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	2010 DECEMBER Dec. 28, 2010 'Secrets Beneath the Ice' Goes Back in Time to Predict the Future NOVA's latest documentary, 'Secrets Beneath the Ice,' examines how Antarctica will be affected by the predicted 3-5 degree increase in temperature.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Should the Government Control Who Tracks You Online? The Federal Trade Commission earlier this month proposed the creation of a so-called do-not-track option for Web users. Ray Suarez speaks with FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Mike Zaneis, general counsel of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, about the state of Internet privacy practices, concerns and proposed regulation.

	Dec. 27, 2010 What We're Reading: Climate Science, Exoplanets and TB Sniffing Rats A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning A profile of Charles David Keeling, who created the first instruments to accurately measure carbon dioxide in the air and collected samples from the remote top of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Delete Older Facebook Apps -- or Risk Everyone's Privacy If you have a Facebook page, you've probably downloaded quite a few apps.

	Dec. 23, 2010 FCC's Net Neutrality Order Released Two days ago, a divided Federal Communications Commission adopted rules enforcing network neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, regardless of origin. On Thursday, on the last working day before the Christmas holiday is observed, the FCC released what commissioners actually voted on.

	Dec. 23, 2010 The Bitter Taste of Genetics Cheek swabs, taste buds tests and tongues dyed blue -- it's all part of an experiment on taste genetics at the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. Reporter Rebecca Jacobson took a test drive through the tasting process.

	Dec. 21, 2010 FCC Rolls Out New Rules for Regulating Internet Traffic The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved new rules, known as net neutrality, for regulating how information and traffic flow on the Internet. Jeffrey Brown talks to Washington Post reporter Cecilia Kang for more.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Just Ask: Probing the Sun ... How Close Can We Get? Here's this week's Just Ask! science query: At what point would a spacecraft approaching the sun vaporize?

	Dec. 21, 2010 Divided FCC OKs Net Neutrality Rules The Federal Communications Commission's 3-2 vote on new rules regulating the Internet went much as expected on Tuesday. Explore the new rules, the guiding principles and the mixed reactions.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Reliving the Total Eclipse of the Moon Last night, for the first time in 372 years, the winter solstice coincided with a total lunar eclipse. For those who were robbed of the spectacle by overcast weather, or those who couldn't spare the sleep, here are some tools to experience or relive it.

	Dec. 20, 2010 Calling all Night Owls and Moon Gazers: Total Lunar Eclipse in Tonight's Sky During a total lunar eclipse, the moon has been known to turn dazzling colors: blood red, deep copper orange, and sometimes dark grey or brown.

	Dec. 20, 2010 What We're Reading: Year-end Wraps, Interstellar Space and Mushroom Mold Biochemist Photo-Fiddler Here's a fun, visual story on a GlaxoSmithKline biochemist who, in his spare time, used small mirrors, PVC pipes and an old computer hard drive to design a specialized camera that snaps photos of insects in flight.

	Dec. 18, 2010 Coast Guard Report Examines Oil in Sea Floor Near Blown-Out BP Well A federal report released Friday detailed the levels of oil that remain lodged in sea floor sediment around the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Polar Bears Have a Chance -- If Drastic Steps are Taken A study by a team of high-profile agencies says that polar bears have a chance -- if we sharply cut our greenhouse gas emissions.

	Dec. 15, 2010 BP Faces Lawsuit to Recover Billions in Damages From Gulf Spill The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against BP and eight other companies involved in the Gulf oil spill disaster. Ray Suarez has more.

	Dec. 15, 2010 DOJ Sues BP, Transocean and Others Over Gulf Spill Attorney General Eric Holder and EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced a major lawsuit against BP, Transocean and other companies the Department of Justice says are responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April of this year.

	Dec. 14, 2010 Just Ask: How Does Sunscreen Work? As a cold front settles across the Eastern seaboard, we turn wistfully to thoughts of the sun for this week's Just Ask! science post.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Is the Web Becoming Less Secure? In the wake of the Gawker Media hacking over the weekend, Jeffrey Brown gets a wider perspective about the vulnerability of online information and the danger of further cyberattacks from James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Larry Clinton of the Internet Security Alliance.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Gawker Hacking Exposes Some Web Users' Bad Password Habits Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, was hacked over the weekend and information for about 1.3 million users was made public. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan about the cyber attack and what it means for personal security online.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Avoiding Eruptions - While Covering Them It took a long time and a lot of persistence to get to the summit of the most active volcano in Indonesia. The trip down came quicker - and went faster than I would have liked. Clearly, I lived to tell the tale - and the biggest personal risk to my well-being came from an eruption of ire among my compadres.

	Dec. 13, 2010 What We're Reading: Saturn's Rings, Brown Bat Disease and Fossil Looting Nature News reports on the mineral erionite, which has been linked to startling rates of the rare lung condition, mesothelioma, in some Turkish villages...

	Dec. 12, 2010 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user's names, email addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone to see.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Cancun Climate Talks: Signs of Progress or More Stumbling Blocks? As the U.N. Climate Negotiations wind up in Cancun, Mexico, we asked a variety of experts and climate watchers what they make of the summit so far, and what its outcome could mean for the future of international climate policy.

	Dec. 9, 2010 David Pogue: Cycle of New Consumer Technology Is 'Off the Tracks' New York Times technology columnist David Pogue talks to Jeffrey Brown about this holiday season's most sought-after gadgets and how consumers can get the most out of their purchasing power.

	Dec. 9, 2010 David Pogue: We're Still in 'Neanderthal' Era of E-Books New York Times technology columnist David Pogue spoke with Jeffrey Brown recently about the state of e-book evolution and the latest trends in digital cameras and tablets.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Cancun Climate Talks Enter Final Days, Report Shows Rapidly Melting Glaciers As global temperatures rise, glaciers are rapidly losing mass, especially in low-lying, arid regions, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Program this week.

	Dec. 8, 2010 Who Are the 'Anonymous' Hackers Supporting WikiLeaks? Brendan Greeley of the Economist has been communicating with the hackers who have targeted some major companies that have been challenging WikiLeaks in recent days.

	Dec. 8, 2010 WikiLeaks Finds Itself Target of, Inspiration for Cyber Attacks WikiLeaks has become the target of hackers who oppose its latest release of secret government documents, but some supporters are waging cyber attacks against individuals and companies -- including MasterCard, PayPal and a Swiss bank -- that have severed ties with the controversial site. Spencer Michels has more.

	Dec. 8, 2010 News Wrap: House Democrats Push $1.2 Trillion Government-Funding Plan In other news Wednesday, House Democrats moved to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year to the tune of $1.2 trillion. The measure would freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments.

	Dec. 8, 2010 Private Company SpaceX's Dragon Space Capsule Launched SpaceX, the first company to receive an FAA license for orbit and reentry, successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday.

	Dec. 8, 2010 WikiLeaks' Supporters Strike Sites WikiLeaks' supporters are striking back at those hampering the controversial site.

	Dec. 7, 2010 Just Ask: What Would a Supersized Atom Look Like? If you expanded an atom to the size of a baseball, what would it look like? With quantum laws in play, the answer isn't as easy -- or intuitive -- as you'd think.

	Dec. 6, 2010 Join 'Education for Innovation' Online Town Hall on Tuesday Morning The NewsHour is taking part in a special town hall meeting Tuesday on education and innovation. Gwen Ifill and Hari Sreenivasan will moderate the event, which will include an interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan. You can watch it live on The Rundown starting at 8:45 a.m. ET.

	Dec. 6, 2010 What We're Reading: Arsenic, Lightfoils and Skull-implanted Cameras The Guardian has a nice writeup from an astrobiologist on the speculation, media frenzy and false stories that rolled out along with last week's discovery that scientists had found bacteria that can feed off arsenic at Mono Lake...

	Dec. 2, 2010 Science, Mysticism Meld in Predicting Mount Merapi's Deadly Eruptions Since October, more than 300 people have been killed by volatile volcano Mount Merapi's eruptions. Miles O'Brien reports from the village of Yogyakarta on the science and superstition surrounding the most-active volcano in Indonesia.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Arsenic and Old Space Thinking: NASA Discovery Spurs New Ideas on Life A newly discovered microbe that can survive on arsenic could change the way scientists think about life on earth and search for life on other planets, NASA announced Thursday.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Miles O'Brien: Exploring the Eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi On Thursday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Indonesia on the science and the superstition surrounding the recent eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano. Hari Sreenivasan caught up with O'Brien in Java for a debrief on his reporting and the "mysticism of the mountain."

