Mar 18 What we’ve learned about Pluto since the flyby By Nsikan Akpan NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to astonish in new set of five studies on the dwarf planet. Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch 53:30 PBS NewsHour full episode March 17, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, House Speaker Paul Ryan insists he won’t stand for the GOP’s presidential nomination at the RNC convention. Also: Congress grills officials on Flint’s water crisis, SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland visits Capitol Hill, controversy over whether college… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch 9:00 No more Shamu — SeaWorld to end breeding of killer whales By PBS News Hour SeaWorld has made headlines several times in the past decade: trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed by a captive orca during a live show in 2010, and a 2013 documentary focused intense scrutiny on the family-oriented theme park over the use… Continue watching
Mar 15 Self-driving cars are ‘absolutely not’ ready for deployment By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Self-driving cars aren't yet able to handle bad weather, including standing water, drizzling rain, sudden downpours or snow. Continue reading
Mar 15 CDC: Opioid painkillers shouldn’t be first choice for chronic pain By Ed Silverman, STAT After months of controversy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday published prescribing guidelines to address the epidemic of deaths and overdoses attributed to opioid painkillers. Continue reading
Mar 15 When a patient threatens to shoot, how does a doctor respond? By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT A medical student recalls an experience with a racist patient, while two new studies outline how doctors react to difficult encounters. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 53:35 PBS NewsHour full episode March 14, 2016 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, more campaign chaos emerged as candidates readied for Tuesday’s primaries. Also, a look inside the battle for Ohio, Amy Walter and Stuart Rothenberg talk politics, the migrant crisis continues to worsen as Syrian peace talks begin,… Continue watching
Mar 14 Before T-rex became humongous, it learned to hear footsteps By Nsikan Akpan Tyrannosaurus rex, the behemoth king of the late ages of the dinosaurs, grew its brain before its noteworthy body. That’s according to scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, who today unveiled the fossils for a new species… Continue reading
Mar 14 3 reasons Pi Day is a sham By Nsikan Akpan Pi isn't the special snowflake of your mathematical dreams. Continue reading
Mar 13 The heroes of Fukushima Dai-ichi, but don’t call them that By Miles O'Brien He was a shift supervisor on duty on March 11, 2011 when the earthquake and nuclear meltdown occurred in Japan, and by all accounts performed heroically inside a pitch dark control room at a nuclear power plant that was melting… Continue reading