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
Mar 13 Erin Brockovich: The Real-Life Unhappy Ending By Miles O'Brien On tonight's NewsHour, Miles O'Brien reports on the decline of Hinkley, Calif., the town featured in the movie Erin Brockovich. Here's the not-so-Hollywood version of what really happened in Hinkley and beyond. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Erin Brockovich: The Real-Life Unhappy Ending Miles O'Brien looks at the continuing controversy over chromium 6 in Hinkley, California. Continue watching
Mar 13 Obama Continues Outreach to Hill As Poll Numbers Dip By Terence Burlij President Barack Obama arrives at Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats who are planning to unveil their budget blueprint this week. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Much has been made about President Barack Obama's stepped up outreach to… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine for Vital Medical Information Researchers Aim Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine for Vital Medical Information… Continue watching
Mar 12 How Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA? On tonight's PBS NewsHour, Correspondent Spencer Michels and I report on a massive, groundbreaking study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco, which one day may shed light on the genetic roots of health… Continue reading