Oct 19 How winning Mega Millions could lead to bankruptcy By Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation Looking at lottery winners approximately 10 years after winning showed they saved just 16 cents of every dollar won. Continue reading
Oct 19 How the Smithsonian helped the FBI in the case of stolen ruby slippers By Julia Griffin Conservators put the FBI’s slippers through a battery of scientific tests. Their conclusion? These weren’t just any pair of heels. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch Nonprofit helping low-income patients describes itself as 'Match.com meets the Peace Corps' By Cat Wise Physician shortages, as well as cost and distance, can make specialty care prohibitive for many low-income patients. A nonprofit aims to tackle those challenges by utilizing telehealth technology and retiring, volunteer doctors. Special correspondent Cat Wise explores “The MAVEN Project.”… Continue watching
Oct 14 Rewriting reproduction: With stem cells and CRISPR, scientists breed mice with same-sex parents By Andrew Joseph, STAT For the first time, scientists said Thursday that they had bred mice with two genetic fathers. Continue reading
Oct 13 Watch 5:44 This leather substitute is grown in a New Jersey lab By Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo, Christopher Booker Modern Meadow, a New Jersey-based startup, is using biotechnology to produce material that looks and feels similar to leather. The company says that producing this leather-like material, made of lab-grown collagen, carries a lower environmental impact than other means of… Continue watching
Oct 12 DNA ancestry searches can now identify most white Americans. Here's why that's legally questionable By Nsikan Akpan Police identified the Golden State Killer with a genetic ancestry search for his distant relatives. These two studies show how easy that could be done for anyone. Continue reading
Oct 11 A quiet rise in unvaccinated children could put the U.S. at risk of outbreaks By Jamie Leventhal For the third consecutive year, unvaccinated communities have grown, the CDC reported Thursday. One school in Oregon has toddler vaccination rates lower than those in Venezuela. Continue reading
Oct 11 Why Hurricane Michael took everyone by surprise and what to expect after it's gone By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin At the moment, the reported links between Hurricane Michael and climate change are murky, at best. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch 7:42 What's on your citrus fruit? Trump's EPA fights to keep controversial insecticide in use By Miles O'Brien Citrus growers hope to fend off fruit-munching katydids, but one weapon is under scrutiny. Researchers found that children growing up near fields where the insecticide chlorpyrifos was deployed exhibited autism-like symptoms. A court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban… Continue watching
Oct 10 The Plastic Problem By Travis Daub By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. PBS NewsHour takes a closer look at this now ubiquitous material, how it’s impacting the world and ways we can break our plastic addiction. Continue reading