Mar 16 Scientists have discovered 4.2 billion-year-old remnants of the Earth's first crust By Andrew Wagner Scientists find 4.2 billion-year-old remnants of the planet’s earliest crust right in our continental backyard. Continue reading
Mar 16 Trump's budget cuts drastically into science and health programs By Nsikan Akpan The White House’s budget proposal for 2018, released Thursday, seeks cuts in science and health agencies across the board. Yet, some budgetary wallets will be lightened more than others. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 6:26 Typing sentences by simply thinking is possible with new technology By PBS News Hour For decades, researchers have worked to find and create more direct connections between the human brain and computers. New groundbreaking technology may now help improve the lives of people who are paralyzed or experience severe limb weakness due to illness… Continue watching
Mar 15 How global warming leads to tiny horses and other shrinking mammals By Nsikan Akpan Ancient teeth reveal when the Earth gets warmer, mammals shrink consistently in size. Continue reading
Mar 14 This Pi Day, use math to beat your friends at classic toy games By Kristin Hugo On this most circular of pi days, we present three classic toys -- hula hoops, yo-yo's and Connect Four -- and explore their mechanics with mathematicians and physicists. Continue reading
Mar 14 This insurance company wants to analyze your saliva to predict when you'll die By Rebecca Robbins, STAT A life insurance company is turning to the hot, but still unproven, field of epigenetics to try to bet on how long you’re likely to live. Continue reading
Mar 14 Meet the farm boy from Wales who gave the world 'pi' By Gareth Ffowc Roberts for The Conversation One of the most important numbers in maths might today be named after the Greek letter π or “pi”, but the convention of representing it this way actually doesn’t come from Greece at all. Continue reading
Mar 10 Why did humans evolve big brains? We don't know, but math can help By Kristin Hugo Evolutionary biologists can use this new equation to test their ideas for how the human brain got so big. Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch 6:12 Stamping out smallpox is just one chapter of his Brilliant life story By PBS News Hour Larry Brilliant jokes that he doesn't live up to his last name, but he has lived a remarkable life, from his early days in the San Francisco hippie scene, to his work as one of the world’s leading disease fighters… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch 4:38 When smart devices are always on, vulnerability may be a trade-off of convenience By PBS News Hour WikiLeaks' release of a trove of documents about the CIA's ability to breach smartphone and TV encryption was a revelation of potential vulnerabilities that surprised many. Hari Sreenivasan separates fact from fiction about their capabilities to take advantage of those… Continue watching