Sep 13 Watch antibiotic-resistant bacteria evolve right before your eyes By Lora Strum, Julia Griffin It’s spreading! Scientists at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Technion-Israel have designed a way to document bacteria as the microbes become impervious to antibiotics. Continue reading
Sep 13 NASA says August and July are the hottest months on record By Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako NASA said earlier this year that the heat that has permeated 2016 is caused by both the El Nino weather pattern and the underlying effects of greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch 3:52 These vivid NYC murals spotlight climate-threatened birds By PBS News Hour According to the National Audubon Society, climate change poses a serious threat to a large number of North America’s birds. But a street art project in New York City aims to call attention to their plight by creating large-scale murals… Continue watching
Sep 08 Interactive: Lionfish invasion By Megan Crigger Once just an alluring pet, the ravenous lionfish is now a predatory threat to Atlantic reefs. Continue reading
Sep 08 Where will wild things go once their land is gone? By Leigh Anne Tiffany In just two decades, the world has lost about a tenth of its wilderness, according to a new study. Continue reading
Sep 08 Scientists name parasite in a tribute to Obama By Julia Griffin Already the Commander in Chief and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Obama now has another honor: the namesake of a new species. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 8:44 Why it’s so hard to fight extremist propaganda online By PBS News Hour How do you deter people from being seduced by messages of extremism on social media? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien looks at some of the strategies, including videos that provide a counter-narrative to the Islamic State and a computer program that… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 10:45 Seeing the future of climate policy under the next president By PBS News Hour There is probably no greater divergence between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s views than on climate change. Clinton thinks it poses grave danger, while Trump thinks it’s a fantasy. William Brangham asks The New York Times’ Coral Davenport and The… Continue watching
Sep 07 Cancer ‘moonshot’ panel releases blueprint, but lacks guarantees on funding By Nsikan Akpan The cancer moonshot Blue Ribbon panel releases a 10-point plan for fighting the multifaceted disease, as Congress deliberates the funds for the initiative. Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch 8:43 Can the high-tech hunt for terrorists stop lone wolf attacks? By PBS News Hour Take a look at the room 9/11 built: The operations center at the National Counterterrorism Center aggregates data in hopes that analysts will be able to predict the next terrorist attack. With the advent of “social media intelligence,” answers are… Continue watching