Health Apr 26 Next generation of doctors prepares to tackle rural health care shortage in West Virginia Nearly two-thirds of areas with a shortage of primary healthcare professionals are in rural communities. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, William Brangham visited a hospital and a medical school in…
Science Jun 16 Your next happy hour buzz, brought to you by bees Only two species of yeast --- ale yeast and lager yeast -- have been used for traditional beer brewing over the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest place: On bees…
Health Mar 27 How healthy are the Affordable Care Act marketplaces? The Affordable Care Act withstood a Republican effort to "repeal and replace," but there are problems with the current law that lawmakers acknowledge need to be addressed. We meet a few Americans who have concerns about Obamacare. Then Mary Agnes…
Politics Mar 23 How GOP health bill could dramatically change lives of small business employees, Medicaid recipients How will the Republican health care plan affect insurance coverage and costs if the Affordable Care Act replacement becomes law? We share stories of Americans likely to be affected, including a small business owner and her employees, and an unemployed…
Health Mar 23 Did Obamacare help or hurt you? The PBS NewsHour asked people if they were concerned or encouraged by possible, future changes to the Affordable Care Act. More than 1,000 people responded from across the country -- from Maine to Missouri and California.
Science Mar 07 Want to cut carbon emissions? Try growing cement bricks with bacteria A North Carolina startup grows "biocement" bricks to circumvent the hefty load of fossil fuels needed for normal cement.
Science Jan 12 Coral bleaching is killing reefs. Is the answer a great migration? Coral bleaching threatens a third of the planet's reef ecosystems, but can these creatures adapt? Take a voyage deep into the Atlantic Ocean, as the Nekton Mission searches for an answer.
Science Aug 24 How do you stop invasive lionfish? Maybe with a robotic zapper A nonprofit company is engineering robots to cull invasive lionfish, a detrimental species in the Atlantic Ocean.
Science Aug 12 Inside the extraordinary nose of a search-and-rescue dog Rescue dogs are super-smellers, and the motley crew of scientists is figuring out why.
Science Jun 09 What a smell looks like Smells are normally invisible, but this lab in Colorado uses lasers to bring odors to life. The research is part of a nationwide project to build a robot that can smell.