Jan 22 Watch 2:50 Calif. calls for water conservation in response to record drought By PBS News Hour, Jeffrey Brown A dry spell that has been building for three years has become a full-on emergency in California. Gov. Jerry Brown called it the worst drought on record and has asked everyone across the state to conserve water. Jeffrey Brown reports… Continue watching
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Jan 22 What a glowing green worm can teach us about our immune systems By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Dennis Kim, associate professor of biology at MIT, spends his days carefully raising worms that are no bigger than a comma. The students in his lab feed them, watching them grow and multiply on petri dishes that sit in a… Continue reading
Jan 22 Amazon plans to ship packages before you buy them By News Desk In December, Amazon announced plans to ship your bought items via drone. But, by the looks of a new patent, that plan fast might not be fast enough for the world’s largest online retailer. Now, they are planning to… Continue reading
Jan 20 Why basic scientific research matters By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy On the NewsHour Monday, science correspondent Miles O’Brien took a tour of SNOLab, the underground physics laboratory, about 250 miles north of Toronto, that is trying to answer one of the great mysteries of the universe: what is… Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Scientists search for understanding of dark matter By Miles O'Brien, PBS News Hour At the bottom of a nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, scientists at one of the world's most sophisticated particle physics observatories are investigating one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark matter? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien helps… Continue watching
Jan 20 Watch Can the tech industry strike the privacy, safety balance? By Gwen Ifill, PBS News Hour Even before President Obama outlined his proposed changes in how the NSA should collect data for surveillance, many tech giants were vocal in their criticism. Gwen Ifill discusses what's at stake with Christian Dawson of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition and… Continue watching
Jan 18 Which countries are competing in the modern-day space race? By News Desk On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, Hari Sreenivasan reports from Bangalore on India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, a great point of national pride. The global “space race” may have ended with the Cold War, but competition remains between a variety of nations… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch Is India’s space program worth the money? By PBS News Hour India's Mars Orbiter Mission is a point of great national pride. It will be completed for just over $70 million, a tiny fraction of the cost spent by NASA on similar programs. But is spending any resources on a mission… Continue watching
Jan 17 Which bears took home Giant Panda Zoo Awards? By Zachary Treu Giant pandas bond at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo. Photo by Ann Batdorf/Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Pandas and advocates for the animal from all over the world were honored at the Giant Panda Zoo Awards ceremony Friday morning at… Continue reading