May 07 As species decline, so do the scientists who name them By Jenny Marder Quentin Wheeler’s career can be traced back to a fascination with pond scum. Now president of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wheeler was 8 when he first peered through a microscope and saw the single-celled organisms known as… Continue reading
May 06 Watch White House report warns how climate change will directly influence the lives of Americans By PBS News Hour In its most comprehensive report on climate change yet, the White House forecasts the likely, negative effects facing each of the eight regions in the U.S., from drought in the Southwest, to stronger storms in the Northeast. The administration is… Continue watching
May 06 Effects of climate change projected to worsen across the U.S., federal study finds By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Global warming is rapidly turning America the beautiful into America the stormy, sneezy and dangerous, according to a new federal scientific report. And those shining seas? Rising and costly, the report says. Climate change’s assorted harms “are expected… Continue reading
May 05 Feds fund research to create a climate-proof chicken By Joshua Barajas Researchers believe that the key to feeding a growing global population is a chicken that can take the heat. A team of scientists from the University of Delaware studied the genetic makeup of the African naked-neck chicken and whether its… Continue reading
May 05 Your next mixtape could hold more songs than tens of thousands of iPods combined By Justin Scuiletti Sony debuted a new tape format Sunday at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Germany that can hold 148 gigabytes of data per square inch; shattering a previous magnetic tape record of 29.5 gigabytes. If packed into a… Continue reading
May 02 Nanosponges soak up superbugs and even snake venom in your blood By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Drug-resistant bacteria are difficult to treat, even deadly. But instead of pummeling the bugs with drugs, what if you could soak them up with a sponge? That's what engineer Liangfang Zhang at the University of California San Diego is trying… Continue reading
May 02 Star cluster flung from distant galaxy at 2 million mph By Joshua Barajas Astronomers have discovered a cluster of several thousand stars that was ejected out of a distant galaxy at a stellar speed of more than two million miles per hour. The group of “runaway stars,” named HVGC-1 for “hypervelocity globular cluster,”… Continue reading
May 01 FDA-approved device treats sleep apnea in a new way By Sarah Corapi Loud snoring, sore throats, excessive drowsiness -- all common signs of a disorder called sleep apnea that affects an estimated 18 million Americans. For those who’ve yet to find a treatment that works for them, there may be hope… Continue reading
Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future By Frank Bi, Joshua Barajas In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Lab using RC cars to build a better autonomous vehicle By PBS News Hour Continue watching