Oct 20 Watch 3:48 Encouraging girls to become scientists? It’s not rocket science By PBS News Hour Women in the U.S. receive less than 20 percent of Bachelor's degrees in computer science, engineering and physics. Eileen Pollack, one of the first two women to receive an undergraduate degree in physics at Yale, offers a solution to getting… Continue watching
Oct 17 Watch 1:39 New imagery from Pompeii yields surprising findings about ancient humans By PBS News Hour Researchers in Italy are now using modern medical technology to shed more light on the ancient mystery of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii. NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports. Continue watching
Oct 17 Robots teach themselves martial arts to avoid smashing into the ground By Nsikan Akpan A new computer program from Georgia Institute of Technology takes tips from judo. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch 6:39 These hunter-gatherer tribes sleep less than you, and sleep better By PBS News Hour By studying the habits of three hunter-gatherer groups who live much the way humans have for thousands of years, a team of scientists is challenging conventional wisdom about how much sleep we need. Hari Sreenivasan goes to UCLA to learn… Continue watching
Oct 15 Did our paleo ancestors sleep better than us? By Nsikan Akpan Did the inventions of modern electricity, the light bulb and the Internet lead to less sleep? A new UCLA study of hunter-gatherer populations has a surprising answer. Continue reading
Oct 14 The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures By Nsikan Akpan A new photobiography details Sally Ride's childhood, her early struggles with stardom and the scientific zeal of America's first woman in space. Continue reading
Oct 12 Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are? By Nsikan Akpan Neuroscientists at Yale University discover a way to identify individuals and predict their intelligence levels by using brain fingerprints based on functional MRI scans. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch 1:31 Scientist who discovered HIV says achieving remission in patients may be ‘feasible’ By PBS News Hour More than 30 years after she identified one of the most pernicious viruses to infect humankind, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering HIV, is retiring. Barré-Sinoussi says even though a cure may never… Continue watching
Oct 09 Innovation ‘isn’t so much about the eureka moment’ By Laura Santhanam Innovators rarely travel a straight path to arrive at a new idea. Failure -- lots of failure -- often paves the way. Learn what Reebok's Paul Litchfield has to say about what innovation looks like in his work. Continue reading
Oct 07 DNA repair research wins 3 scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry By Nsikan Akpan Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar split the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Continue reading