Jan 27 Google artificial intelligence beats champion at world's most complicated board game By Nsikan Akpan Go is considered the most complicated game in human history. Google has now built an artificial intelligence program that can beat a professional player. Continue reading
Jan 27 7 DIY experiments you and rapper B.o.B can do to prove Earth is round By Nsikan Akpan Because apparently it’s still an open debate...?… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch 7:25 Hunt for gold in Washington's waterways dredges up conflict By PBS News Hour Gold fever is alive in the mountains of Washington state, but the use of new machinery in waterways is causing conflict with activists. Local fishermen are pushing for regulations on hydraulic dredging, a method that boosts the efficacy of small-scale… Continue watching
Jan 25 New mutant monkeys model the inheritance of autism By Nsikan Akpan These genetically modified monkeys exhibit some of the social deficits and anxiety behaviors observed in human autism and may help uncover new therapies. Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch 6:43 We can't see this possible 9th planet, but we feel its presence By PBS News Hour Most of us grew up thinking there were nine planets in the solar system, but that changed when Pluto got downgraded in 2006. Now there's news that there might be a ninth planet after all. Researchers have found evidence of… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch 4:52 Inside the fight to save the bananas we know (and love) By PBS News Hour A deadly fungus, known as Panama disease, is decimating banana plantations around the world and threatens to wipe out the most common species, the Cavendish banana. Scientists in Honduras are working to create a resistant banana before the disease hits… Continue watching
Jan 20 A giant, unknown planet might exist in our outer solar system By News Desk Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday they’d found evidence for a massive, faraway planet. If true, it would constitute the ninth planet in our solar system, an honor once bestowed on Pluto. They’ve nicknamed the new… Continue reading
Jan 18 California natural gas leak just one of thousands across country By Elisabeth Ponsot Experts estimate there are thousands of methane leaks across the U.S., compounding the nation’s greenhouse gas inventory and foisting political pressure onto federal regulators to deal with the global warming contributor. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch 1:53 New titanosaur discovery exhibits state-of-the-art paleontology By PBS News Hour Starting this weekend, visitors to New York's American Museum of Natural History can get close up view of what scientists believe may be the biggest creature to have ever walked the earth. The discovery represents huge gains for modern paleontology. Continue watching
Jan 16 Massive titanosaur, biggest dinosaur ever found, squeezes into Museum of Natural History By Andrew Mach The biggest creature to ever walk the surface of the earth invaded New York City’s American Museum of Natural History on Friday—a dinosaur species so new that it hasn’t even been named, with a skeleton so big that it doesn’t… Continue reading