Feb 26 Reporter turns in article about procrastination on time By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy We all procrastinate. We put things off we know we shouldn't - then scramble to get them done. But is it a fault of our environment? Or a trait for which we are hard-wired?… Continue reading
Feb 25 U.S. bees get $3 million By Sarah Sheffer The United States Department of Agriculture is set to provide $3 million for the nation’s ailing bees. Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD has hit the honey bee population hard since 2006, when scientists recognized that colonies were disappearing. Bees would… Continue reading
Feb 24 Crystal found in Australia confirmed as oldest known piece of the Earth By Justin Scuiletti At 4.4 billion years old, a tiny zircon crystal about twice the size of a human hair is the oldest known piece of the Earth's crust. Found on a sheep ranch in western Australia over a dozen years ago, the… Continue reading
Feb 24 Why are starfish dying off the Pacific Coast? The reporters who broke the story for NewsHour answered your questions By Colleen Shalby Along the Pacific Coast, tens of thousands of starfish are dying. No one knows why. In January, Earthfix reporter Katie Campbell and diver and citizen scientist Laura James reported on the story for PBS NewsHour. Campbell and James answered questions… Continue reading
Feb 22 Apple bug leaves devices vulnerable to hackers By Hari Sreenivasan, Kayla Ruble Vulnerable devices include the iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch, and iPad 2 and later. Security researchers found the bug also occurs on Mac OS X running on Apple laptops and desktops. Continue reading
Feb 21 Dogs have special ability to react to human speech, study shows By Robert Pursell A new study concludes that dogs' brains contain a vocal region that functions similarly to the region located in the temporal lobe of human brains. In addition, the researchers found that vocal emotional cues activated a similarly located non-primary auditory… Continue reading
Feb 20 How massive sloshing stars make fiery supernovas By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists believe they have finally captured what happens in the heart of a star before it explodes in a supernova. With the help of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), scientists mapped how shockwaves rip apart dying stars. Their… Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch out for falling ice By Justin Scuiletti As temperatures warm and the winter’s accumulation of snow and ice begin to thaw, danger lurks in the form of ice falling from skyscrapers onto unsuspecting pedestrians below. Continue reading
Feb 19 Physicist-turned-filmmaker captures seven years of ‘Particle Fever’ By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Theoretical physicist David Kaplan spent seven years filming the hunt for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. “Particle Fever” captures the sheer excitement the moments before the collider first turned on and the distress in the… Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch Seven years, 500 hours to capture ‘Particle Fever’ at the Large Hadron Collider By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching