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
Feb 05 Enhanced hearing in adult 'blind' mice provides future hope for human sensory enhancements By Justin Scuiletti A new study shows that the brains of adult mice could be rewired after the rodents received temporary vision loss. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch New media models disrupt traditional journalism By PBS News Hour A slew of made-for-Web news sites are increasingly undermining the platform of print media. In this shifting landscape, how will journalism and storytelling survive, and what are readers to gain? Judy Woodruff talks to Re/code’s Walt Mossberg, VOX Media’s Jim… Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch 'Talking cars' could prevent accidents before they happen By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 03 Greenland glacier hits record speeds By Justin Scuiletti Traveling just over 6 mph would hardly break any speed record. But for a glacier, it is a pace that is considered unprecedented. In fact, the summer speed of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier, according to a new study published by… Continue reading
Feb 03 Even at an early age, women underrepresented in tech By Sarah Sheffer Silicon Valley business woman Sheryl Sandberg has popularized a movement to get professional women to “lean in” and fight for their positions at the top of their fields. With no female equivalent of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates in tech,… Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch Mysterious epidemic devastates starfish population off the Pacific Coast By PBS News Hour Up and down the Pacific Coast, starfish are dying by the tens of thousands and no one knows why. Special correspondent Katie Campbell reports from Seattle on how researchers and citizen scientists are investigating the spread of the mysterious and… Continue watching