Aug 25 Watch 7:12 On the U.S.-Mexico border, water shortages loom as the region races for solutions By PBS News Hour Population growth and climate change could in the coming years bring water shortages along the Rio Grande river, a source of drinking water and agriculture for U.S. and Mexico. “Shallow Waters,” a nine-part series by Quartz and the Texas Observer,… Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch 6:00 Using feathers and bone fragments, scientists paint a picture of the ocean's past By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green At the Ocean Memory Lab, part of California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium, scientists are undertaking a study of the world’s oceans and marine life before plastic and chemical pollutants were introduced to the water. By studying the feeding habits of seabirds… Continue watching
Aug 25 Missing tape discovery solves 40-year lunar mystery By Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American Traces of the Apollo astronauts’ presence lingered long after they left. Continue reading
Aug 24 How Hurricane Lane's torrential rain mirrors Hurricane Harvey By Nsikan Akpan Hurricane Lane’s rains call to mind the downpour of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas a year ago Saturday. But the hurricanes are likely to have two very different outcomes. Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch 2:58 How a four-legged mowing system keeps solar farms producing energy Despite the advantages they offer in terms of leveraging renewable resources, solar farms also bring with them special challenges. Among these is controlling vegetation growth around the panels--essential for ensuring a consistent, stable power source, but a laborious and time-consuming… Continue watching
Aug 24 Russian bots tried to sow discord over vaccines during the 2016 election, study finds By Helen Branswell, STAT An analysis of Twitter accounts previously identified as having been operated by Russian bots and trolls found they dove into the vaccine debate as early as January 2015… Continue reading
Aug 23 This ancient teenager is the first known person with parents of two different species By Michelle Langley, The Conversation A new ancient DNA study reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species. Continue reading
Aug 21 Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds By Nsikan Akpan Police militarization neither reduces rates of violent crime nor changes the number of officers assaulted or killed, a new study finds. It is arguably the nation’s first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized police forces. Continue reading
Aug 18 This scientist chases wildfires to better predict fire behavior By Andrea Thompson, Scientific American To know what a wildfire might do next, researchers need to know how an inferno interacts with the atmosphere. Continue reading
Aug 18 Column: NYU medical school students are getting free tuition. But everyone will reap benefits By Eli Cahan, STAT Free tuition for medical students could help improve access to care by minority patients and ease the looming physician shortage. Continue reading