Mar 12 Ancient tree rings suggest good weather helped Genghis Khan build his empire By Sarah Sheffer New research suggests that Genghis Khan, one of the greatest conquerors in all of history, may have been given an advantage by Mother Nature. Continue reading
Mar 11 15 predictions for the future of the Internet By Bridget Shirvell What is the future of the Internet? Here are 15 predictions from the newly released Digital Life at 2025 survey. Continue reading
Mar 10 An elephant never forgets (a voice) By Justin Scuiletti Elephants may be listening closer than you think. A new study released Monday from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that not only can wild elephants distinguish between different human languages, but they can also differentiate between… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch Unlikely partners work to make fracking safer By PBS News Hour In an unlikely alliance, natural gas companies and environmentalists have decided to work together to make fracking safer. Rick Karr travels to Pennsylvania to explore the tensions this has created among environmental groups. Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien on moving forward after an accident led to amputation By PBS News Hour Miles O'Brien has traveled the world for the NewsHour, often to dangerous places, such as his recent trip to the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Last month, an injury during another reporting trip in the Philippines became life-threatening and… Continue watching
Mar 07 Advanced physics lab shuns PowerPoint, embraces the white board By Anya van Wagtendonk With so much technological innovation going on across Fermilab's campus, one might be surprised to walk into one of lab's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Physics Center forums and see presenters using nothing more than a whiteboard and colored marker --… Continue reading
Mar 06 The great white shark Lydia and her historic journey across the Atlantic By Talia Mindich A satellite-tagged great white shark named Lydia is on the verge of making history as the first of her species to be seen crossing the Atlantic. As of Thursday morning, the 4.4 meter-long female was swimming above the mid-Atlantic ridge… Continue reading
Mar 06 Without these ancient cells, you wouldn’t be here By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Without the "billion billion billion" Prochlorococcus, a plant-like bacteria in the ocean, Earth would not have the oxygen we breathe today. But the more scientists study about these diverse organisms, the less they know, says Penny Chisholm, an oceanographer at… Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch Fishing for data in the radioactive waters off Fukushima By PBS News Hour With help from fisherman and citizen scientists, researchers in Japan and the U.S. are tracking the nucleotides in the ocean creatures who swim in the plume of water tainted with radiation from Fukushima. Their research is part of a long-term… Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch Basic research uncovers the ‘invisible pasture of the sea’ that brought Earth to life By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching