Nov 19 Voices From Superstorm Sandy A resident walks the debris filled beaches of Staten Island/ NewsHour photo by Brian Dentz NEW YORK -- Life on the shore is precarious for New Yorkers in the seaside neighborhoods of Breezy Point, Staten Island and Coney Island. Continue reading
Nov 19 SciDay: Climate Report So Bad That Future Is ‘Hard to Describe’ A major new report by the World Bank predicts devastating malnutrition from depleted crop yields and rising seawater causing damaging floods with the poorest nations at the most risk if temperatures warm by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Can Sleep Make You Smarter? The Power of Sleep: Why Humans Can't Stop Snoozing… Continue watching
Nov 15 Attorney General Holder Announces Legal Resolution to BP Oil Spill EmbedVideo(4984, 482, 304); BP has agreed to plead guilty to 14 federal criminal counts related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and the subsequent oil spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico for months and… Continue reading
Nov 15 Gulf Oil Spill: a Timeline of NewsHour Coverage By PBS News Hour Since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and set off a gigantic environmental disaster, NewsHour journalists have hosted dozens of discussions and filed scores of stories to help shed light on the causes and fallout… Continue reading
Nov 15 ‘I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’ … And Other Myths How much sleep do we need? Can we cram the proverbial eight hours into six? Miles O'Brien will tackle these questions on tonight's NewsHour broadcast. But first, we take you behind the scenes and into the water for today's Science… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch "I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead"…And Other Myths Hari interviews Miles on the science of sleep. Continue watching
Nov 13 China’s New Leaders Face Growing Concerns From Chinese Eaters As the country strains to meet its growing food needs, Chinese consumers insist that the government not cut corners. Continue reading
Nov 12 Hubble Reveals Star Cluster’s Curious Insides NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers this view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. Image by ESA/Hubble & NASA. Update: 1:40 p.m. ET | The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this dazzling image of a far flung star… Continue reading