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
Mar 03 Recalling the early days of the World Wide Web By Bridget Shirvell In honor of the World Wide Web's 25th birthday we asked you to share your recollections of first using the internet. Here are some of your responses. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch Inside the slow and dangerous clean up of the Fukushima nuclear crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 28 Northern Lights make rare appearance By Lorna Baldwin People across the British Isles looked up at the night skies on Thursday and saw a rare sight -- the dancing, flickering lights of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. Continue reading
Feb 28 Teens take STEM reporting to the airwaves By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Teenagers in Oakland, Cali. are ready to go on the air with their STEM reporting. Youth Radio, a program underwritten by the National Science Foundation, is teaching high school students how to be in-depth reporters covering science and… Continue reading