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
Jul 14 Tomorrow's image of Pluto will be 10 times sharper than this image below By Jenny Marder As the world awaits data from Pluto, NASA has released this most detailed image yet, which shows a stunning heart-shaped featured on the Pluto's surface. New Horizon's zipped by Pluto just before 8 am ET this morning. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 8:36 Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside By PBS News Hour Video conferencing technology can now connect patients and physicians almost instantaneously, offering convenience, efficiency and savings. But what happens to the doctor-patient relationship if you're never in the same room? Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
Jul 10 There's a story living in your beer's DNA By Catherine Woods Dash Masland has a British fungus hanging on her wall. The fungus, framed in a picture, is beer yeast and the main ingredient in the farmhouse-style beer brewed in her Maine-based microbrewery. It is also her muse. The marine… Continue reading
Jul 09 Biologists manufacture bacteria that may one day treat an unhealthy stomach By Catherine Woods Scientists altered the DNA of a common gut bacteria, Bacteroides Thetaiotaomicron to treat an unhealthy stomach and make poop glow. Continue reading
Jul 08 The ant, the butterfly and their chemical warfare with an oregano plant By Nsikan Akpan When pushed to the brink by ant invaders, oregano uses chemical warfare to call in butterfly reinforcements. Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 7:36 To study Earth's most extreme environment, researchers wire up an undersea volcano By PBS News Hour Hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, there's an undersea volcano known as Axial Seamount. Two months ago when it began spewing lava, it wasn't a secret to a group of scientists engaged in a groundbreaking research… Continue watching
Jul 07 Male spider genitals have some nerve By Nsikan Akpan A new study shows that male spider genitals have nerve cells and might feel. Continue reading
Jul 06 Mission to Pluto hits a speed bump, but resumes its stride By Kate Tobin Two days after briefly losing communication with the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped toward the dwarf planet Pluto, the probe’s operators say they understand the root cause of what happened and have taken steps to resume full operations. Continue reading