Jun 05 Koalas are treehuggers because it’s cool By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Koalas make coo-worthy photos when they cuddle up to Australia’s trees, where they live. But trees are more than shelter to the arboreal marsupials. Scientists recently learned that koalas use trees as their personal air conditioners. Continue reading
Jun 04 More than 300 species discovered in Southeast Asia By Justin Scuiletti A total of 367 new species have been discovered in Southeast Asia, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund. Continue reading
Jun 04 Gravitational waves discovery may flatline under new analysis By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy This spring scientists announced that they had found gravitational waves, the "smoking gun" evidence that the universe rapidly expanded in the trillionths of a second after the Big Bang. But new studies suggest that waves they found were just dust… Continue reading
Jun 04 Looks like there’s a party in deep space and Hubble’s got the photos By Jenny Marder If a tractor full of confetti was launched into the night sky and then beamed with a strobe light, it might look something like the Hubble Space Telescope image above. It is, according to NASA, among the most colorful of… Continue reading
Jun 03 Robotic dinosaur could outrun Usain Bolt By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Velociraptors, such as the ones as portrayed in “Jurassic Park," were vicious hunters known for their speed and agility. The ancient reptiles died out 75 million years ago, but their anatomy has inspired modern-day robotics. Continue reading
Jun 03 Harsh space winds diminish hopes for life on red-dwarf planets By Talia Mindich Space winds in the habitable zones of the most common star in the galaxy may be too severe to harbor life, a new study finds. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch New report suggests Earth on the brink of a great extinction By PBS News Hour According to new research published in the journal Science this week, plant and animal extinctions are happening at a rate one thousand times greater than before humans walked the Earth. Stuart Pimm of Duke University joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss… Continue watching
May 31 Watch Looking within the mind of a rampage killer By PBS News Hour What Science Can Tell Us About the Minds of Rampage Killers… Continue watching
May 29 Humans increased species extinction rate by 1,000 times, new study says By Justin Scuiletti Plant and animal extinctions are occurring at a rate of at least 1,000 times faster than the time before humans, a new study says. Continue reading
May 29 Why you should stop using one of the most popular security software By Ariel Min The widely used disk-encryption tool TrueCrypt made an announcement Wednesday that the system is insecure and therefore unsafe. This unforeseen statement shocked the crypto world, as TrueCrypt has been considered one of the most secure software. Continue reading