Oct 24 Watch 4:27 What will Dakota Access protesters do if final pipeline restrictions are lifted? By PBS News Hour Over the weekend, more than 120 protesters who oppose the Dakota Access oil pipeline were arrested, part of a months-long campaign by more than a hundred different Native American tribes. William Brangham joins Judy Woodruff for an update on where… Continue watching
Oct 24 Telling a lie makes way for the brain to keep lying By Simon Makin, Scientific American A new study from University College London and Duke University shows how the brain adapts to dishonesty and telling tall tales. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch and learn how termites turn your house into a poop palace By Gabriela Quirós, KQED Science Researchers are now trying to take advantage of termites’ digestive systems to control the pests. Continue reading
Oct 24 With email dumps, WikiLeaks probes the limits of full transparency By Raphael Satter, Associated Press WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders?… Continue reading
Oct 21 Mystery solved. ExoMars lander crashed, possibly exploded on the Red Planet By Alison Thoet The European Space Agency lost communication with the Schiaparelli lander soon after it entered the Martian atmosphere on Wednesday. On Friday, mission scientists revealed its fate. Continue reading
Oct 21 Internet struggles? It's not you. A colossal attack has crippled America's web address book By Nsikan Akpan Early Friday, Hackers struck the New Hampshire-based web company Dyn, which controls one of the cornerstones of U.S. internet infrastructure. Continue reading
Oct 21 7 reasons flesh-eating screwworms are as gross as you think By Nsikan Akpan, Courtney Norris As Florida's outbreak of flesh-eating screwworms continues to expand, here are 7 things you didn’t know about the parasites. Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch 9:26 Pay for carbon pollution? Why some environmentalists don't support this state tax By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 20 Ice detectives race against time as climate change destroys evidence of itself By Dhananjay Khadilkar, Scientific American Threatened glaciers store many of Earth’s fading prehistoric memories, including valuable temperature information about climate change… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch 6:43 Using sensors to spoon-feed crops with extreme precision By PBS News Hour To profitably produce corn in on Midwestern farms, nitrogen must be added to the soil. But the practice has an unwanted environmental impact: water contamination. A University of Nebraska professor thinks he may have a solution. Special correspondent Ariana Brocious… Continue watching