Mar 27 Watch Cyber War Over Spam Slows Access for Internet Users What's Behind One of the Largest Cyber Attacks in Internet History?… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Songs in the Key of Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science Songs in the Key of Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science… Continue watching
Mar 27 School House Rapping With Wu-Tang Clan's GZA Legendary hip-hop artist raps about science in his new album and brings that message to schools. Upload your own science rap for a chance to win a shout-out from GZA. Details are below. NEW YORK -- In his… Continue reading
Mar 26 'The World Needs You, Badly,' Edward O. Wilson Tells Young Scientists Biologist Edward O. Wilson studies fire ants at Harvard University on Sept. 8, 1975. Photo by Hugh Patrick Brown/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Edward O. Wilson's "Letters to a Young Scientist" arrived in the mail this week. Continue reading
Mar 22 Big Bang Afterglow Reveals Older Universe, More Matter, Slower Expansion A new map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the precision by the Planck mission. Image by ESA and the Planck Collaboration. You may have seen this map, which has been making the rounds since… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Tennessee Is Home to U.S. Leader in Offering Fast, City-Wide Internet Tennessee Is Home to U.S. Leader in Offering Fast, City-Wide Internet… Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch Streaming Video Goes From Media 'Stepping Stone' to Major Player Streaming Video Goes From Media 'Stepping Stone' to Major Player… Continue watching
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