Jun 09 16 animal selfies that capture life in the Serengeti By Catherine Woods Researchers set up 225 cameras across more than 400 square miles of the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania. The cameras captured it all from monkey selfies to a gazelle family portrait. Continue reading
Jun 08 Injectable nanoscopic mesh could one day be used to monitor our organs By Nsikan Akpan This electronic mesh might one day tell doctors when your brain needs a tuneup. Continue reading
Jun 05 Inside the $105 million lab that wants to wipe out MERS and Ebola By Nsikan Akpan How did one patient in South Korea instigate the largest MERS outbreak to-date outside of the Middle East?… Continue reading
Jun 05 Watch 9:51 Why isn’t there a better test to detect Ebola? By PBS News Hour In Sierra Leone, health care workers use infrared thermometers to monitor those who may have come in contact with Ebola. It takes 21 days before they can be deemed virus-free. That’s why researchers are trying to create more precise infection… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch 8:33 To crack Ebola’s code, scientists search for elusive animal host By PBS News Hour The deadly Ebola virus normally spreads among animals but occasionally spills over to humans, to dire effect. To understand how such diseases make that jump, scientists must find the animal host. But the hunt for live samples of Ebola in… Continue watching
Jun 04 What it’s like to cover the Ebola crisis as a dad By Cameron Hickey After I learned that I would be traveling to West Africa to cover the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak with Miles O’Brien, I spent a lot of time thinking about and preparing for the trip: what cameras to bring, what… Continue reading
Jun 03 What scientists still don’t know about Ebola might surprise you By P. J. Tobia Ebola has taken the lives of 11,000 people and sickened another 26,000. But scientists know less than you might think about the origins of the virus or how it made its leap to humans. Continue reading
Jun 03 Why is there a huge methane hotspot in the American Southwest? By Laura Santhanam A team of scientists scrambles to better understand a gigantic cloud of methane looming over the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. This single cloud is believed to comprise nearly 10 percent of all methane emissions derived from natural… Continue reading
Jun 02 ‘No more raw bananas!’ Study finds chimps would actually prefer flambé By Nsikan Akpan Chimpanzees possess some of the mental skills needed for cooking. Continue reading
Jun 02 Video: First 3-D bird fossil of South America discovered in Brazil By Nsikan Akpan Paleontologists have stumbled upon a bird fossil in Brazil that is so well preserved its long tail feathers have possibly retained their original color and spots. Continue reading