Oct 26 Designing Robobees Poses Engineering Challenge EmbedVideo(4826, 482, 304); The robotic bee, or "robobee" has an electronic nervous system that tells it to flap its wings, an exoskeleton inspired by a children's pop-up book and a computer-chip brain. Researchers at Harvard University are designing… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Science Nation - RoboBees: Design Poses Intriguing Engineeri It started with a TV show, "Silence of the Bees," about honeybee populations in steep decline. At Harvard University, electrical engineers Rob Wood and Gu-Yeon Wei, and computer scientist Radhika Nagpal saw a challenge. And, so began the creation of… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better… Continue watching
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