Mar 20 100 Years Later, Retracing Shackleton’s Antarctic Trek EmbedVideo(6002, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan interviews Joanne Davies about her plans to trek across Antarctica and finish what Sir Ernest Shackleton started. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic, ill-fated and ultimately… Continue reading
Mar 20 Watch Recreating Shackleton’s Antarctic Journey NewsHour interviews Jo Davies about her Antarctic expedition. Continue watching
Mar 19 Discovering Higgs Boson: the Thrill and Drama of the Waiting Game This proton-proton collision event, from the CMS experiment at CERN, shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson. Photo by CERN. Following last week's major announcement at CERN, I finally had time to sit down and… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch Decision Delayed on Dangerous Chemical Found in Drinking Water Decision Delayed on Dangerous Chemical Found in Drinking Water… Continue watching
Mar 15 How to Get Chromium-6 Out of Your Water In the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays a scantily-clad file clerk in a small law firm who traces a cluster of health problems in a California desert town to a chemical in the groundwater there, and… Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch Scientists Search for Solution to ‘Toxic Cocktail’ in Washington’s Puget Sound Seattleites Construct Rain Gardens to Curb Pollution From Stormwater Runoff… Continue watching
Mar 14 Strong Signs of Higgs Discovery By Ray Suarez A representation of the innerworkings of the Atlas particle detector painted on one of the walls at the CERN campus in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images. New results from Geneva's Large Hadron Collider "strongly indicate" that scientists have… Continue reading
Mar 14 Geeking Out on Pi Day: For the Love of Pi and the Tao of Tau Young fans prepare for the Pi Procession at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, holding handmade signs with a digit in pi’s numerical sequence. Photo courtesy the Exploratorium. March 14 is Pi Day, the official celebration of the mathematical… Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Protecting Americans From Danger in the Drinking Water In part one of a two-part series Miles O’Brien travels to Hinkley, Calif., the town featured in the movie Erin Brockovich, for its multi-million battle over contaminated groundwater. O'Brien reports on the investigation into the chemical Chromium-6, the agency that… Continue watching
Mar 13 Who Gets Ownership of Your Digital Life When You Die? It's clear our lives have changed as a result of the technological revolution. What's not clear is what happens to our digital lives when we die. Five states currently have laws that govern digital assets, but they vary widely. Monday… Continue reading