Oct 02 Losing the Great Barrier Reef By PBS News Hour The Australian Institute of Marine Science reported that over half of the Great Barrier Reef has been lost due to storms, ocean acidification and a destructive species of starfish called crown of thorns. Here you can see the difference these… Continue reading
Oct 02 Worm Researcher, Planet Hunter, Geochemist Among 'Genius Grant' Winners Olivier Guyon is an Optical Physicist and Astronomer at the University of Arizona. Photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Olivier Guyon designs powerful telescopes that hunt for Earthlike planets -- exoplanets -- outside our solar system. Terry Plank… Continue reading
Sep 28 Driverless Car to Hit California Roads EmbedVideo(4590, 482, 304); Who says a car needs a driver? California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law on Tuesday that makes it legal for driverless cars to travel on state highways. This opens California roads to the cars… Continue reading
Sep 28 Curiosity Finds Evidence of Ancient Water Flows on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found signs of water in the form of gravel… Continue reading
Sep 27 Why Pandas Have Trouble Getting Pregnant EmbedVideo(4568, 482, 304); On Sept. 16, after five years of trying, a female giant panda at Smithsonian's National Zoo finally gave birth to her second cub. Zookeepers were overjoyed; director Dennis Kelly called it… Continue reading
Sep 27 Helping Nature Along: Breeding Giant Pandas By Online DA The giant panda is an endangered species, threatened by destruction of their natural habitats and low birth rates. At zoos, like Smithsonian's National Zoo, veterinarians and zoologists attempt to understand the reproductive cycle of these large mammals to prevent their… Continue reading
Sep 26 The Shuttle Shokunin: Miles O'Brien on Kennedy Space Center's 50th Anniversary This image of space shuttle Discovery was taken as the craft began its rollout from the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for STS-133, its final mission. Photo by NASA. Editor's note: This… Continue reading
Sep 26 Getting to 'No' Why Russia Loves the Veto Vitaly Churkin, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, attends an Aug. 30 U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, is a well traveled… Continue reading
Sep 26 Fracking Goes Global Vitaly Churkin, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, attends an Aug. 30 U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, is a well traveled… Continue reading