	Dec. 2, 2010 China Internet 'Hijacking': Your Questions Answered An 18-minute diversion of Internet traffic through China in April has raised security concerns around the world -- especially for governments and people in critical infrastructure. Two experts answered your questions on the Internet security breach.

	Dec. 1, 2010 At CERN, Art Collides with Science Inspired by the world's largest particle detector, a young artist found a way to paint a mural of part of Geneva's famous CERN experiment - right on the building itself.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Could WikiLeaks Be Stopped? Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman thinks it's time for WikiLeaks to go dark. Good luck with that, says Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2010 Just Ask: What Makes Volcanoes Erupt? It's time for our weekly Just Ask! feature, where experts tackle your questions on science and technology.

	Nov. 29, 2010 In Colorado, Ice Age 'Fossils Were Pouring Out of the Ground' In Colorado, scientists made a very big and plentiful find of bones dating back to the Ice Age. Tom Bearden reports on what kind of fossils were unearthed and what the new findings can tell us.

	Nov. 29, 2010 As Wind Power Expands, So Do Threats to Bat Population Ed Jahn of Oregon Public Broadcasting looks at the deadly effect wind power turbines can have on migratory bats in the Pacific Northwest.

	Nov. 29, 2010 Warming Lakes, Restoring Youth and ... Owl Puke Scientists have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, according to a study published online in the journal Nature and reported by the Wall Street Journal...

	Nov. 29, 2010 Addressing Ocean Acidification on Both Coasts An Environmental Protection Agency memo on ocean acidification played a role in the settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the EPA's failure to address the issue under the Clean Water Act.

	Nov. 26, 2010 China's Internet 'Hijacking' Creates Worries for Security Experts An 18-minute diversion of Internet traffic through China has raised security concerns around the world -- especially for governments and people in critical infrastructure -- and raises new concerns for online shoppers just ahead of Cyber Monday.

	Nov. 26, 2010 China's Internet 'Hijacking': Experts Take Your Questions A congressionally chartered panel concluded last week that China's state-based telecommunications company was behind a mass diversion "of massive volumes of Internet traffic." Two experts will answer your questions on the breach.

	Nov. 26, 2010 Not Your Grandfather's Clock: Testing Einstein, Bending Time The purpose of the "quantum logic" clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is not to tell time, but to measure time -- with spectacular precision.

	Nov. 25, 2010 Study Suggests Simple Fix to Help Women Succeed in Science Students attend a 'Science Careers in Search of Women' event at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Space Shuttle Program Winds Down as Era of Privatized Spacecraft Dawns As NASA's space shuttle program comes to an end after decades of service, private companies are looking to fill the void. Judy Woodruff looks at the future of space exploration with science correspondent Miles O'Brien.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Universe is Expanding, But Not All of It Regarding the expanding universe which recent observations shows is accelerating: I understand that not everything is expanding, just the space between galaxies.

	Nov. 22, 2010 What We're Reading: Jellyfish Stars, Giant Hailstorms, Morphing Tumor Cells Brain Tumors Grow Their Own Blood SupplyDrugs designed to choke off blood to brain tumors often fail, and two new studies published online in the journal Nature help explain why.

	Nov. 21, 2010 Radiolab Hosts 'Dress Up' As Science Journalists Radiolab is hard to define. The hour-long radio program, co-hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and produced by WNYC in New York, draws on philosophy, literature, popular culture, and even religion to explain scientific phenomena.

	Nov. 19, 2010 Ancient Volcano Holds Clues to Earth's Deeper Mysteries In a landscape of rolling hills and flat cow fields, Mole Hill Mountain is a peculiar sight.

	Nov. 18, 2010 What We're Reading: Venomous Snakes, Urban Gardens and Antimatter Scientific American reports on an exoplanet more massive than Jupiter that came from another galaxy and then got consumed by ours. Take a look at this story and some of the other top science reporting from around the Web.

	Nov. 18, 2010 'Night at the Museum'? Chicago Resident Settles in for a Month Some nights, Kate McGroarty slept in a German submarine. Other nights, she slept in a giant hamster wheel. Tthe 24-year-old Chicago resident beat more than 1,000 applicants to win the Month at the Museum contest at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in Danger, International Commission On the Hot Seat The Atlantic bluefin tuna has been devastated to near extinction by overfishing, hunting and sagging confidence in the international agency tasked with protecting it.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Introducing an All New Science Page It's official: our revamped Science page has launched.

	Nov. 16, 2010 Robot Butlers and Jet Packs: How Close Are We Really? NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien writes about how the technological promises of the space race in the 1960s -- flying cars and the like -- haven't exactly played out as anticipated, but there's still a sense of wonder about recent scientific accomplishments.

	Nov. 15, 2010 CNET Editor Explains Highlights of Facebook's Titan Messaging Service CNET Editor at Large Rafe Needleman speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about Facebook's new integrated messaging system, known as Titan.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Scientist Studies Exploding Star's Insides, Explains Supernova Some 168,000 years ago, a massive star collapsed and then spectacularly exploded, releasing 100 times the amount of energy than the sun will release over its lifetime in just one second. The light took so long to reach us that astronomers first saw the explosion in 1987. Astrophysicist Robert Kirshner explains this supernova.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Harvard Astrophysicist Answers: What Is a Supernova? Robert Kirshner, an astrophysicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, answers the question, "What is a supernova?" "A supernova explosion is something where you see a star that you hadn't seen before suddenly turn billions of times brighter than it was," Kirshner said.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Photomicrographs Capture Beauty, Complexity of Life Beneath the Lens Want to see a mosquito heart? A starfish embryo? The crystals in crystallized soy sauce? Then behold the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, a contest for microscopic images.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Just 30 Years Old, Youngest Nearby Black Hole Discovered A team of Harvard astrophysicists has discovered what they believe is an infant black hole, the youngest ever found in our cosmic backyard.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Nikon Small World Photography Competition Winners The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. The subject matter is tiny, but the winning images pack a punch.

	Nov. 15, 2010 What We're Reading: Deaf Dolphins, Shuttle Trouble, Cat Fluid Mechanics "In a world where hearing is as valuable as sight," deafness may be a major factor in what's stranding dolphins on seashores, The Washington Post reports. Take a look at this story and some of the other top science reporting from around the Web.

	Nov. 12, 2010 Diplomacy and 21st Century Statecraft While the title of Senior Adviser for Innovation at the State Department may sound vague, the problems Alec Ross and his colleagues tackle are very real; from poverty to pandemics, from disaster to diplomacy.

	Nov. 8, 2010 Who (Still) Doesn't Have Broadband? High-speed Internet went mainstream in the last decade -- home access grew from 9 percent of American households in 2001 to 64 percent in 2009 -- but the broadband gap still cuts strongly along racial and economic lines, according to a new report.

	Nov. 5, 2010 Fuel Leak Delays Final Discovery Shuttle Launch, Again The final launch of space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed for the fourth time in as many days Friday, raising questions among some space watchers on when old becomes too old.

	Nov. 5, 2010 Track Hurricane Tomas Using Google Earth and tropical storm-tracking data from NASA, we created an interactive map of Hurricane Tomas.

	Nov. 4, 2010 NASA Snaps Photos of Comet Hartley 2 A NASA fly-by mission snapped and then beamed back pictures of a small peanut shaped-comet Thursday, marking only the fifth time that a comet's core has been viewed so close.



	OCTOBER Oct. 29, 2010 Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? How close are we to being replaced by robots? NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on efforts to engineer robots that are eerily similar to humans and animals.

	Oct. 29, 2010 'BigDog' and the Rise of the Robots On Friday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on our fascination with robots and the efforts underway to make them as human as possible.

	Oct. 29, 2010 What Zombies Can Teach Us About Braaain Science Dr. Steven Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a lecturer at the Harvard School of Education, uses the undead to teach the living about the brain.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Biodiversity Losses are Alarming, but Reversible A decade-long effort involving nearly 200 scientists and a colossal database has reached a simple conclusion: conservation works. But there's not enough of it.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Chilean Miners' Rescue Presented Massive Engineering, Drilling Hurdle Three separate drilling plans were created to save the 33 Chilean miners trapped in the San Jose mine. Margaret Warner talks to one Americans who helped orchestrate the rescue.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Nova Documentary Examines Science Behind Chilean Miners' Rescue In a documentary airing on most PBS stations, "Nova" captured the gripping story of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for more than two months and explores the science used to rescue them.

	Oct. 23, 2010 Festival Showcases Future Faces of Science, Engineering Thousands of students ventured to Washington D.C. for the 2010 Science and Engineering Festival. Booths lined the National Mall as the event sought to pique the interest of the nation's youth in science and math through an array of interactive exhibits.

