May 07 Inspiring Science With Frozen Roadkill and Harvested Whale Bones Spencer Michels interviewed Dan Sudran from San Francisco's Mission Science Workshop, who uses unlikely objects in an unlikely place to inspire kids about science. When San Francisco's newly constructed Exploratorium opened this spring on a pier sticking… Continue reading
May 07 Solar Powered Plane Soars Slower Than a Subaru A member of the Solar Impulse crew rides an electric bike alongside the solar-powered plane as it lifts off from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., on May 3, on the first leg of a… Continue reading
May 06 Watch In Poland, Pursuing Valuable Energy Deep in the Earth Fuels Dissent Above Ground In Poland, Pursuing Valuable Energy Deep in the Earth Fuels Dissent Above Ground… Continue watching
May 06 News Flash: EPA Now Accountable to Public EmbedVideo(5947, 482, 304); This is the first of two PBS NewsHour reports on hexavalent chromium, a chemical found in U.S. drinking water and the agency charged with regulating it. This report aired on March 13. There is… Continue reading
May 03 The Latest Buzz on Honeybee Colony Collapse Honeybee colonies are dying at a rate of 30 percent a year, according to a new government report. Photo by Flickr Creative Commons/ Cygnus921. Update: 4:30 p.m. ET | A new government report on the decline of honeybee colonies… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Google’s Schmidt and Cohen Discuss Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Future Google's Schmidt and Cohen Discuss Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Future… Continue watching
May 02 How Connecting 7 Billion to the Web Will Transform the World EmbedVideo(6360, 482, 304); Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen call the Internet "the world's largest ungoverned space," a space that is increasingly growing. The tech moguls outline their vision of a world universally connected to the Internet… Continue reading
May 01 Conflict of Lease and Legacy Provokes Controversy on the Half Shell Harvesting oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co. in the Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. Photo by Spencer Michels. "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" -- Lewis Carroll Not since Lewis Carroll wrote "The Walrus… Continue reading
Apr 30 Steady Stream of Space Debris Rains Down on Earth Low Earth Orbit is the region of space within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. It is the most concentrated area for orbital debris. Photo by NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. Update: May 1 | On a January… Continue reading
Apr 25 Space Junk Threatens Cascade of Collisions The sheer amount of debris in low-Earth orbit is tipping space dangerously close to a cascade of hazardous collisions, scientists announced at a four-day international meeting on the subject this week. And there is an "urgent need" to… Continue reading