Aug 02 Study: 'Footprint' of 2010 Gulf Oil Spill may be worse than thought By Xander Landen Penn State researchers recently found two partially dead deep sea coral reefs 22 kilometers east of the site of the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. Before these findings, biologists only knew of one reef that was damaged by the oil spill. Continue reading
Aug 01 The dangers that lurk within USB devices By Ariel Min USB devices, commonly used to copy, store and share data, have also been known as a prime place to carry malware, or malicious software, from one computer to another. But that’s not the end of the story: researchers argue that… Continue reading
Aug 01 Sleep study shows new moms are dangerously exhausted for months By Travis Daub Four months isn’t enough time for new moms to recover from the exhaustion of having a kid, a new study published in PLOSone reports. Continue reading
Aug 01 Firefighters get high tech to douse wildfires By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Using satellites, communication networks and weather sensors computer scientists have created WIFIRE, which analyzes burning wildfires and predicts where they will spread. Continue reading
Jul 31 Why the moon hits your eye like a big ... lemon? By Justin Scuiletti Scientists have finally made lemonade out of the origins of our lemon-shaped moon. While the moon may look, to quote crooner Dean Martin, like a big pizza pie -- the real shape is a bit more similar to a lemon. Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch asteroids pummel the Earth in its first 500 million years By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Earth got pretty beat up in its first 500 million years. Scientists recreated thousands of asteroid strikes over 4 billion years ago. Those asteroids shaped the planet's crust, and may have contributed to the rise of life on Earth. Continue reading
Jul 30 If there's an Ebola vaccine that works on monkeys, then what about humans? By Anna Christiansen Tuesday's death of Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor at the front lines of Sierra Leone’s battle against the worst Ebola outbreak in history, marks the latest person killed by the contagious, incurable disease that has devastated communities in Guinea, Liberia… Continue reading
Jul 29 Mars Rover sets extraterrestrial distance record By Andrew Troast NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has now traversed 25.01 miles on the surface of the Red Planet, setting a new record for off-Earth distance traveled. Continue reading
Jul 26 Solar 'superstorm' missed Earth in 2012 -- but another could strike By Xander Landen Two years ago, the worst solar storm in almost two centuries tore through Earth's orbit. Luckily, the storm's path just missed Earth. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Connecting strength and vulnerability of the creative brain By PBS News Hour Why have so many creative minds suffered from mental illness? Nancy Andreasen, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has devoted decades of study to the physical differences in the brains of writers and other highly… Continue watching