Sep 09 Do you have Caffeine Use Disorder? Photo by Flickr user @Doug88888 "More Research Urgently Needed on Caffeine" -- That's the energetic headline on the latest release from researchers at the Journal of Caffeine Research, who just published "Caffeine Use Disorder:… Continue reading
Sep 06 Touring the Tamar Gas Platform By Kristin Miller Israel’s recent discovery of huge offshore natural gas reserves could mean a profound transformation for the nation’s economy and for the region's political stability. A small Texas company named Noble Energy took on the challenge of getting the gas to… Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch Smart Devices That Make Life Easier May Also Be Easy To Hack, Says FTC Smart Devices That Make Life Easier May Also Be Easy To Hack, Says FTC… Continue watching
Sep 04 The Science of Surviving a Chemical Weapons Attack United Nations arms experts arrive to inspect a site suspected of being hit by a deadly chemical weapons attack last week on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus. Photo by Mohamed Abdullah/AFP/Getty Images. The deadly nerve gas Sarin… Continue reading
Sep 02 Nyad’s Feet Touch Sand, Swimmer Completes Historic 110-Mile Swim EmbedVideo(7278, 482, 304); Diana Nyad has reached Key West on the coast of Florida. You can watch the final leg of her swim here. Update: 6:30 p.m. ET Shortly before 2 p.m. ET, a sunburned and visibly… Continue reading
Aug 30 Why a Century of Fire Prevention Means Trouble for Yosemite’s Giant Sequoias PBS NewsHour producer Cat Wise and videographer Jason Lelchuk were among the first film crews allowed access to the Hetch Hetchy Dam, which is in the fireline of the massive Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Cat Wise. Continue reading
Aug 28 New Technology Demystifies Panda Pregnancies EmbedVideo(7249, 482, 304); Mei Xiang delivers a panda cub on August 23. Video by Smithsonian's National Zoo. On Friday afternoon, a live panda cam captured giant panda Mei Xiang at the moment her water broke, and two hours… Continue reading
Aug 26 Breaking Down ‘Breaking Bad’ Walter White demonstrates chemistry as "the study of change" in the pilot episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Photo by AMC's Breaking Bad. With "Breaking Bad's" return to the airwaves and approaching series finale, we can't help but pause… Continue reading
Aug 25 Graphene: The World’s New Wonder Material Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and Guardian columnist, joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about graphene, the world's new wonder material. The substance, as thin as an atom, is 200 times stronger than steel. Continue reading
Aug 22 Thousands of Earthlings Wave to Saturn People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission. The mission has assembled this collage from the shared images. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech. In… Continue reading