Jul 12 These stairs recycle your energy so they’re easier to climb By Roni Dengler Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have built energy-recycling stairs that store a user’s energy during descent and return energy to the user during ascent. Continue reading
Jul 12 Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf finally breaks, releases giant iceberg By Nsikan Akpan After months of expectation, a gigantic piece of the Larsen C ice shelf broke off Antarctica sometime between Monday and Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 11 How to stay out of a nursing home and age independently By Roni Dengler A new study from Sweden outlines which aspects of a healthy lifestyle predict independent living late in life. Continue reading
Jul 10 Juno spacecraft to fly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot By Larisa Epatko On Monday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly over Jupiter’s most distinguishable and intriguing feature, its swirling Great Red Spot. Continue reading
Jul 07 Uranus’ magnetic forces switch ‘on and off’ By Nsikan Akpan Uranus’ weirdness takes a fresh form via a new model of its magnetosphere, just as NASA mulls a return to the icy giant. Continue reading
Jul 06 Trimming these invasive flowers could help curb malaria By Roni Dengler Biologists working in Mali found an invasive tree also doubles as a buffet and a haven for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch 6:21 New studies shed light on insecticide’s effect on bees, economic consequences of climate change By PBS News Hour Neonicotinoids, the popular insecticide used in agriculture, can be harmful to bees, according to new papers. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss some important findings and analyses on that story, as well as a recent study that… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch 5:52 From the wing of a wasp, scientists discover a new beer-making yeast By PBS News Hour If you enjoy a beer on a summer day, you can thank yeast, the microbes that ferment sugar into alcohol and give beer its character. After innumerable generations of using just two types of yeast, a lab in North Carolina… Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch 4:36 Antarctica is melting faster than scientists expected By PBS News Hour Scientists predict a sheet of ice 110 miles long -- the size of Delaware -- will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. In its July issue, National Geographic covers the effects that warming oceans will have on… Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch 2:49 EPA launching program to challenge climate science By PBS News Hour In the latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has recruited a team of researchers to challenge climate science. Emily Holden, who broke the story for E&E News’s ClimateWire,… Continue watching