Jul 31 Countdown Clock Ticks Toward Curiosity Landing on Mars This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot designed to Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA scientists call it the seven minutes of terror: the amount… Continue reading
Jul 31 Civic Startups Introduce New Technology to Government EmbedVideo(4022, 482, 304); Former congressional aide Marci Harris was frustrated with the way information and messages flooded into the office of Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and got lost. In 2010, she left to solve government's biggest problems. "The… Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch Big Stakes on Small Devices: Apple and Samsung Square Off in Federal Court Big Stakes on Small Devices: Apple and Samsung Square Off in Federal Court… Continue watching
Jul 30 Watch Civic Startups Introduce New Technology to Government Civic Startups Introduce New Technology to Government… Continue watching
Jul 30 Apple and Samsung Face Off in Court People line up to enter the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse on July 30, 2012 in San Jose, Calif. (All photos by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The high-stakes trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. geared up Monday… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch An Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them An Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them… Continue watching
Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 25 Sudden, Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? By Jenny Marder In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this extraordinary melt? Since May,… Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists… Continue watching