	Oct. 21, 2010 Moon Blast Reveals Lunar Surface Rich With Compounds There is water on the moon ... along with a long list of other compounds, including, mercury, gold and silver. That's according to a more detailed analysis of the cold lunar soil near the moon's South Pole, released in the journal Science Thursday.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Study: Post-Menopausal Hormone Therapy Increases Cancer Risk A new study found that post-menopausal women who use hormone-replacement therapy are at a greater risk of getting aggressive cancers than those who don't. Gwen Ifill gets perspectives on the findings from the lead author of the study, Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, and Dr. Julie Gralow of The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

	Oct. 18, 2010 Students Explain Science Experiments to President Obama They're too young to vote, but they're already designing cancer-fighting therapies, solar-powered cars and robots to combat distracted driving. President Obama honored these and other student projects at the first-ever White House Science Fair. Watch the video.

	Oct. 11, 2010 Rescue of Chilean Miners Nears, but Risks Remain As rescuers prepare to evacuate the trapped Chilean miners, risks remain to the safe return of the all the men. Ray Suarez talks to Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News, who is on the scene in Chile.

	Oct. 11, 2010 Steel Tubing to Help Pull Chilean Miners to Surface Freedom for 33 trapped Chilean miners is growing closer as rescuers finish installing steel tubing that will help bring the miners to the surface. Garent Vincent of Independent Television News reports.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Stuxnet Has Infected My Reading Ever since I began researching material for a Stuxnet virus segment last week on the Newshour broadcast, I've been fascinated with this little worm, and I can't seem to flip by an article about it without stopping to take a look.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Virus-Fungus Combo May Contribute to Honeybee Die-Off Nearly four years after a mysterious die-off began decimating honeybee populations across the United States, researchers believe they may have a lead on a culprit -- or rather, two culprits.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Report: Government Underestimated, Underreported Oil Spill Size According to the National Oil Spill Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public the worst-case estimates of the leak in late April or early May.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Carbon-Bonding Tool Nabs Nobel Chemistry Prize Carbon took center stage again Wednesday as three pioneering chemists won the Nobel for their development of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, a form of carbon-carbon bonding.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Graphene: Nobel Winners' Thin, Mighty Material Holds Much Promise Two Russian-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on graphene, a form of carbon just one atom thick, but 100 times stronger than steel. The NewsHour's new science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, has the details.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Google, Apple Among Those Vying for Living Room Media Dominance As people spend more and more time consuming digital media, wryly noted here, Google is hoping its new service will become the breakout tool to fully integrate how the most popular forms are consumed in the home: Web, television, social media, music and more.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Developers of Ultra-Thin, Super-Strong Carbon Win Physics Nobel Two Russian scientists will share $1.5 million and the Nobel Prize in physics for their "groundbreaking experiments" on the world's thinnest and strongest material, graphene.

	Oct. 4, 2010 Nobel Prize Goes to Scientist Who Developed IVF Procedure In the first of this week's Nobel Prize announcements, British scientist Robert Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel for Medicine and Physiology Monday for his work developing the in-vitro fertilization method that led to the birth of the world's first "test-tube baby."

	Oct. 1, 2010 Hunting an 'Industrial-Strength' Computer Virus Around the Globe Hari Sreenivasan has the latest on a powerful computer virus that could be targeting nuclear facilities in Iran.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 29, 2010 New Letters Illuminate Personalities, Story Behind DNA Structure Discovery Nine boxes of previously unknown letters, postcards and other correspondence from Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, have been unearthed in the files of his longtime colleague, according to an article published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

	Sept. 27, 2010 China's Rare Earth Deposits Add Trade Tensions to Dispute With Japan Amid the recent rise in tensions between China and Japan over Japan's arrest of a Chinese trawler captain, Beijing has unleashed a reported trading halt on an unusual commodity: rare earth.

	Sept. 27, 2010 Ban Expires on West Bank Construction; U.S. Seeks to Expand Internet Wiretaps With the 10-month ban on building in West Bank settlements expired as of Sunday night, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to talk to Arab governments next week in Cairo before deciding whether to continue negotiations with Israel.

	Sept. 24, 2010 Facebook's Zuckerberg Lands in the Spotlight Amid Movie Flak, School Donation Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to donate $100 million to the Newark, N.J., school system as a new movie comes out documenting the rise of the social networking site. Ray Suarez has more.

	Sept. 23, 2010 For Scientists, Collaborative Efforts Could Speed Medical Advances Special correspondent Dave Iverson reports on a new push to get scientists to work together to find medical cures sooner.

	Sept. 23, 2010 New Gulf Oil Spill Flow Rate Estimate Released In the early days of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, estimates varied wildly on the amount of oil gushing from the blown-out well. But on Thursday in the journal Science, Timothy Crone, a marine geophysicist from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, released another estimate.

	Sept. 17, 2010 Fidel Castro's Favorite Dolphin Show Jeffrey Goldberg's recent interview with Fidel Castro may have raised questions about Castro's commitment to the Cuban model of socialism, but the Cuban leader was absolutely clear on one thing: he enjoys a good dolphin show.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Weighing the (Very Light) Nuts and Bolts of the X Prize's Edison2 For even the biggest projects, the devil is always in the details. In late August, the NewsHour profiled a small group of race car enthusiasts in Lynchburg, Va., who have made what they say is a revolutionary new automobile.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Bacteria Gobbling Natural Gas in the Gulf While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Edison 2 Among Ultra-Light Cars to Reap Rewards of X Prize Edison2's Very Light Car won the $5 million top prize of the X Prize competition to build an uber-efficient car. Judy Woodruff recently traveled to Lynchburg, Va., to get a closer look at the technology behind the Edison2.

	Sept. 15, 2010 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Can We Both Feed the World in a Sustainable Way and Feed it Quality Food? Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk." In this post, Paul considers the sustainability of food production for an ever-increasing world population, and whether that food will be natural or synthetic.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Inspiration, Funding Cited as Top Needs for Math and Science Education At a Brookings Institution event, scientists and educators outlined the biggest problems facing science and technology education in the U.S., namely the need for inspiration, leadership and funding.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Scientists Use Scans to Better Understand Brain Maturity As children mature, their brains bloom madly with activity -- growing, pruning and rewiring. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine have created a "virtual machine" to study such brain development and to track young brains as they develop.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Pillbox Project Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly identify what drug might have been ingested. The Pillbox project has already begun such a database.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Carl Malamud: Internet Revolution Has Yet to Modernize Legal Industry Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems. At the Gov2.0 Summit this week, he said that the legal industry is the last business that the Internet has left to revolutionize.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. Bryan Sivak, D.C.'s chief technology officer, explains a new project called CivicCommons.com.

	Sept. 7, 2010 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, and Aneesh Chopra, the U.S. government's chief technology officer, discuss how the government can better serve citizens through data sharing.

	Sept. 7, 2010 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners.

	Sept. 6, 2010 Africa Hopes to Close Broadband Gap According to recent studies by the International Telecommunications Union, only 10.9 percent of Africa's population uses the Internet. By contrast, the Internet is used by 77.4 percent of North Americans.

	Sept. 2, 2010 BP Removes Cap From Well, Moves Toward Final Well Kill BP engineers on Thursday removed the cap that first stopped the blown-out Macondo oil well from spewing oil and gas back in mid-July.



	AUGUST Aug. 30, 2010 News Wrap: Obama Calls for Small Business Assistance In other news Monday, President Obama called for new action to help the sluggish economy and urged new assistance for small businesses. In Pakistan, thousands of refugees began to head home as flood waters receded in some areas.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Will New Levees Protect New Orleans From the Next Hurricane? The Army Corps of Engineers has built new flood walls and levees around New Orleans. But some critics say that it might not be enough to protect the city from the next hurricane.

	Aug. 25, 2010 'Rational Optimist' Matt Ridley Answers Your Questions on Economy, Science Last week, Paul Solman talked to "rational optimist" Matt Ridley about why he believes that life on earth for humans is getting better and better.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Judge's Stem Cell Research Stoppage Debated A federal judge issued a ruling to halt human embryonic stem cell research and "preserve the status quo" from before President Obama expanded research guidelines. Judy Woodruff gets perspectives from Dr. Evan Snyder of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and David Prentice of the Family Research Council.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Study: Oil-Eating Microbes Plentiful in Gulf Oil Spill Oil-eating bacteria proliferated below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, helping to break down and clean up an underwater oil plume that stretched miles from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, according to a study released Tuesday by the journal Science.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Portraits of Iraqis and Their Dreams Iraqis' feelings about their country's future are best reflected in what they say about their own personal dreams. The younger ones appear less scarred -- their parents' and grandparents' generations seem far more so. Margaret Warner introduces some of the people she's met in her travels.

