Aug 17 Olympic athletes use them, but do these recovery therapies really work? By Julia Griffin The proven benefits of athletic therapies like cupping, a traditional eastern medicine technique made famous by Michael Phelps and others at the Rio Games, are often unclear. Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch 53:53 PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 16, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, flooding in Louisiana worsens, with the death toll at 8 and some 40,000 homes affected. Also: the largest prisoner release from Guantanamo Bay, discussing Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s plans for combating ISIS, sexual harassment in… Continue watching
Aug 16 Smashing past global temperature highs, July was the hottest month on record By Eugene Mason 2016 is also quickly outpacing last year as the hottest year ever. Continue reading
Aug 16 Does food make the Olympian? By Leigh Anne Tiffany Olympic athletes can burn thousands of calories as they strive for gold medals, making food essential for their training. We were fascinated by how professional athletes fuel themselves for Olympic events, so we reached out to the Olympians themselves. Here’s… Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch 8:26 Can this project clean up millions of tons of ocean plastic? By Saskia de Melker, Melanie Saltzman About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year -- enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a method that researchers… Continue watching
Aug 14 Why Aedes aegypti are so good at transmitting Zika, and other FAQs By Kamala Kelkar There are nearly 200 types of mosquitoes in the U.S., but one of them -- Aedes aegypti -- has been making headlines for transmitting Zika virus more frequently than any of the others have so far. Continue reading
Aug 13 Hospitals are throwing out organs and denying transplants to meet federal standards By Casey Ross, STAT Hospitals across the United States are throwing away less-than-perfect organs and denying the sickest people lifesaving transplants out of fear that poor surgical outcomes will result in a federal crackdown. Continue reading
Aug 12 Meet the oldest known vertebrate in the world By Julia Griffin A Greenland shark just took home the gold medal for longest-living vertebrate. This slow-moving native of the Arctic and North Atlantic can live to be 272 years old, according to a new study in Science. Continue reading
Aug 12 Inside the extraordinary nose of a search-and-rescue dog By Nsikan Akpan, Matt Ehrichs Rescue dogs are super-smellers, and the motley crew of scientists is figuring out why. Continue reading
Aug 12 What are PFASs, the toxic chemicals being found in drinking water? By Mark Scialla Six million Americans are exposed to hazardous levels of PFAS chemicals due pollution from military and industrial sites, according to a new study from Harvard University. Continue reading