Mar 13 Browse the early days of the internet with these GIFs By Laura Santhanam March 15 marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the .com domain suffix, or dotcom. In the early days, companies acquired their own dotcoms and developed a marketing presence on the Internet. Check out a few of these initial… Continue reading
Mar 12 Large Hadron Collider gears up to find dark matter, new particles in its second run By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy After two years of upgrades and repairs, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland fires up again this month. This time it’s moving at twice the energy, looking for dark matter and exotic new particles. Continue reading
Mar 11 How the itsy bitsy spider evolved from a giant prehistoric sea creature By Jenny Marder It’s hard to believe that a prehistoric sea creature the size of Shaquille O’Neal could teach us anything about a modern dust mite. But a 7-foot-long, 480-million-year-old marine animal called an anomalocaridid is an ancestor to modern arthropods , the… Continue reading
Mar 11 How a hospital withstood a 9.0 quake with nary a broken window By Ed Jahn, Oregon Public Broadcasting Within an hour of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated central Japan in 2011, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital was accepting patients and acting as a refuge for throngs of survivors who’d lost everything. No broken windows. No collapsed ceilings. No… Continue reading
Mar 10 Before CNN tells Miles O’Brien’s story, watch his 3 reports on bionic arms By Jenny Marder Tonight, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta will host a documentary about our science correspondent, Miles O’Brien, and the days and months that followed the freak accident that took his left arm — and nearly his life. Continue reading
Mar 09 How not to raise a narcissist By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Think telling your children they're special will help them reach higher, work harder and bravely pursue their dreams? Maybe. But you might also be making them narcissists. Continue reading
Mar 09 Florida environmental officials banned from using the term ‘climate change’ By Anna Sillers In Florida, a state that environmental scientists have agreed would be hit hard by extreme changes in climate, is not allowed to speak about these changes. At least, not by members of the Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, the state… Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch 4:08 What two discoveries suggest about life in the solar system By PBS News Hour Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss two space stories that center around the search for life and how it began. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, which scientists believe shows signs of… Continue watching
Mar 06 Timeline: Dawn spacecraft glides into orbit of dwarf planet Ceres By Joshua Barajas and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy After spending nearly eight years floating through deep space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft finally reached its destination Friday, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt called Ceres. Continue reading
Mar 04 If you avoid these 3 risk factors, scientists can count how many healthy years you’ll add By Laura Santhanam For the first time, scientists have quantified how many heart failure-free years you add to your life if you avoid risky habits that harm your body and contribute to chronic illness. Continue reading