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
Aug 21 Tatooine, Vulcan and Other Incredible Planets NASA’s Kepler Found Beyond Earth Artist's rendition of the Kepler telescope. Courtesy: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel Last week, scientists announced that after four years of surveying a strip of the Milky Way galaxy, the Kepler Space Telescope would officially go offline, due to a… Continue reading
Aug 20 Transforming Data With Whimsical and Practical Inventions at Ingenuity EmbedVideo(7189, 482, 304); Editor's note | Starting Sept. 7, the PBS NewsHour is expanding its family, adding a "PBS NewsHour Weekend" newscast on Saturdays and Sundays. The 30-minute show will be anchored by NewsHour senior correspondent… Continue reading
Aug 20 China May Have New Shipping Shortcut Thanks to Melting Arctic Ice By Elizabeth Shell The Chinese commercial cargo ship Yong Sheng makes its way from east Asia to western Europe through the new northern "shortcut" above Russia. The Northeast Passage is made possible for a few weeks to months this summer due to melting… Continue reading
Aug 19 Watch Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High With Asteroid Capture Mission Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High in Asteroid Capture Mission… Continue watching