Jan 28 Medical study suggests little evidence that former athletes suffer neurological disease By Zachary Treu A study published this month in "Current Sports Medicine Reports" attempts to turn the current narrative about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) on its head. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch St. Paul's mayor reflects on added stresses of severe cold for families By Judy Woodruff, PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch The tortoise and the flare: Calif. solar power projects confront habitat impact By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch What's the future of privacy in a big data world? By PBS News Hour Technologies that track data can make life more efficient, but can they go too far? Jeffrey Brown talks to technology and privacy experts Jules Polonetsky and Adam Thierer for more on why corporations should avoid being "creepy" and why it's… Continue watching
Jan 23 There's a new supernova in the neighborhood By News Desk The astronomy world is abuzz with excitement over the birth of a new supernova in the relatively nearby galaxy known as M82. Continue reading
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
Jan 22 Watch California's drought could mean bad news at the grocery store By PBS News Hour Continue watching
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