Science May 31 Investigating Bombs with Robots and Shrapnel EmbedVideo(6586, 482, 304); For Tuesday's NewsHour, Science correspondent Miles O'Brien visited the barren desert canyons of New Mexico, where investigators study explosives... by building and exploding bombs. While there, they assembled a pressure-cooker bomb -- the kind used…
Science May 17 Cicada Sighting! Bug-Eyed Critters Emerging in Northern Virginia A cicada perches on a leaf of grass at Virginia's Bull Run Regional Park. The full brood of cicadas is expected to emerge en masse in late May or June. Photos by Jenny Marder. After an afternoon hunting for cicadas…
World Mar 22 Startupland: Ireland Climbing out of Recession One Chip at a Time Trams on Dublin's new light rail system stop for passengers. Photos by Ray Suarez/PBS NewsHour. There's no oil. The domestic market is small, and scared. Overseas customers who once made you rich are now in economic crisis. After a…
Science Mar 14 Strong Signs of Higgs Discovery A representation of the innerworkings of the Atlas particle detector painted on one of the walls at the CERN campus in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images. New results from Geneva's Large Hadron Collider "strongly indicate" that scientists have…
Politics Feb 26 Our Past Still Speaks: Re-examining the Voting Rights Act President Lyndon Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965, the year it was signed into law. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Let me begin this discussion of the landmark Voting Rights…
Science Feb 04 Now Is the Winter of Our Discovery: Tracing History Through DNA Project osteologist Jo Appleby points out damage to a skull, believed to be that of Richard III, during a news conference in Leicester, central England, on Monday. Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters. King Richard III, depicted by some as a wicked,…
Health Sep 27 A Future Without AIDS? Global Health Leaders Point to Education, Prevention Watch a replay of Ray Suarez at Columbia University moderating a panel of global health leaders as they discuss the future of combating AIDS. If you're old enough, you can remember when you first heard about a disease, or a…
Health Sep 26 Global Health Leaders Have Vision for World Without AIDS Watch Ray Suarez moderate a panel of global health leaders as they discuss the future of combating AIDS. A live stream will be available here from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET Thursday. Thursday in New York, the ICAP at the…
Politics Sep 06 Outside the Convention Hall, Meeting Politics Geeks and True Believers // The crowds at conventions build in two directions... early to late in the day, and early to late in the week. This makes the early hours of opening day a time you can pass by a delegation and talk…