May 18 Watch Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino? By PBS News Hour Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic… Continue watching
May 17 International ad campaigns aim to reduce rhino horn demand By Connie Kargbo While park rangers are fighting the battle with poachers on the ground in South Africa, over the past few years ad campaigns by conservation groups have also been hitting airwaves and websites in consumer countries to discourage the consumption of… Continue reading
May 16 Recycled water in Arizona staves off drought By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The city of Tucson expects to use up its drinkable water by 2030. Civil engineers are redesigning the city's water system to recycle waste water to use every last drop. Continue reading
May 15 Teenage girl's 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on early Native American origins By Jenny Marder The skeletal remains of a 13,000-year-old teenage girl pulled from an underwater cave below Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula provides fossil evidence for a persistent, but mostly resolved question on the descendants of early Americans. Continue reading
May 14 Poking cells, solving mysteries and other reasons scientists love basic research By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists and engineers frequently seek solutions to specific problems. But the goal -- and challenge -- of basic research is to tackle broad questions without an immediate application in mind. As part of our ongoing series on the subject, PBS… Continue reading
May 13 Watch NewsHour asks: why do you choose basic research? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
May 13 Mysterious sea star disease makes its way to Oregon By Cassandra Profita, EarthFix The mysterious disease that has caused widespread sea star die-offs in Puget Sound is now killing dozens of sea stars off the Oregon Coast. Continue reading
May 13 500 years later, Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria likely found off coast of Haiti By Anya van Wagtendonk A leading underwater archaeologist says he has identified the shipwrecked remains of Christopher Columbus’ flagship off the northern coast of Haiti. Continue reading
May 12 Watch Ice sheet in Antarctica has melted past 'point of no return,' NASA says By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 12 University lectures are ineffective for learning, analysis finds By Travis Daub After nearly a thousand years, it might be time for universities to rethink how professors convey wisdom and information to their students, Science magazine reports. A meta-analysis of 225 studies published in PNAS found that the age-old practice… Continue reading