Jan 20 Watch 8:55 Paralyzed outdoorsman designs bike to cycle woods again By Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman Christian Bagg was an avid outdoorsman when a 1996 accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. As a mechanical designer, he spent years attempting to create a wheelchair that could withstand the rugged trails of the Canadian Rockies near… Continue watching
Jan 20 The global race for groundwater speeds up to feed agriculture's growing needs By Grant Ferguson, Jennifer C. McIntosh, The Conversation Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world. Water tables have been falling in many regions for decades, particularly in areas with intensive agriculture. Wells are going dry and there are few long-term solutions available —… Continue reading
Jan 18 WATCH: 2019's only total lunar eclipse By Vicky Stein The eclipse began Sunday night, Jan. 20. You don't need to call it a ‘super blood wolf moon.'… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch 2:22 Giant ice disk forms in Maine river, enthralling residents By Julia Griffin In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, an unusual phenomenon has appeared in a river in Westbrook, Maine: A giant ice disk that spans about 100 yards across and spins counter-clockwise. The disk is a natural although uncommon occurrence… Continue watching
Jan 17 How the shutdown might end, according to game theory By Nsikan Akpan We can find some clues to how the shutdown might end in game theory, which uses math to map out how players and their strategies evolve in the real world. Continue reading
Jan 16 300 million years ago, our ancestors walked tall. This robot shows you how By Vicky Stein The fictional Sherlock Holmes could read footprints — in soil, snow, carpet, dust and even blood. Researchers today are similarly using tracks caught in stone — plus a robot — to recreate a creature that lived 300 million years ago. Continue reading
Jan 10 Why these sea slugs look so much like David Bowie By Vicky Stein By drawing comparisons between sea slugs and Ziggy Stardust, the Bowiebranchia blog exposes the wild, beautiful and competitive evolution of both. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 3:42 With the government shutdown, American scientific progress is disrupted Even scientists who don’t work for the government, but receive federal money for research and grants, are among the hundreds of thousands of Americans affected by the government shutdown, now in its 19th day. That means important work and research… Continue watching
Jan 09 Watch 6:44 Virtual reality allows neurosurgery patients to 'tour' their own brains By Cat Wise Over the past year, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has been pioneering a virtual reality technology that enables pediatric patients, and their parents, to “tour” their brains before surgery. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on how this 3-D platform may help… Continue watching
Jan 09 Why we still need paper maps By Vicky Stein "Maps can take you places that you wouldn’t think to go," said Betsy Mason, coauthor of the book "All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey."… Continue reading