Feb 18 At a resurrected climate conference, concerns loom that CDC scientists may be silenced By Max Blau, STAT Organizers of a conference on public health and climate change urged policy experts and policymakers to mobilize in the wake of a new administration they say has denied the impact, and even the existence, of global warming. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 6:56 What EPA's Scott Pruitt means for environmental policy and regulation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 17 Native Americans brace for impact as EPA undergoes changes By Kristin Hugo In the past few weeks, EPA workers have worried about political threats to the agency under the Trump administration. Tribal leaders say changing environmental protections would affect them first. Continue reading
Feb 16 'Eagle eye' lenses may inspire hi-def cameras as thin as a strand of hair By Andrew Wagner Miniature lenses that mimic the eyes of predatory birds could shrink a camera’s size to less than 1/100th of an inch -- and in the meantime, revolutionize a host of compact technologies. Continue reading
Feb 16 Broad Institute wins heated dispute over CRISPR patents By Sharon Begley, STAT The U.S. patent office ruled on Wednesday that hotly disputed patents on the revolutionary genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 belong to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, dealing a blow to the University of California. Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 8:37 How scientists are scrambling to safeguard vital environmental data By PBS News Hour Since the election, members of many scientific and research groups have been archiving government data they believe could be jeopardized by the new administration. Their fear is that without data, you can’t have environmental regulation. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien took… Continue watching
Feb 13 Watch 9:36 A new generation of human rights investigators turns to high-tech methods By PBS News Hour Humanitarian crises like those in Syria’s Aleppo sometimes make headlines. But how do we identify such atrocities when they are occurring thousands of miles away? A new program at UC Berkeley is training students to leverage social media, geolocation and… Continue watching
Feb 13 The sun's spin is slowing, and we might know why By Andrew Wagner Since the early '90s, scientists have known the sun’s surface rotates more slowly than its interior. But they haven't been able to pinpoint why--until now. Continue reading
Feb 10 What engineers are doing about the 300-foot hole in California's Oroville Dam spillway By Dave Berndtson Heavy rains are washing away California’s drought, but now a new problem has surfaced for state officials. Continue reading
Feb 10 A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games By Andrew Wagner Through chess, Jeopardy, poker and checkers, Deep Blue, Watson, Libratus and Chinook changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence. Continue reading