Jun 06 Bellies full of microplastic rob baby fish of their basic instincts By Nsikan Akpan European perch stuff themselves with microplastics rather than natural food, derailing their development, according to new research from Sweden. Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch 6:21 Restoring San Francisco Bay’s wetlands one native plant at a time By PBS News Hour The San Francisco Bay’s wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate due to encroaching development, leaving the local ecosystem at risk. Moreover, the wetlands can store as much carbon as a tropical rainforest, an invaluable asset in the effort to… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch 2:37 Teens on being tethered to their phones and social media By PBS News Hour Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media, and most of them can’t even conceive of a time where people sat around the dinner table without checking their Instagram pages. We asked a handful of eighth-graders… Continue watching
Jun 02 The secret things you give away through your phone metadata By Nsikan Akpan Two studies explain exactly what people can learn from your metadata...and how to stop them. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch 7:10 Beam me up — NASA experiments with inflatable modules By PBS News Hour Over the weekend, astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station added a module like none other. Think an RV that expands out the back with extra space for sleeping quarters. In the case of the ISS, it was an inflatable… Continue watching
May 31 This innovative, wound-filling sponge just saved its first soldier By News Desk XSTAT, a device designed to staunch bleeding from combat wounds -- when traditional methods are too slow or insufficient -- was successful in its first documented use in the field. Continue reading
May 30 How might cellphone signals cause cancer? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American The release of a study Friday linking cancer in rats to the type of radiation emitted by cell phones presents some of the strongest implications in more than two decades of research that higher doses of such signals could be… Continue reading
May 28 Watch 3:33 Alzheimer’s could be caused by past infections, researchers say By PBS News Hour More than five million Americans live with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease, and it is also the fifth leading cause of death for people over 65 years old in the U.S. A new study suggests it may stem from the… Continue watching
May 28 What you need to know about the new study on cellphones and cancer By Sheila Kaplan, STAT The new study of cancer risk from cellphones marks a big change in what researchers think they know about the dangers — which is why it’s sure to get an extra close look from scientists, industry, and government regulators. Continue reading
May 28 How will driverless cars make life-or-death decisions? By Kamala Kelkar In a future when cars no longer need humans to drive, decisions about who might live or die in a crash are already being made — by the so-called “moral codes” preprogrammed into a car's neurology. Continue reading