Apr 08 Using 'gooey' caps and Bluetooth to keep Parkinson's patients moving By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy For Parkinson’s sufferers, the connection between the brain and the body breaks down. The disease causes nerve cells to die, which leads to rigid movement and tremors. With the help of computer technology and the brain’s ability to rewire itself,… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Researchers track New Hampshire moose in hopes of pinpointing cause of population decline By PBS News Hour In some regions of northern New England, the moose population is down as much 40 percent in the last three years. The cause of this iconic animal’s dramatic die-off is not yet known, but researchers’ main theory is centered on… Continue watching
Apr 07 This is your brain on movies By Willis Raburu Nothing makes a room full of strangers feel united quite like a movie. Now, science is trying to prove that you’re a lot more similar to your fellow popcorn eaters than you might think. Continue reading
Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier By Margaret Myers Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… Continue reading
Apr 06 NASA sets solar flare images to music By News Desk NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare… Continue reading
Apr 03 Potentially lifesaving national landslide maps are 30 years out of date By Tony Schick, Earthfix The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn't use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn't render the maps with the high-powered geographic software near-universally… Continue reading
Apr 03 NASA halts engagement with Russia in response to 'violation of Ukraine's sovereignty' By Ellen Rolfes NASA announced Wednesday that it is halting almost all of its activities and contact with Russia. Continue reading
Apr 02 Is pot getting more potent? By William Brangham The average potency of pot has more than tripled in the past two decades, according to testing done for the federal government. This comes just over a year after Colorado and Washington legalized the drug and as many other states… Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Amsterdam cafe owner compares pot potency to liquor By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching