Jun 16 Your next happy hour buzz, brought to you by bees By Nsikan Akpan, Matt Ehrichs Only two species of yeast --- ale yeast and lager yeast -- have been used for traditional beer brewing over the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest place: On bees… Continue reading
Jun 15 Column: What does 'clean coal' mean and can it save the planet? By Emily S. Bernhardt The difference between coal and renewable energy is not whether they each pollute, but the forms that pollution takes, writes Duke University ecologist Emily S. Bernhardt. Continue reading
Jun 15 Want to charge your phone while moving around? This Stanford lab can help By Andrew Wagner Stanford engineers develop a way to wirelessly transmit energy to a device while it's on the move. Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 11:35 Could carbon capturing make 'clean coal' a reality? By Miles O'Brien Coal is still very much at the center of the debate on the future of energy. For some, the holy grail is a new type of technology that captures some coal carbon emissions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Jun 10 Is Detroit's vacant land helping bumblebees bounce back? By Michael D. Regan A recent study out of the University of Michigan shows Detroit had higher bumblebee numbers than less-urbanized areas of the states. Evidence suggests thousands of vacant lots in Detroit may be the reason behind the uptick. Continue reading
Jun 10 Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins By Kate Wong, Scientific American The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved. Continue reading
Jun 08 How the back pain industry is taking patients for an unhealthy ride By Danielle Venton and Jon Brooks, KQED Future of You Searching for solutions to back pain can lead sufferers into an expensive and sometimes dangerous maze of ineffectual treatments, procedures and pills, journalist and investigative reporter Cathryn Jakobson Ramin found. Continue reading
Jun 08 Grab your earplugs. Invasive coqui frogs gain foothold in California By Kerry L. Shaw, Scientific American Coqui frogs -- voracious, cacaphonous amphibians -- have already disrupted the ecosystem of Hawaii's Big Island. Now they've got a foothold in the Golden State… Continue reading
Jun 08 Even moderate drinking may expedite brain decline By Ike Swetlitz, STAT Drinking just a handful of beers a week is associated with long-term changes to a person’s brain, a new study finds — although the functional meaning of these changes is unclear. Continue reading
Jun 07 Einstein's theory and 'bent light' reveal a way to weigh stars for first time By Andrew Wagner Rather than expose whether celestial objects need to go on a diet, this new weight scale offers a chance to learn more about the life cycle of stars, including our sun. Continue reading