	Aug. 23, 2010 Judge Temporarily Blocks Federally Funded Embroynic Stem Cell Research A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's guidelines expanding embryonic stem cell research.

	Aug. 23, 2010 More Aid Heading to Pakistan; FDA Chief Calls for Preventative Powers The United Nations said Monday that it has now raised about 70 percent of the $460 million it needs to provide emergency relief to people affected by the floods in Pakistan.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Oil Plume Study Raises New Questions on Spill Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released the first conclusive evidence of an underwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffrey Brown talks to one of the study's authors, Chris Reddy, and David Farenthold of The Washington Post.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Scientists Map Gulf Oil Plume Months after the Deepwater Horizon oil leak began, a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide and 650-foot-high plume of microscopic oil compounds floated 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the well, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

	Aug. 18, 2010 Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Helper? A recent NewsHour report on cybersecurity included a security expert explaining how he could read radio frequency identification tags at "long distances," but the editor of a magazine that reports on the RFID industry objected to our story. We delve into the debate with comments from both sides.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Author Disconnects From Communication Devices to Reconnect With Life In this day and age, much communication is done by e-mail, text messages, Twitter and other forms of digital communication. William Powers, author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," explains how disconnecting from our screens may help us reconnect with our lives.

	Aug. 16, 2010 What's Behind This Summer's Severe Weather Around the World? It's been a summer of extreme weather: monsoon flooding is wreaking havoc in Pakistan and a persistent heat wave is fueling wildfires and creating health hazards in Russia.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Extended Interview: William Powers Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past.

	Aug. 12, 2010 Online Crime a Cat-and-Mouse Game for Hackers, Security Companies Spencer Michels wraps up his cybersecurity series with a look at online crimes and the technology being used to stop them.

	Aug. 12, 2010 Online Fraudsters Increasingly Skilled at Hacking Bank Accounts All this week, we've been looking at the complexities of cybersecurity, including the potential for attacks on government computers and the views of former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on the scope of the "cyber conflict.

	Aug. 11, 2010 Hayden: Hackers Force Internet Users to Learn Self-Defense Correspondent Spencer Michels continues his series on cybersecurity with a conversation with former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden who says the openness of the Internet's design puts hackers at an advantage over people who want to defend their data.

	Aug. 11, 2010 What Happens to Debris From Gulf Oil Cleanup? Piles of plastic bags containing tar balls from Gulf Coast shorelines are packed up each day and millions of gallons oily water have been skimmed. But where is the debris from the Gulf oil disaster being taken? Tom Bearden reports.

	Aug. 11, 2010 Pew Report: U.S. Broadband Adoption Slows, but Blacks Gain Ground The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its Home Broadband 2010 Report Wednesday, revealing a dramatic slowing of broadband adoption by Americans this year, but showing notable growth in use by blacks.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Spinal Fluid Test a New Tool for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Doctors may be able to reliably predict a person's chance of developing Alzheimer's disease from a simple analysis of their cerebral spinal fluid, according to a study released Monday.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Governments Battle to Stay Ahead of Threats on Internet, 'The Great Leveler' In the first in a series of reports about cybersecurity, correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Las Vegas on governmental and citizen-led efforts to stop online crime that could threaten critical infrastructure.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Black Hat and Defcon Founder Jeff Moss: What Is the 'Hacker Mindset?' More than 15,000 computer nerds - hackers, government officials, security company officials and who knows who else - spent a few days in Las Vegas recently for an unusual set of conventions.

	Aug. 9, 2010 Internet Policy Experts React to Google/Verizon Regulation Proposal Google and Verizon released a joint set of principles for Internet regulation Monday that would enshrine some aspects of net neutrality principles in law, but would largely exempt the wireless Internet from regulation.

	Aug. 9, 2010 Google and Verizon: Yes to Net Neutrality, But... The CEOs of Google and Verizon announced a joint set of net neutrality principles Monday that would enshrine in federal law the FCC's ability to regulate the Internet and enforce open access.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Would a Google-Verizon Deal Kill Net Neutrality? A report this morning says Google may be close to a deal with Verizon that would give the search giant preferred access on the service provider's networks. That news has open-Internet advocates worried and Web-watchers scratching their heads.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Report Says Oil Mostly Gone, But Some Along Gulf Remain Skeptical BP reports the static kill on the Gulf oil well is a success so far, but some Gulf Coast residents are questioning a new government report that states around three-quarters of the spilled oil is already gone. Gwen Ifill reports on the latest developments in the Gulf.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Katrina 5 Years Later: The Fall and Rise of New Orleans' Levees Five years after sections of New Orleans' levees fell or were overtopped with water pushed inland by Hurricane Katrina, the NewsHour is looking back at what we've learned about their failure, what's been done to fix them and how vulnerable New Orleans remains to another storm.

	Aug. 2, 2010 As BP Looks to Start Static Kill, a Firsthand Look at Discoverer Enterprise Ship In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, crews are confident that they are close to finally killing the oil well that's been gushing for months. Tom Bearden reports from a ship that has played a key role in the effort to contain the oil.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Privacy, Security Concerns Raised for BlackBerry, Phone, Web Users It's been a busy few days for online privacy and personal tech. Here's a breakdown of some of the latest major developments.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Going Aboard the Drillship Discoverer Enterprise in the Gulf For months, the eyes of the world were focused on the images of the Gulg oil leak coming from the drillship Discoverer Enterprise. On Saturday, the NewsHour was part of the first media tour of the ship.



	JULY July 29, 2010 Timeline: The Oil Spill at 100 Days As the Deepwater Horizon oil leak surpasses the 100-day mark, here is a timeline of some key events from the past few months with links to NewsHour coverage.

	July 28, 2010 One Man Takes on -- And Funds -- Mission to Clean Up Gulf A man who made his money in the construction crane business is now leading and funding a small operation to clean up the Gulf Coast and assist with other disasters around the world. Spencer Michel reports from Buras, Louisiana.

	July 27, 2010 A Closer Look at WikiLeaks' Past, Future While some cheer the mission of the WikiLeaks website and the secret material it has disclosed, the site continues to rankle U.S. government officials who say it poses threats to national security, lives and diplomatic matters.

	July 23, 2010 Scientist Studies Oil Dispersant's Effects, Methane in the Gulf David Valentine, a geochemist at the University of California-Santa Barbara, discusses how dispersant might interact with bacteria that usually break down oil there. Valentine also believes scientists could study dissolved methane to measure how much oil has leaked.

	July 22, 2010 News Wrap: Rangel Faces Ethics Charges In other news Thursday, Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York will face multiple ethics charges before a House ethics panel, stemming from financial, tax and real estate dealings.

	July 21, 2010 News Wrap: Bernanke Promises to Bolster Recovery If Needed In other news Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke voiced concern about slow economic growth, saying the Fed would take action if needed to help the U.S. economic recovery along.

	July 21, 2010 BP Considers 'Static Kill', Eyes Potential Storm Officials could move forward by the weekend with an operation to begin permanently sealing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters Wednesday.

	July 20, 2010 Study Shows Gel Holds Promise for Reducing HIV Risk In a big step forward for the field of HIV prevention, a new study shows for the first time a microbicide gel provided significant protection for women from HIV infection.

	July 16, 2010 Concerned About iPhone 4 'Death Grip?' Jobs: Have a Free Bumper Responding to weeks of complaints about reception issues with Apple's popular iPhone 4, CEO Steve Jobs mounted a defense at a Friday news conference, announcing that customers will be able to get a free rubber case to alleviate the problem or return the phone. We talk to a CNET editor for more.

	July 16, 2010 Gwen's Take: Entering the 'Twitterverse' You see, that headline is what I've always hated about Twitter.

	July 15, 2010 Celebrating the Marriage of Art and Technology at the Creators Project A partnership between Vice Magazine and Intel, the Creators Project was launched on June 26th in New York, bringing established and emerging artists from around the world together to explore the use of technology in art.

	July 15, 2010 Iranian Nuclear Scientist Returns Home, but Questions Remain Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who claims he was abducted by the CIA a year ago, abruptly returned to his home in Iran on Thursday. U.S. officials have denied his claims. And plenty of questions remain about the whole story behind his case.

	July 14, 2010 Cousteau Returns to Gulf to Survey Oil Damage Oceanographer and documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau recently checked in with the Rundown to update us on his team's explorations since returning to the Gulf Coast.

