Dec 17 A Dramatic End for the Twin Moon Spacecraft This artist's concept shows one of the GRAIL satellites inserting itself into orbit. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech. The twin GRAIL robots, the washing-machine sized satellites that have been zipping around the moon for nearly a year, will end their… Continue reading
Dec 17 Food for 9 Billion: Four Steps Toward a Climate-Friendly Diet In the next installment of the "Food for 9 Billion" series airing Monday on American Public Media's "Marketplace", Jon Miller of Homelands Productions visits Baltimore to explore how food producers are dealing with climate change and… Continue reading
Dec 17 Making an Environmentally Friendly Meal By Larisa Epatko Some Baltimore-based researchers and chefs are looking into how people's diets can be more environmentally friendly. Continue reading
Dec 14 Meteor Shower Told in Tweets Israelis in a hot water spring on the shore of the Dead Sea near the Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Gedi watch the sky for Geminid meteor streaks above the Judean desert on December 14, 2012. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Scientists Say Bottoms Up to Find the Connection Between Genes and Addiction Scientists Say Bottoms Up to Find the Connection Between Genes and Addiction… Continue watching
Dec 13 Avoiding Addiction When It’s in Your DNA To understand more about the link between addiction and genes, science correspondent Miles O'Brien drinks a mixture of 30 grams of pure ethanol and Diet Coke, the equivalent of three stiff drinks, and undergoes a series of tests. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Dr. Thomas Kosten on the Cocaine Vaccine video interview with lab broll… Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch Miles O’Brien Raises a Glass for Science Video of Miles O'Brien participating in alcohol study at University California San Diego… Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch Science and Politics Behind North Korea’s Long-Range Missile Test Science and Politics Behind North Korea's Long-Range Missile Test… Continue watching
Dec 12 In Cosmic Game of Billiards, What Are the Chances of an Asteroid Collision? This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. There's been buzz in the news this week about two asteroids nearly sideswiping us. Boston Globe… Continue reading