Oct 25 How Grandmothers Gave Us Longer Lives Photo by Susan Smith via Flickr. Humans may have developed our long life spans as a result of nature's first babysitters: grandmothers. A new study published in the Proceedings of Royal Society B on Wednesday uses a… Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch Climate of Doubt Interview with John Hockenberry video two way newsroom interview John Hockenberry Frontline climate change… Continue watching
Oct 23 Seismologists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing to Predict Earthquake Seven people -- six Italian seismologists and a government official -- were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for failing to warn people of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that killed more than… Continue reading
Oct 23 ‘Climate of Doubt’ Examines Politics vs. Climate Change By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // In the race to the White House this year, candidates have gone head-to-head on health care, the economy and foreign policy. But there is one issue that has been absent from all the debates -- climate change. On… Continue reading
Oct 19 Absorbent Nanomaterial Cleans up Toxic Water While researching ways to detect explosives at airports, Paul Edmiston, a chemist with the College of Wooster, made an unexpected discovery: a new spongelike material he calls "Osorb." The material soaks up oil and other contaminants from… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch Could the U.S. Face ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’? Protecting Banks from Hacker Attacks Could the U.S. Face 'Cyber Pearl Harbor'? Protecting Banks from Hacker Attacks… Continue watching
Oct 18 NOAA Predicts Warmer, Drier Winter for the United States By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy On Thursday, after nine months of record-breaking high temperatures and a scorching drought, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced their prediction that the winter of 2012/2013 is likely to follow the same trend. This year could… Continue reading
Oct 18 Early Triassic’s Stifling Heat Made Earth Hostile to Life, Scientists Say Researchers used fossils like this of Early Triassic conodonts, an eel-like marine animal, for oxygen isotope measurement and past temperature reconstruction. Image by Yadong Sun. Some 250 million years ago, the oceans teemed with mollusks, clams, blue-green algae… Continue reading
Oct 17 Australian Scientist Wins ‘Dance Your Ph.D’ Contest A new "Dance Your PhD" contest winner has been announced, and it involves juggling, shuffling bodies and burlesque-style dancing behind rainbow-colored umbrellas. This year's winner is Peter Liddicoat, a materials scientist at the University of… Continue reading
Oct 16 Behind the Supersonic Stratospheric Skydive By Jenny Marder Update: 4:53 p.m. ET | On Sunday, the world watched as a helium balloon carried a capsule containing Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner to a height of 128,000 feet. And then, clad in an astronaut-like spacesuit, Baumgartner opened the capsule door,… Continue reading