Dec 14 Watch 7:54 This sacred mountain is the focal point of a fight over a giant telescope By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 14 4 in 10 babies born after Zika infection may have brain defects, researchers say By Helen Branswell, STAT The toll that Zika virus takes on pregnancies appears to be even higher than was previously estimated. Continue reading
Dec 13 20-sided crystal, once thought impossible, found in meteorite By Kristin Hugo Researchers have found an entirely new, extreme type of quasicrystal with an icosahedral -- 20-sided -- symmetry. Continue reading
Dec 13 Bill Gates and top investors launch $1 billion clean energy fund By Ryan Connelly Holmes The Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, which Bill Gates will chair and run with a host of other high-profile investors, is focused on clean energy technology. Continue reading
Dec 12 Here’s the first weather report for an exoplanet By Nsikan Akpan You may want to pack goggles and sunscreen before you visit HAT-P-7b, based on the first convincing report of weather on an exoplanet. Continue reading
Dec 12 Landing an airplane with John Glenn as my copilot By News Desk On May 17, 2006, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien got the chance to fly with his boyhood hero, astronaut and pilot John Glenn, for a story he was working on about the future of aviation. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch 9:58 U.S. builds first offshore wind farm By Saskia de Melker, Melanie Saltzman In the U.S. today, wind power accounts for about five percent of all electricity generation, but a new project aims to change that. A $300 million installation off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, takes the renewable energy technology… Continue watching
Dec 09 Entire chunk of feathered dinosaur discovered in amber By Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American Scientists announced yesterday in the journal Current Biology that they have found an entire chunk of a feathered dinosaur tail trapped in amber – feathers, flesh, bone and all. Continue reading
Dec 09 Energy Department workers sent detailed questionnaire by Trump transition team By Richard Lardner and Matthew Daly, Associated Press The document offers a window into how far the incoming Trump administration may go to reverse President Barack Obama's worldview on pressing energy and climate policies. Obama's allotted more than $90 billion in stimulus money to boost the clean energy… Continue reading
Dec 09 This jumping robot leaps to new heights By Leigh Anne Tiffany A new primate-inspired robot has a feature that is leaps and bounds above the rest. Continue reading