Feb 13 DNA traces Native Americans' ancestry to Siberia By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The bones of a baby boy buried in Montana 12,600 years ago may help scientists confirm the origins of North and South America’s first peoples. The remains were discovered when a construction dig on the Anzick family property overturned a… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch From ballet shoes to human tissue, printing ideas into 3-D reality By PBS News Hour With the push of a button – plus a lot of design work and hours of waiting – the emerging technology of 3-D printing can produce food, plastic phone accessories, even human tissue. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores how businesses… Continue watching
Feb 12 Nuclear fusion as power source is one step closer to reality By Justin Scuiletti Nuclear fusion -- the process that occurs in the heart of stars to fuel them -- is now another step closer to being harnessed as a new source of energy. Continue reading
Feb 12 Science students, why did you choose basic research? By Bridget Shirvell We want to know more about why students who are focusing on basic research have made that decision. What about it excites you? Frustrates you?… Continue reading
Feb 12 The highest tech Cheez Whiz you've ever seen By Miles O'Brien 3-D printers will never serve up a rare juicy steak, a baked potato or the salad the “Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle” can, but before too long, they might be able to produce “Earl Grey tea – hot,” as the Replicator does for Captain… Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch Making privacy tools usable for the everyday internet user By Cindy Huang Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch In search of a cure, scientists look for where HIV hides By PBS News Hour While scientists and doctors have hopes of helping the 34 million people infected with HIV live disease-free, some basic questions remain about the virus, like where it hides in the human body. Special correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the latest… Continue watching
Feb 06 What Hawking meant when he said 'there are no black holes' By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Last week, Stephen Hawking declared "there are no black holes." What exactly that means has physicists scratching their heads. The problem is 40 years of paradoxes as scientists try to understand how black holes seem to break two rules of… Continue reading
Feb 05 Watch News Wrap: UN report details Syrian civil war child abuses By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, a U.N. report charges Syrian government forces have tortured children, while rebels have sometimes killed or recruited youths into their ranks. Meanwhile, in the Northeast and Midwest, a second winter storm in three days has… Continue watching