Nov 05 Watch Discovery of Earth-size planets rouses search for intelligent life Discovery of Earth-size planets incites the search for intelligent life… Continue watching
Nov 04 NASA finds billions of Earth-like planets, but we won’t live there anytime soon .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Video by University of California… Continue reading
Nov 04 When clocks turn back, we gain an hour but what are we losing? Many of us are working our first Monday after the end of daylight saving time. Though we gained an extra hour during the "fall back" switchover of the clocks, do we end up losing elsewhere? Discovery News has… Continue reading
Nov 02 Rare hybrid solar eclipse to happen Sunday Some North American residents on the East Coast will be able to witness a rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 6:45 a.m. EST. A hybrid solar eclipse occurs when disks of the sun and moon… Continue reading
Nov 02 Can environmentalists and frackers be friends? EmbedVideo(7877, 514, 320); In an unlikely alliance, natural gas companies and environmentalists have decided to work together to make fracking safer. Rick Karr travels to Pennsylvania to explore the tensions this has created among environmental groups. Continue reading
Oct 31 Dogs get cues from other dogs’ wagging tails Photo by Flickr user Junayed Sadat Research has long shown that dogs communicate through their tails. A happy dog wags its tail more to the right, and an anxious one will favor its left. But new research, published Thursday in… Continue reading
Oct 30 Giant solar mirrors help Norwegian town see the light .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } When the winter months fall… Continue reading
Oct 29 How will coastal cities weather future superstorms? This week, PBS NewsHour Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reported on new technologies engineers are using to protect coastlines from rising waters. For an expanded look at how mussels could save New York, how 600-year-old windmills enabled the Dutch… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch What the lowlands can teach the U.S. about warding off high water What the lowlands can teach the U.S. about warding off high water… Continue watching
Oct 29 15 years ago today, John Glenn returned to space on STS95 PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien covered the event sitting next to broadcast news legend Walter Cronkite. 15 yrs ago today, my career peaked w/ #CNN coverage of launch of #STS95 - the great Walter Cronkite at… Continue reading