Mar 30 Watch How the biases in the back of your mind affect how you feel about race By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 30 Studies suggest that with age comes a willingness to trust By Laura Santhanam Despite what conventional wisdom may suggest, new research has revealed that people tend to be more willing to trust others as they age. Continue reading
Mar 28 Costa Rica utilities burned no fossil fuel in first 75 days of 2015 By Daniel Costa-Roberts Heavy rainfall in Costa Rica has caused a spike in hydroelectric production this year. Together with green energy from sources like geothermal, wind, solar and biomass, the power glut means the Central American country's energy utilities haven't needed to burn… Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch 5:48 Armor-like shark skin may offer blueprint for defense against superbugs By PBS News Hour Do sharks offer a key to fighting deadly bacteria? The White House unveiled a new campaign Friday to contain drug-resistant bacteria known as “superbugs,” and one of the unlikely resources that researchers are turning to is shark skin. Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Mar 27 Is a 600-hour pilot too green to be safe? By Miles O'Brien The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 offers yet another example of how the layers of safety in aviation have been peeled away since deregulation 35 years ago. Continue reading
Mar 26 Astronaut Scott Kelly to return to space for one year By Jenny Marder On Friday, 51-year-old astronaut Scott Kelly, who has flown three previous space missions, will return to the International Space Station, where he will remain for a year. A whole year. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch Designing disease-resistant robots for the front lines of the Ebola crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 25 Photo essay: DIY airplanes, submarines, Lamborghini and other homemade Chinese inventions By Laura Santhanam What do restaurants, gunpowder and paper money have in common? They were all invented in China. Continue reading
Mar 24 Scientists turn wastewood into high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavorings By Laura Santhanam Mahdi Abu-Omar’s high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavoring share one thing in common. They both were developed from wastewood. Continue reading
Mar 24 What a 500-year-old latrine teaches us about human migration and the spread of disease By Shehryar Nabi What was once a chute for both human and material waste in Jerusalem has now proven to be a store of new information about Christian migrants to the city, and the pathogens they brought with them. Continue reading