Aug 06 Watch How Rosetta can help decipher a comet's secrets By PBS News Hour After a 10-year journey, the space probe Rosetta is orbiting a comet. The spacecraft is slated to follow the comet for more than a year on its way toward the sun. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Mark McCaughrean, senior scientific advisor… Continue watching
Aug 06 Miles O'Brien returns to the site of Japan's nuclear disaster three years later By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake shook Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster. Since then, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien has provided some of the most in-depth reporting on the subject to-date. He has traveled… Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch Return to Fukushima with Miles O'Brien By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Aug 06 Rosetta spacecraft's first images of comet By Larisa Epatko After a 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe reached its final destination on Wednesday: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Continue reading
Aug 06 How to reuse cigarette filters to store energy By News Desk Collect those discarded cigarette butts. South Korean researchers have found a way to convert the used filters into a material that can be used to store energy. Continue reading
Aug 05 How tiny ripples can reconstruct sound By Colleen Shalby An experiment called “The Visual Microphone” aims to “recover sounds from highspeed footage of a variety of objects with different properties."… Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch How weather and nutrient pollution create fertile conditions for toxic algae blooms By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 04 Playing a small amount of video games daily may 'level up' adjustment in children By Justin Scuiletti Parents take note: letting your children finish that one last video game level before they start their homework may have its benefits. Continue reading
Aug 03 Hear from the scientists who saw the Ohio algae blooms coming By Hari Sreenivasan For a second day, residents of Toledo, Ohio, are not able to drink water flowing from their taps. The water is unsafe because of an algae bloom in Lake Erie, which is affecting the city and… Continue reading
Aug 03 Following 'Rim Fire,' what should be done with the trees left behind? By Xander Landen A year after a California wildfire known as the "Rim Fire" burnt through over 250,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests, environmentalists and loggers are debating what to do with the blackened woodland it left behind. The timber industry believes… Continue reading