Jun 15 Mirror-image molecule near Milky Way’s heart gives glimmer of life’s origins By Nsikan Akpan A weird chemical phenomenon called chirality, which is critical for life, has been observed in space for the first time. Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 9:45 Baltimore’s dolphins moving from concrete tanks to seaside sanctuary By PBS News Hour The eight dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore live in sterile concrete tanks that bear no resemblance to their natural habitat, but soon they’ll be moving on up — down, actually — to an outdoor marine mammal sanctuary in… Continue watching
Jun 14 After life in captivity, dolphins to undergo sea change By Miles O'Brien Chesapeake, a 24-year-old bottlenose dolphin at the Baltimore National Aquarium, has always lived indoors in a concrete tank. But she and the seven others in her pod are destined for a sea change. The aquarium plans to build a natural… Continue reading
Jun 13 Blood donation restrictions for gay men ‘not supported by facts,’ AIDS experts say By Charles Piller, STAT Orlando shooting sparks calls to end limits on gay men donating blood. Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch 22:15 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode June 11, 2016 By PBS News Hour On Saturday’s edition of PBS NewsHour Weekend, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks to expand the electoral map and U.S.-backed forces make key advances on the Islamic State in Syria. Later, New York City eases away from car culture with… Continue watching
Jun 11 This website makes organ transplants in the U.S. possible By Eric Boodman, STAT The DonorNet website matches available organs to needy patients, kicking off a race against time to get kidneys, livers, and more to transplant recipients. Continue reading
Jun 09 What a smell looks like By Nsikan Akpan, Matt Ehrichs Smells are normally invisible, but this lab in Colorado uses lasers to bring odors to life. The research is part of a nationwide project to build a robot that can smell. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 5:52 NASA scientists try to stop space fires — by setting them By PBS News Hour Confined spaces, low gravity and high concentrations of oxygen mean any unexpected fire on a space station could well be a death sentence, especially since fire extinguishers aren’t very effective away from Earth. So NASA scientists are trying to develop… Continue watching
Jun 06 Watch 52:47 PBS NewsHour full episode June 6, 2016 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders go all-in in the Golden State ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Also: Amy Walter and Stuart Rothenberg talk politics, why Gary Johnson thinks 2016 is a third-party year, Muhammad Ali’s legacy… Continue watching
Jun 06 World’s largest radio telescope faces retirement due to stagnant funding By Sarah Scoles, Scientific American The National Science Foundation is considering pulling its support from the famous Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico… Continue reading