Nov 12 Chinese hackers breach U.S. weather system By Justin Scuiletti A recent breach by Chinese hackers gave the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a reason to feel under the weather. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that hackers in China breached the United States’ weather network in late September through… Continue reading
Nov 12 Speaking two languages is better for your brain than Sudoku By Anna Christiansen The mental workout of constantly balancing two competing vocabularies makes it easier for bilinguals to process information, according to a new study published in Brain and Language on Wednesday. Continue reading
Nov 12 Philae lander successfully touches down on comet in historic cosmic achievement By Sarah Corapi After months of orbiting its target, the Rosetta spacecraft is finally ready to fulfill its mission: landing a probe on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Continue reading
Nov 10 Watch Mexico City faces growing water crisis By PBS News Hour Mexico City, home to an inefficient and inconvenient water delivery system, struggles to meet the pressing demands of its 22 million residents. Some have turned to harvesting rainwater, which has its own set of limitations. Special correspondent Fred de Sam… Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch ALMA telescope spots birth of a planet in ‘milestone’ discovery By PBS News Hour Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, astronomers were able to capture the formation of a new planet, and scientists are observing it happen more clearly than ever before. Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch Inventor John Steinbaugh’s next big idea? Goggles that would check for vital signs By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 07 Google launches service to store and share human DNA in the cloud By Justin Scuiletti It turns out that a human genome -- the complete set of genetic material encoded as DNA sequences -- is 100 gigabytes. Continue reading
Nov 05 The 14-step process to putting on an Ebola protective suit By Megan Thompson Treating someone with Ebola involves a painstaking process of suiting up and peeling off protective gear, or in hospital speak, “donning and doffing.” Last month, after two Dallas nurses became infected after caring for an Ebola patient, the CDC revised… Continue reading
Nov 04 Global physics research giant CERN selects first woman to lead By Corinne Segal Fabiola Gianotti has been selected to lead CERN, the international physics research center which discovered the Higgs boson or the "God particle". She is the first woman to direct the organization. Continue reading