	July 12, 2010 Monday: BP Installing New Cap on Well; Twin Bombings Kill 64 in Uganda BP continues to install a tighter cap over its leaking oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, saying it is ahead of its schedule to get the new, better cap in place.

	July 9, 2010 Social Media in 2020 and Beyond If you're one of those people who don't get all the fuss over Twitter and YouTube, hoping they'll simply go away, you may not want to read the results of a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, in partnership with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center.

	July 8, 2010 Solar Power Takes to the Skies With 26-Hour Flight An experimental plane powered only by solar energy completed 26 hours of non-stop flying over Switzerland Thursday.

	July 8, 2010 Scientists Turn to Microscopic Bacteria for Help With Spreading Oil As the large amounts of oil continue to foul the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have begun using microbes to help clean affected marshlands. Tom Bearden reports.

	July 8, 2010 The Oil Spill Diet Oil-consuming bacteria naturally help break down the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists are studying how to encourage the microbes to work faster. Explore how it would work in this graphic.

	July 7, 2010 Heat Wave Causes Kinks in Rail Tracks The Massacusetts Bay Transportation Authority has had to repair so-called "heat kinks" during recent high temperatures.

	July 7, 2010 Is a Penalty Kick's Direction Predictable? World Cup Goalies Take Note What happens in that split second between when the penalty kick taker approaches the ball, and when the ball hits the back of the net? Researchers have found a few signals that can help a goalkeeper become smarter at figuring out which direction to lunge when a kick comes flying their way.

	July 6, 2010 Oil Spill Update: Skimming Efforts Falling Short Skimming efforts haven't proven nearly as effective at removing oil from the Gulf of Mexico as BP told federal regulators just before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, the Washington Post reports.

	July 5, 2010 Bridging the Technical Divide in Johannesburg As the World Cup enters the semi-finals in South Africa, the country's poorer sections are left in the shadows of the soccer stadiums. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how one man has been attempting to bridge the digital divide in one of Johannesburg's poorest neighborhoods.

	July 5, 2010 Finland Makes Internet a 'Basic Right' When one thinks of basic rights, things like voting, clean water or education might come to mind. Now, add Internet access to that list. Finland this month became the first country in the world to make high-speed Internet service a basic right of its citizens.



	JUNE June 30, 2010 Scientists Probe the Ocean Depths to Gauge Gulf Oil Spill Damage Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Florida on scientists who are going deep underwater with sensor technology to explore the damage caused by BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 29, 2010 Google Stops Redirect for Chinese Users In an effort to keep its license to operate in China, Google will stop automatically rerouting mainland China users to an uncensored version of its search engine, the company announced late Monday.

	June 29, 2010 Meeting the Promise of 'PlayPumps' for Clean Water Five years ago, Frontline/World correspondent Amy Costello reported on a new kind of water pump being developed in southern Africa. The original report attracted international investors and the so-called "PlayPumps" started rolling out. But, when Costello returned for a follow-up report, she found a less promising scene.

	June 24, 2010 A Decade on, Human Genome Research Yet to Directly Affect Many Patients Ten years after the cracking of the human genetic code, Jeffrey Brown talks to a scientist about advancements and setbacks in using the research to pinpoint the causes of illnesses and craft individualized therapies.

	June 23, 2010 Allen: Underwater Robot Collision Halts Oil Capture BP was forced to remove the containment cap that had been capturing some of the oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf, Coast Guard Adm.

	June 22, 2010 With Location-Tracking Technology, Cell Users Paying Price of Privacy Correspondent Spencer Michels reports how cell phones with GPS technology that track and share user location are raising concerns about privacy as they revolutionize the way people communicate.

	June 18, 2010 Oil Leak Renews Debate Over Green Energy's Future In his address to the nation Tuesday night, President Obama urged Americans that "the time to embrace a clean energy future is now." Jeffrey Brown sits down with guests Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress and Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss what can and should be done.

	June 18, 2010 Uncertainty Abounds as the Gulf Leak Meter Ticks Higher Last week, we noted that a federal panel raised the estimate of how much oil has been leaking out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. But that report left one thing unclear: Did the flow rate increase significantly after June 3?

	June 17, 2010 BP Begins 'Flaring' Oil in the Gulf BP has started flaring, or burning, some of the oil it siphons out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the company reported this week.

	June 17, 2010 Former Factory Town in Iowa Eyes Green Future, Improved Livability As part of our Blueprint America series of reports on American infrastructure needs, special correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the city of Dubuque, Iowa, and the steps they've taken toward a green future.

	June 17, 2010 Liveblogging the Tony Hayward Hearing The Rundown is covering Thursday's congressional subcommittee hearing on the oil leak, featuring testimony by BP CEO Tony Hayward.

	June 16, 2010 Baja Wind Energy Project Could Help Fill California's Sails As President Barack Obama stresses the need for independence from fossil fuels, filmmaker Emma Cott examines one alternative energy project that is looking to harness wind power from Mexico to help meet California's energy demands.

	June 16, 2010 Amid Calls for New Fuel Sources, Wind Energy Proves to Be Complex Endeavor One of the things President Obama called in his address to the nation on the Gulf oil crisis was an end to the country's addiction to fossil fuels. Independent filmmaker Emma Cott has filed a report on the challenges of harnessing wind power from Mexico to meet the demand for energy in California.

	June 15, 2010 Shields and Brooks: Will Obama's Oil Disaster Speech Change Any Minds? After President Obama's Oval Office address on the ongoing Gulf disaster, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks joined Judy Woodruff to review the substance of the primetime speech.

	June 15, 2010 Full Video: President Obama's Oval Office Address on Gulf Oil Disaster Watch all of President Obama's Oval Office address on the federal response to the ongoing Gulf Coast oil leak disaster. Also, make sure to check out analysis and opinion from a variety of experts in Obama's Annotated Oval Office Address.

	June 15, 2010 Gulf States Face Long Road to Environmental, Economic Recovery As criticism of BP and the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf spill continues, Gwen Ifill talks to two local officials about the president's visit and what it will take for the region to bounce back from the environmental and economic devastation.

	June 15, 2010 Scientists Again Raise Government Estimate of Oil Leak Rate Scientists on a government panel significantly increased their estimate Tuesday of how much oil is gushing out of BP's blown-out well each day.

	June 14, 2010 Rare Earth Minerals' Scarcity Worrisome for Growing Tech Sector Correspondent Kira Kay reports on a Canadian hunt for "rare earth" minerals, elements mined almost exclusively in China, that are key to emerging green technologies, cell phones, engines and other high-tech devices despite their short supply.

	June 14, 2010 Pentagon: Afghanistan Could Hold $1 Trillion in Valuable Minerals A U.S. geologic survey has uncovered at least $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. Margaret Warner talks to a reporter on what the valuable natural resources could mean for the Afghan economy and the ongoing war with the Taliban.

	June 14, 2010 BP Unveils New Strategy to Capture More of Gulf Oil Spill BP has unveiled a new plan to capture more oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico as President Obama starts a two-day visit to the region. Ray Suarez has the on the latest developments on the environmental disaster.

	June 14, 2010 NOAA Launches 'One Stop Shop' for Oil Spill Data The federal government Monday released what it called "a one-stop shop for detailed near-real-time information about the response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill" in an effort to get updates out the range of groups affected by the ongoing disaster.

	June 11, 2010 BP Oil Leak Rate Estimate Doubled New estimates suggest BP's ruptured well may have spewed twice as much oil into the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped than previously thought, raising new questions about cleanup and restoration efforts. Judy Woodruff has an update on the scope of the disaster.

	June 10, 2010 Government Announces New, Higher Oil Flow Estimates The flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could have been as low as 20,000 barrels per day and as high as 40,000 or even 50,000 barrels per day before June 3, according to new estimates announced Thursday by U.S.Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt.

	June 9, 2010 Containment Cap Collects Slightly More Oil; BP Looks to Boost Capacity BP's oil containment system captured about 15,000 barrels (630,000 gallons) of oil Tuesday, up slightly from the 14,800 barrels collected Monday, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news briefing Wednesday. We've again updated our oil ticker to reflect the change.

	June 8, 2010 Explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau Probes Depths of Oil Spill's Impact As the environmental impacts of the BP oil leak unfold in the Gulf of Mexico, Jeffrey Brown talks to ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau about conservation and his team's dives into the spill.

	June 8, 2010 NOAA Confirms Presence of Subsea Oil Plumes in Gulf The federal government confirmed Tuesday that sub-sea clouds of dispersed oil have been found at least 40 miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 8, 2010 Oil-Covered Birds a Vivid Symbol of the Crisis in the Gulf Images of oil-covered birds are among the most vivid symbols of the wildlife damage wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill.

