
June 22, 2009 | The launch of two satellites bound for the moon last week marked the beginning of NASA's new plan for human spaceflight. The spacecraft will look for potential landing sites, measure radiation, and search for water. NASA is also moving ahead...
June 1, 2009 | This video is two minute report of President Obama announcing his new White House position coordinating the nation's digital security, saying the country faces what he called a transformational moment. You can use this to introduce a general conversation, or...
May 20, 2009 | President Obama announced sweeping new standards on gas mileage and auto emissions. The new standard would increase the fuel economy of vehicles sold in the United States to a minimum of 35.5 miles per gallon (cars 39 miles per gallon...
May 12, 2009 | NASA launched the Atlantis shuttle and its six-member crew into space on Monday to repair the 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. The Atlantis crew will spend 11 days working on Hubble, adding a new camera and fixing...
May 5, 2009 | NewsHour Correspondent Ray Suarez is in Mexico City this week, where health officials are optimistic that the spread of H1N1 "swine flu" virus is waning. With the help of the antiviral drug, Tamiflu, more flu patients are recovering and leaving...
May 1, 2009 | With the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, now detected in at least 16 U.S. states some local communities are now taking forceful steps to prevent the virus' continued spread. More than a hundred individual schools have closed...
April 24, 2009 | Battlefield robots are nothing new in Hollywood, but they aren't just science fiction anymore. The military has deployed thousands of them for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robots, thus far, have been used mostly to inspect and dismantle roadside bombs....
April 23, 2009 | Students from across the country applied technical and scientific knowledge to design a city of the future, imagine how it would work and what it would be like to live there in the 17th Annual Future City National Competition. More...
April 20, 2009 | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a significant threat to public health, opening the door to new government action on climate change. The EPA reviewed possible health dangers from global warming caused...
April 15, 2009 | After years of being on the market solar and alternative energy schemes seemed to finally catch on as photovoltaic installations were up 75 percent last year, and a recent industry report says solar, along with wind and biofuels, continued another...
March 31, 2009 | After years of research and billions of dollars, California scientists believe that they are close to producing fusion, the same power that makes the sun burn, as an alternative source of energy. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in...
March 16, 2009 | With the economy is such a fragile state, President Barack Obama must walk the fine line between inspiring optimism and fostering realistic expectations for the future. In this video, regular NewsHour commentator Mark Shields and former Reagan speechwriter Michael Gerson,...
February 18, 2009 | President Obama has made changing U.S. energy policy to rely more on renewable sources a top priority. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to push his large and influential state to 33% renewable energy by 2020. Northern California's Pacific...
January 23, 2009 | As the economy continues to fumble, once infallible high tech firms are also proving they are affected by the market. This week Microsoft and Intel announced job cuts- the first time ever for Microsoft-bringing the total amount of tech industry...
December 31, 2008 | The International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) invites students from around the world to craft biological "machines," or living organisms, using original combinations of DNA and other organic material to help tackle environmental and health problems. Synthetic biology is a...
November 14, 2008 | Some researchers believe that more than five million square miles of the Pacific Ocean has become a garbage patch of plastic trash from North America and Asia. The trash is carried from shorelines by ocean currents to an area called...
October 21, 2008 | The aging infrastructure of roads and bridges in America was in the spotlight last year when a bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 commuters. Most of the country's transportation infrastructure of roads and bridges was put in place in the...
October 9, 2008 | More than 35 years after Congress passed the Clean Water Act mandating that all waters in the United States be both fishable and swimmable, this goal has yet to be met. Scientists say that storm water runoff can cause large...
September 11, 2008 | Scientists celebrated this week when they successfully sent subatomic particles at a very high speed around a 17-mile underground tunnel in Geneva, Switzerland, called the Large Hadron Collider. The contraption might allow researchers to learn more about the creation of...
August 18, 2008 | In this video report, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels looks into how large businesses are producing new "green" household goods, catering to a new demand for environmentally-friendly products. Michels talks to representatives from cleaning product company Clorox, which is trying to...
August 15, 2008 | In this video discussion, University of Chicago scientist Paul Sereno tells the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about how his team, looking for dinosaur bones in Niger, Africa, found two populations of humans in a burial ground; the bodies are 6,000 to...
August 7, 2008 | This video report looks at the story of Bruce Ivins, an Army microbiologist who committed suicide just as federal prosecutors were preparing to file criminal charges against him in connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people. You...
May 15, 2008 | In an unusual decision, the Interior Department declared the polar bear species to be officially "threatened," under the Endangered Species Act, because of global warming. Scientific evidence shows that the shrinking Arctic ice cap will no longer support the polar...
