Jul 19 Consumer drones interfere with CA firefighting efforts By Kenzi Abou-Sabe In the past month alone, drones have gotten in the way of firefighters in San Bernadino County, the Plumas National Forest and, most recently, a busy highway that connects Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch 7:45 How studying insects may lead to smarter drones By PBS News Hour When you watch an insect fly in slow motion, you get a whole new perspective on the complexity of movement and engineering. A new collaborative research project, funded by the U.S. Air Force, is devoted to studying how insects and… Continue watching
Jul 17 Nepal gets a piece of Pluto plus four new surprises from New Horizons By Nsikan Akpan Gas tails and Nepalese landmarks are just some of the latest updates from NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. Continue reading
Jul 17 Fancy fabrics trap dangerous gases By Catherine Woods Researchers bring smart technology to cotton wearables. Continue reading
Jul 17 Velociraptor cousin looked like 'big fluffy bird from hell' By Justin Scuiletti This summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World” ruffled the feathers of many a paleontologist when the movie’s depiction of several dinosaurs, namely the ferocious Velociraptor, lacked, well, feathers. Continue reading
Jul 16 Here's why human screams make your skin crawl By Nsikan Akpan Neuroscientists unlock what happens to our brains and behavior when we hear a scream. Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch 6:15 Welcome to Pluto, where you'll find mountains the size of the Rockies By PBS News Hour Today, NASA released the first ever close-up photographs of Pluto. The images showed icy mountains and a mysterious pale patch shaped like a heart. Judy Woodruff speaks to science correspondent Miles O’Brien about what we have learned about Pluto so… Continue watching
Jul 15 Scientists discover brain cells that specialize in speed By Catherine Woods Neuroscientists find speedometers in the brain using a "Flintstone-like" car. Continue reading
Jul 15 Earth, meet Pluto By Jenny Marder After nine years, 3 billion miles and then 31 long hours after yesterday's historic flyby, the first richly detailed image of Pluto has been released. And it's gorgeous. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch 8:51 Pluto, underdog of the solar system, finally gets its day By PBS News Hour Soon, some of the mystery surrounding Pluto, the distant dwarf planet, will be lifted. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, speeding through space for almost a decade on a mission to capture a myriad of data, is believed to have finally made… Continue watching