	June 7, 2010 Seven Convicted in Deadly 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak in India A court in India has convicted seven former executives of a Union Carbide subsidiary of "causing death by negligence" for a gas leak at a company plant that killed an estimated 15,000 people in the 1980s.

	June 4, 2010 Drilling Moratorium Could Imperil Louisiana's Expansive Oil Industry In our continuing coverage of the Gulf oil leak, Spencer Michels reports on how the spill may impact Louisiana's lucrative drilling industry as lawmakers impose a moratorium on offshore drilling and vow to ramp up regulation on the industry.

	June 4, 2010 Success of BP's Oil Well Cap Remains Uncertain After BP installed a cap on the head of the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well, Ray Suarez talks to Greg McCormack of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas about whether this week's "cut and cap" attempt will stop the leak.

	June 3, 2010 Computer Model Shows Oil Likely to Spread to Atlantic The oil from the BP leak could reach far beyond the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new computer model released Thursday that shows currents could carry some of the slick up the Atlantic coast.

	June 3, 2010 Mars500 Project Will Test Prospects for Human Travel to the Red Planet On Thursday morning, six astronauts will be locked in a 550 cubic-meter windowless complex in Moscow.

	June 2, 2010 BP Setbacks Mount as Cut and Cap Attempt Stalls in Gulf BP's latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil leak stalled Wednesday when a saw became stuck in a pipe on the damaged well. Gwen Ifill talks Jane Lubchenco, the head of NOAA, about what the setbacks mean for stopping the flow.

	June 2, 2010 Relief Wells Will Work, Experts Say, but Will Take Time, Trial and Error Even as attention has focused this week on BP's latest attempt to temporarily contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, work continues on what the company and experts say will most likely be the permanent fix -- two relief wells that should be ready in August.

	June 1, 2010 Does the Internet Help or Hurt Democracy? Does the pervading presence of the Web make people better citizens or does it propagate misinformation and threaten democracy? Paul Solman has a look at the unfolding debate as staged by the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs.



	MAY May 31, 2010 BP Readies New Strategy for Stopping Oil Leak Following the failure of the 'top kill' procedure, BP prepared to attempt to slice off a piece of the leaking pipe to cap the blown-out oil well in the Gulf. Margaret Warner gives an update on the ongoing environmental crisis.

	May 28, 2010 Gov 2.0 Expo: Tim O'Reilly Talks Transparency, Facebook and Privacy Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media, but beyond that he is someone who is constantly thinking of the nexus between open and closed systems of information and how they interact. We spoke with him about the potential for life in the data cloud and his thoughts on the concerns over Facebook's privacy settings.

	May 27, 2010 Gov 2.0 Expo: Holovaty on Empowering Citizens With Neighborhood Data Everyblock.com founder Adrian Holovaty spoke with us at the Gov 2.0 Expo about how collecting and distributing streams of data about specific city blocks can empower citizens to make their neighborhoods better places to live and work.

	May 27, 2010 Publishers, Writers Assess the Digital Frontier of the Written Word From podcasts to digital tablets, technology is reshaping the way Americans read. As the 2010 Book Expo wraps up in New York, Jeffrey Brown takes a look at emerging technologies and the future of the book.

	May 27, 2010 Viewers Answer YouTube Call for Oil Spill Suggestions On Tuesday, we put out a YouTube call for viewers to submit suggestions for how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More than 7,000 people offered suggestions and more than 100,000 votes were cast. We've posted some suggestions and asked an expert for his take.

	May 27, 2010 Out on the Gulf, Oil You Can See, Smell, Taste in the Back of Your Mouth That giant oil slick bobbing atop of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico is just plain nasty. As Ed Overton put it, you can see it, smell it, and taste it in the back of your mouth.

	May 26, 2010 Gulf Coast Photographer Captures Oil Spill's Effect on Wildlife Since the oil leak in the Gulf erupted more than a month ago, Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert has as been documenting the people and places at the center of the disaster.

	May 26, 2010 Facebook Changes Privacy Policy After Pushback from Users Facebook changed its privacy controls after users protested that their information was being made public. Jeffrey Brown looks at the growing pressure to safeguard user information online.

	May 26, 2010 News Wrap: State Department Weighs in on Korean Naval Dispute In other news Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a global response to the sinking of a South Korean warship, blamed on North Korea, and the space shuttle Atlantis has returned to earth following its final space mission.

	May 26, 2010 Atlantis Caps Final Mission with Permanent Resting Place Still TBD The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year career in space.

	May 26, 2010 Facebook's New Privacy Approach Shifts Control Back to User Facebook unveiled new privacy controls Wednesday, after the social networking site came under heavy criticism in recent weeks for hard-to-use new settings and for making chunks of previously private information public.

	May 26, 2010 Facebook Set to Roll Out New Privacy Controls Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be rolling out simplified privacy controls Wednesday.

	May 25, 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak: A Month in Photos More than one month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and cleanup efforts continue on the ocean's surface and on land.

	May 24, 2010 NewsHour Plus \| This Week In Space: Atlantis, Armstrong, Space X Miles O'Brien joins us again on The Rundown to talk about the last mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the rarity of Neil Armstrong's recent public testimony on the direction of the space program's future, and the pressure on the rocket launch of Space X.

	May 20, 2010 Researchers Build First "Synthetic Cell" Researchers have created the first cell powered by a man-made genome, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.

	May 17, 2010 How Much Difference Do 1,000 Barrels a Day Make for Containment Efforts? With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage.

	May 14, 2010 News Wrap: Thai Troops Crack Down on Anti-Government Protests In other news Friday, violence escalated in the streets of Bangkok as Thai troops fired on anti-government protesters, killing at least eight people and hundreds of people protested in Afghanistan against a NATO strike they believe killed Afghan civilians.

	May 14, 2010 Report: Oil Spill Larger Than Thought; Pakistan Arrests N.Y. Bomb Suspect When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it was leaking oil at a rate of 1,000 barrels a day. That figure was later revised to 5,000 barrels per day. Multiple reports out Friday, however, show the spill may be much, much worse.

	May 12, 2010 Astronauts Criticize NASA Moon Program Cuts Before Congress Astronaut Neil Armstrong and made a rare public appearance to testify before Congress about the future space exploration. Kwame Holman reports on the divisions about the future of space exploration and plans to scrap NASA's Constellation program.

	May 12, 2010 World's 'Better City' Wonders on Display at Shanghai Expo As China kicks off its five-month World Expo festivities in Shanghai, Jeffrey Brown talks to Ray Suarez about what is on displayed in the international pavilions at the largest, most expensive World's Fair in history.

	May 12, 2010 Lieberman, Kerry Unveil Climate Bill Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Kerry unveiled a much-anticipated energy and climate bill Wednesday, aimed at reducing carbon emissions and encouraging the development of clean energy sources.

	May 12, 2010 Genetics and Athletics: Is It in You? Great athletes are often referred to as "naturals" in their respective sports, but how much of their talent can be traced back to DNA is still uncertain to scientists.

	May 11, 2010 Shanghai World Expo: Serious Business with a Side of Campy Fun World's fairs are fun. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure. Parades and international cuisine, corporate sponsors showing off their visions of the future, and all at family prices.

	May 7, 2010 Human and Neanderthal Genes 'Incredibly Similar' Modern humans and Neanderthals are more closely connected in the gene pool than expected, according to new research.

	May 4, 2010 Republicans Hope to Maintain Social Media Edge into Midterm Elections As part of a look at how both political parties are connecting with constituents on the Web, Ray Suarez reports on how Republicans and their allies are looking to harness new media in advance of this year's elections.

	May 4, 2010 CNET Editor on 3G iPad, Competition in Tablet Market, Robotic Diet Assistant We spoke with CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood back when the iPad was unveiled following months of speculation. We brought her back to chat about the rollout of the 3G iPad and whether that would slow down the data network in tech-heavy areas.



	APRIL April 30, 2010 Disaster Imminent for Sensitive Gulf Coast Ecosystems, Industries As high winds and waves push oil towards the shores of several states, Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert Twilley, professor of oceanography and coastal science at Louisiana State University about efforts to mitigate the environmental damage.

	April 27, 2010 Senate Committee Examines Mine Safety After Deadly W.Va. Explosion The country's top mine safety expert is part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners. For more on how mine disaster investigations are conducted, we spoke with Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward Jr., who covers the mining industry.

