Oct 06 Oregon to transform lakes into batteries to charge electricity grid By Jes Burns, OPB/EarthFix A project in Oregon’s Klamath County is aiming to complement renewable energy development in the Northwest by creating a giant water battery. Continue reading
Oct 06 Even with medical advances, humans may not live past 130, study says By Andrew Joseph and Natalia Bronshtein, STAT Humans have squeezed almost as much they can out of their natural lifespans and are approaching the biological limit of how long they can extend their years. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch 3:30 News Wrap: Obama praises Paris climate agreement By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, President Obama praised the Paris climate agreement, set to take effect next month, as “the best possible shot to save the one planet that we’ve got.” Also, the United Nations Security Council agreed that Antonio… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch 5:46 The amazing, complicated science of the Nobel winners explained By PBS News Hour A trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating some of the world’s tiniest machines. Their nanorobots use extremely controlled movements to perform tasks that the creators hope will one day be useful in the world of… Continue watching
Oct 05 Epic yawns boost brain growth, study says By Sharon Begley, STAT If you have a big brain, you can credit yawning for promoting brain growth and activity, the researchers found. And if you have a small brain, you can blame the fact that you don’t yawn long enough. Continue reading
Oct 05 World’s tiniest machines win 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for three researchers By Nsikan Akpan Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa split the 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for building the world's smallest machines out of chemical molecules. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch 3:22 News Wrap: EU backing pushes Paris climate pact into effect By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the path is now clear for the Paris climate change accord to take effect. It got backing from enough countries to account for 55 percent of global emissions. Also, there’s a new surge in the… Continue watching
Oct 04 Why it’s so hard to beef up protections for the world’s most trafficked animal By Gretchen Frazee A new international agreement plans to ban the trade of the world's most trafficked animal: the pangolin. Continue reading
Oct 04 Nobel physics winners defined new class of exotic matter By Nsikan Akpan The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics is shared by three scientists -- David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz -- for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Here's what that means. Continue reading
Oct 03 Why this Japanese scientist won a 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine for cell ‘self-eating’ By Nsikan Akpan Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries in autophagy. Wait, what's autophagy?… Continue reading