Jul 11 How math is growing more strawberries in California By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Growing strawberries takes water, sunshine, soil...and math. Mathematicians are helping farmers in the Parajo Valley grow more berries using less water with the power of numbers. Continue reading
Jul 10 Russian physicist brothers plan to resurrect Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The 20th century visionary competed with Thomas Edison and had a long list of inventions to his name: the Tesla coil, alternating current electricity, an electric motor, radio, X-rays and envisioning of the first smartphone technology in 1901. Continue reading
Jul 09 Walk this way: Scientists recreate 410 million-year-old spider crawl By Justin Scuiletti Fossil records have allowed scientists to unlock a 410 million-year-old secret: the way an ancient arachnid crawled around. Continue reading
Jul 09 Student science journalists tackle concussions, climate change and teaching physics By Matt Ehrichs We asked young journalists in our Student Reporting Labs to find out how science affected their communities. They found fellow student athletes coping with the pain of multiple concussions, inspirational physics teachers who launch eggs with lighter fluid and citizen… Continue reading
Jul 08 Scientific journal Nature retracts controversial stem cell papers By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Last week, the scientific journal Nature retracted two papers which claimed that skin cells could be turned into stem cells. Continue reading
Jul 07 Neuroscientists protest Human Brain Project By Ariel Min More than 100 leading neuroscientists protested European commission-funded Human Brain Project in an open letter Monday, criticizing that the $1.6 billion project to stimulate human brain will waste money and harm neuroscience. Continue reading
Jul 06 Indonesia reaches highest deforestation rate in the world By Xander Landen Indonesia has the highest deforestation rate in the world, according to a study published in the journal "Nature Climate Change" in June. Continue reading
Jul 05 Virus kills 100,000 pigs and piglets each week, drives up pork prices By Xander Landen Although the disease is being studied, scientists are still unsure about how PEDv spreads, or how it originated. Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Take a tour of mission leader Fabien Cousteau’s underwater lab By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 03 Hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma linked to injection wells By Jenny Marder Scientists are increasingly linking hundreds of earthquakes near Jones, Oklahoma to wastewater wells used in fracking operations. Continue reading