	April 23, 2010 Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Exploring Furthest Reaches of Space The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 20th birthday Saturday after launching on April 24, 1990. In the years since, it's taken about half a million pictures of the universe.

	April 23, 2010 Natural History Exhibit Asks: 'What Does It Mean to Be Human?' When scientists announced earlier this month they had discovered the fossils of what appears to be a new hominid species dating back almost 2 million years ago, it sparked new excitement -- and debate -- among researchers about our understanding of connections between our ape-like ancestors and the earliest human-like species.

	April 22, 2010 Gizmodo's Tale of New iPhone; Is New Droid Really 'Incredible'? Gizmodo reporter Matt Buchanan stopped by The Rundown again to discuss the saga of the lost and found possible new iPhone that has captured so much attention -- and generated so much debate -- in the tech and gadget world this week.

	April 22, 2010 Earth Day's 40th Anniversary Marked with Concerts, Idea Exchanges Countries around the world celebrated the 40th Earth Day on Thursday and throughout the week with activities such as fashion shows featuring recycled materials, seed plantings at the Shanghai Zoo and musicians in Morocco playing songs about the Earth.

	April 21, 2010 'Plastiki' Sets Sail to Raise Awareness of Ocean Pollution On March 20 the Plastiki, a 60-foot-long catamaran made entirely of recycled plastic, set sail from San Francisco bound for Sydney, Australia.

	April 20, 2010 Government Should Set Limits on Salt in Food, Report Says Americans consume unhealthy amounts of salt, and in order to help them cut back the government needs to begin regulating sodium levels in processed food, according to a new report by the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine.

	April 19, 2010 High Court Considers Free Speech on College Campuses, Workplace Privacy Limits Judy Woodruff talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about two major cases before the Supreme Court. The first is a clash over free-speech rights of religious groups on college campuses and the second deals with text messages and workplace privacy.

	April 19, 2010 Marcia Coyle: Supreme Court Weighs Privacy Limits of Texting at Work Marcia Coyle, NewsHour regular and Washington correspondent for the National Law Journal, spoke with us Monday afternoon about oral arguments heard before the Supreme Court earlier in the day.

	April 19, 2010 O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' on Obama Space 'Revolution,' Privatization Miles O'Brien made his second visit to NewsHour Plus to talk about the impact of President Barack Obama's speech to NASA and where the space agency's future may lead.

	April 16, 2010 'Krakatoa' Author on Iceland Volcano's Parallels With Eruptions Past For historical perspective on the Icelandic volcano eruption, Jeffrey Brown talks to Simon Winchester, author of "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883," about the massive 19th century eruption's impact on health, the economy and even art and literature.

	April 16, 2010 Twitter Hopes to Turn Tweets Into Profit Twitter may be one of the world's fastest-growing social media tools, but the question of how the 140-character micro-blogging site could turn tweets into dollar signs has gone unanswered since its launch in 2006.

	April 16, 2010 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book "Drive," about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace.

	April 16, 2010 A Trip Down RAM Memory Lane Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	April 15, 2010 Space Watchers Critique President Obama's Proposal for NASA's Future President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say is behind schedule and over budget.

	April 15, 2010 Terabytes of Tweets Headed to Library of Congress More than 6 billion public tweets -- the entire 'corpus' of the micro-blogging site Twitter -- are headed to the Library of Congress.

	April 8, 2010 News Wrap: Search Stalls for Missing W.Va. Miners In other news Thursday, explosive gasses again forced emergency crews to abandon rescue efforts in a West Virginia coal mine where 25 men died on Monday. Also, military officials said two U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq.

	April 8, 2010 Hominid Species Discovery Shows Transition Between Apes, Humans A fossil discovery in South Africa shows a transitional species lived at a time when humanity's ancestors were moving from a life in the trees to one on the ground.

	April 7, 2010 Future of Net Neutrality Debated After Ruling A federal court has ruled in favor of Internet provider Comcast in a victory that raises questions about the Federal Communications Commission's power to regulate the Web. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view on what it could mean for consumers.

	April 6, 2010 Court Rules Against FCC in 'Net Neutrality' Case A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Communication Commission overstepped its authority in 2008 when it sanctioned Comcast for slowing down some customers' Internet access, effectively reining in the agency's push for so-called net neutrality.

	April 5, 2010 Documentary Examines 'Righteous' Arab Actions During Holocaust Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks to Jeffrey Brown about "Among the Righteous," his eight-year project to document the stories of Arabs helping Jews during the Holocaust and the forthcoming PBS documentary based on his work.

	April 5, 2010 Silicon Valley Slump Shows Shift of U.S. Technology Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on how the economic downturn has hit Silicon Valley and what it means for the future of U.S. technological innovation.

	April 5, 2010 Consumers Weigh Apple's iPad Buzz, Future of Tablet Computing Apple's new iPad tablet hit stores over the weekend, selling some 300,000 devices on its first day. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view about the iPad and what it could mean for the future of mobile computing devices.

	April 5, 2010 iPad Roundup: What the Bloggers Have Said So Far Sixty-five days after it was announced, the iPad went on sale Saturday, selling more than 300,000 units before midnight.

	April 5, 2010 Silicon Valley Story: Applied Materials Executive Relocating to China Silicon Valley is looking deeply inward and finding things are not as they were. The valley is losing steam and perhaps the innovative spirit that made it the economic engine that propelled California and the U.S. into the front ranks of high tech.

	April 5, 2010 Patchwork Nation: Using Technology to Change the World Students, working on project called "The Young and the Wireless" traveled to most of Patchwork Nation's 12 communities to ask a short, immeasurably complex question: How would you use technology to the change the world?

	April 2, 2010 Can Genes Be Patented? Ruling Reignites Debate A federal court this week invalidated patents filed by biotech companies on the human genome, igniting debate on exactly who owns genetic research. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view on the legal implications of the case.

	April 2, 2010 Girls Investigate: From Face to Facebook Nadia's video and written commentary examine the rise of female-dominated social media. She talks to other teen girls about how social media networks like Facebook affect the quality of their social interaction.



	MARCH March 31, 2010 Offshore Drilling Advocates, Opponents Respond to Obama's New Policy Environmental groups had a range of reactions to President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he would lift a longstanding moratorium on new offshore oil drilling along parts of the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and northern Alaska. Most groups expressed concern, but some applauded or tepidly endorsed aspects of the new policy.

	March 31, 2010 Patchwork Nation: Ohio's Broadband Availability vs. Affordability The state of Internet connectivity in the U.S. has been a big story the past few weeks. Officials everywhere from the Federal Communications Commission to Google are looking to improve America's high-speed networks.

	March 30, 2010 World's Largest Particle Collider Sees First Successful Smash Scientists in Geneva fired up the world's most powerful particle-smashing machine Tuesday, beginning a run that they hope will provide insight into fundamental questions about what makes up the universe.

	March 29, 2010 Wired White House Looks to Harness New Media As part of a look at how both political parties are connecting with constituents on the Web, Ray Suarez reports on how Democrats are harnessing new media following President Obama's successful presidential campaign on the Web.

	March 29, 2010 NewsHour Plus 'This Week In Space' Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus.

	March 26, 2010 Scientists Create Tiny 'Invisibility Cloak' Scientists have created an "invisibility cloak" that can hide a tiny object from infrared light.

	March 26, 2010 The Things America Will Do for Google's High Speed Internet There are no concrete numbers, no official announcement date, not even a clear number of winners. But still, it's Google, and the news that the internet search giant will build "ultra-high speed broadband networks" in at least one community has sparked a flurry of application writing and wild publicity stunts.

	March 25, 2010 NewsHour Plus Wired Check 4G, 'Flutter Tests' and March Madness We recently talked to Mark McClusky, a senior editor at Wired in San Francisco. He tells us about Sprint's new devices and plans to roll out their 4G network. We also discuss the "flutter-test flight" of the new Boeing Dreamliner.

	March 25, 2010 Fossil Points to Unknown Human Species European researchers have found a 40,000-year-old shard of pinkie bone that may be evidence of a previously unknown human species.

	March 24, 2010 NewsHour Plus and Gizmodo Talk iPad and the 'Cloud' We're kicking off a new series of conversations called "NewsHour Plus" here on the Rundown that will explore how science and technology intersect with our daily lives.

	March 23, 2010 Google-China Dispute Puts Internet Freedoms Back in the Spotlight Chinese officials were quick to condemn Google's decision to move its search engine from mainland of China because of censorship and deterioration of the relationship following hacking in January. Gwen Ifill gets two points of view on the deteriorating relationship following hacking in January.

	March 23, 2010 Google's China Exit Elicits Mixed Reactions Google announced Monday that it will move its search portal from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong because of dissatisfaction with censorship and Internet security. Gwen Ifill reports.

	March 22, 2010 Google to Stop Censoring Search Results in China Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council, said, "We are disappointed that Google and the Chinese government were unable to reach an agreement that would allow Google to continue operating its search services in China on its google.

	March 19, 2010 Tiny Technology Holds Big Economic Potential In the latest in a series of reports making sense of the economy, economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the small scale of nanosciences and the big impact they could have on the economy.

	March 19, 2010 Reimagining Nanotechnology Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 18, 2010 NCAA Bracketology: The Science Behind March Madness It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Washington. But there are more than a few people turned away from their office windows, preoccupied with a much smaller orange orb. In case you hadn't heard, it's March Madness time.

	March 16, 2010 FCC Urges 20-Fold Internet Speed Increase in U.S. Broadband Plan The Federal Communications Commission formally unveiled Tuesday a sweeping proposal to expand broadband Internet access across the U.S., a critical peg of the Obama administration's efforts to boost the nation's global competitiveness.

	March 15, 2010 Obama and FCC Betting on Broadband as Stimulus The Federal Communications Commission and the Obama administration will unveil a plan Tuesday to broaden high-speed Internet access in the United States and encourage telecom companies to provide faster download speeds.

	March 10, 2010 Criticism of Climate Change Science Heats Up The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	March 5, 2010 Newspapers Making Public Data More Understandable for Readers For many citizens, public data often have been difficult to find and decipher. Last year, Data.Gov was launched with the stated purpose of increasing "public access to high-value, machine-readable datasets," part of a wider effort to make government more transparent.

	March 4, 2010 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand.

	March 1, 2010 Pew Study: News Becoming More Personalized, Participatory, Portable As you read this blog and watch this video online, you're digesting your news on the third-most-popular news platform: the Internet, a new study shows.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 24, 2010 Google Plans Rigorous Appeal of Executives' Conviction in Italy No one disputes that the Italian video -- posted online in 2006 -- showing a young man with Down syndrome being bullied was despicable. An organization working on behalf of people with Down syndrome complained to Google, which says it pulled the video off its site within hours.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Will Google Make us Smarter? Internet Experts Say Yes, but With Caveats In a widely-read 2008 article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, writer Nicholas Carr asked "Is Google Making us Stupid?" He argued that as people learn to surf the vast amounts of information available online, they are losing the ability to concentrate and "dive deeply" into a subject matter.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Personalized Genetic Test Offers New Way to Track Cancer By mapping the genetic code of malignant tumors, researchers have developed a new technique to identify and track cancer: a blood test derived from a patient's unique DNA.

	Feb. 16, 2010 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool After the massive earthquake in Haiti, Kate Starbird, a University of Colorado graduate student, and her colleagues decided to launch a project called "Tweak the Tweet." The objective: to repurpose tweets to connect people with emergency needs with those who can provide it.

	Feb. 12, 2010 Olympic Snowboarding Coach on Training Challenges, Technology He bears little resemblance to Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy and the cocktail isn't named after him. This Rob Roy's day job is building affordable housing projects for senior citizens in Oregon. But that's not all.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Google Looks to Speed Up Web Google wants to make the Web faster -- much faster. In a post on its corporate blog Wednesday, the world's largest search engine announced it will build ultra high-speed broadband networks that will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than the broadband most Americans use.

	Feb. 9, 2010 Getting Government Data Out to the Public: Data.gov Getting data out of government agencies can be difficult. It can involve FOIA requests and weeks -- sometimes months -- of waiting for a response, along with fees starting at $25.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Winter Forecast: Art to Blanket Region When it comes to photography, a Wilson Bentley image can be described much like his favorite subject, the snowflake: Each is one of a kind. After all, the Vermont farmer was the first to ever photograph one.

	Feb. 3, 2010 Pew Report: For Teens, Blogging on Decline as Social Media Use Grows Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Internet & American Life Project dropped by The Rundown to outline the highlight of their latest report examining social media use among teens and young adults.

	Feb. 2, 2010 Digital Nation: Exploring Technology's Impact on Society In an excerpt from the PBS program "Frontline," Rachel Dreztin examines how our brains are being shaped by technology, how companies are spicing up conference calls with avatars and how advances in weaponry have reshaped war.

	Feb. 2, 2010 Budget Cuts Launch Debate on NASA's Future Rather than send a man back to the moon, President Obama's proposed budget calls for a far less expensive plan of encouraging private companies to build spacecrafts for NASA to rent. But veterans of the space agency's golden years fear the decision puts NASA on a path to mediocrity.

	Feb. 2, 2010 Frontline's Digital Nation Explores Ones and Zeros All Around Us Digital Nation correspondent Douglas Rushkoff spoke with The Rundown to give us a sneak peak of the intriguing Frontline broadcast airing Tuesday night on many PBS stations.

	Feb. 1, 2010 President Obama's YouTube Interview: The New Fireside Chat? Fresh off his interview with President Barack Obama, YouTube's Steve Grove stopped by The Rundown Monday evening to discuss new ways the public is communicating its concerns and suggestions with the White House.



	JANUARY Jan. 27, 2010 Why the iPad May Prove to be an 'iLuxury' Item If they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer iPhones; if they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer MacBooks -- is the category Apple is trying to create with its new iPad sustainable?

	Jan. 26, 2010 Report: 'F' for Obama Administration's Biological Attack Readiness Margaret Warner speaks with former Senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent about a new report that grades the U.S. ability to respond to a terrorist attack utilizing weapons of mass destruction.

	Jan. 21, 2010 News Wrap: Senate's Reform Bill Won't Pass House, Warns Pelosi In other news, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that the Senate health care bill is unlikely to succeed in the House unless significantly altered, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Internet companies to resist censorship worldwide.

	Jan. 20, 2010 After Christmas Bomb Plot, New Airport Screening Techniques Examined Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before Senators today that airport screening techniques are vital to protecting the U.S. from terrorist threats. Ray Suarez reports on some of the latest technology that you might see in U.S. airports.

	Jan. 18, 2010 Texting for Charity: Cell Phone Users Sending Relief for Haiti In just five days, the Red Cross has raised more than $21 million for the relief effort in Haiti through text messages. As Tom Bearden reports, cellphones have emerged as the new big player in charitable giving.

	Jan. 14, 2010 More Headlines: China Responds to Google's Complaint While we'll once again be keeping the focus on Haiti, here are a few other stories making headlines this morning.

	Jan. 13, 2010 Google's Threats to Leave China Renew Censorship Concerns Internet giant Google said Wednesday that censorship efforts contributed to the company's threat to pull its business out of China. Jeffrey Brown talks to journalists for more.

	Jan. 13, 2010 Scientists Explain Geology of Haiti Earthquake Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries.

	Jan. 13, 2010 Wednesday's Headlines: Google Threatens to Pull Out of China While the earthquake in Haiti is the main story we're watching, here are few other headlines of note this morning.

	Jan. 8, 2010 Unveiling the Latest and Greatest in E-Reading Technology Every week, it seems, there's an announcement of a new electronic reader -- a new gadget for reading that is NOT one of those of soft or hardbound pieces of printed matter we've all carried around with us all our lives.

	Jan. 7, 2010 Conversation: The Latest in E-Readers In another in our series, "The Next Chapter of Reading," Jeffrey Brown talks to Wired staff writer Priya Ganapati, who is at the International Consumer Electronics Show, about what she's seeing in the latest e-reader products.

	Jan. 6, 2010 Astronomy Meeting Highlights New Planets, Hubble Images It's been a busy week for astronomy news, as more than 3,000 space scientists have gathered to present new research at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C.

	Jan. 4, 2010 After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology After looking back at technological advancements during the last decade, Ray Suarez talks to an expert panel about how technology may shape our lives in the next ten years.

	Jan. 4, 2010 Census Bureau Launches 2010 Road Tour The Census Bureau launched its 2010 campaign Monday and will spend $340 million on a media campaign to convince Americans to fill out and send back the decennial surveys.

	Jan. 4, 2010 Standing Tall Beneath Half-Mile-High Dubai Skyscraper The world's tallest skyscraper officially opened Monday in Dubai to great fanfare, but also to questions about the emirate's crushing debt problems.

	Jan. 1, 2010 Census: 308,400,408 Americans at Start of 2010 Another year, another few million Americans. There are 2,606,181 more Americans today than there were on Dec. 31, 2008, according to the Census Bureau's annual year-end projections. That's about 0.9 percent growth for the year.