May 25 Watch News Wrap: International Space Station Grasps SpaceX ‘Dragon’ Capsule In other news Friday, the unmanned SpaceX "Dragon" spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robot arm in a rendezvous high over Australia. In Syria, anti-government activists reported an army assault killed at least 50 people in the central… Continue watching
May 24 Watch Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete? Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from a recent conference run by a California think tank -- things such as 3-D printing of prosthetic legs and iPhone… Continue watching
May 24 Farmers, How Have You Been Affected by Climate Change? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Farmers, how have changes in your local climate affected your agricultural business? Bill Couser inspects one of the first fields he planted with corn in mid-April on his farm near Nevada, Iowa. (Sarah McCammon for Harvest Public Media) The U.S. Continue reading
May 24 How the Nuclear Bomb Gave Us the Computer EmbedVideo(3476, 480, 320); At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.'s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan Project was busy building a bomb that would be a thousand times more powerful than the… Continue reading
May 23 Watch As Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75, History Revised to Honor Engineer As Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75, History Revised to Honor Engineer… Continue watching
May 22 Watch A Year After Joplin’s Tornado, Disaster’s ‘Immensity’ Still a Challenge A Year After Joplin's Tornado, Disaster's 'Immensity' Still a Challenge… Continue watching
May 22 Watch SpaceX Blasts Into ‘Uncharted Territory,’ Hoping to Make Space Cheaper SpaceX Blasts Into 'Uncharted Territory,' Hoping to Make Space Cheaper… Continue watching
May 22 Miles O’Brien on SpaceX Launch: Space for the Rest of Us Courtesy: NASA Updated 2:10 p.m. ET Space is hard and unforgiving and there is still a lot of challenging work ahead for the SpaceX Dragon team. I would not pop the champagne corks just yet. But this is a… Continue reading
May 21 Mapping Alligator Genomes Is Risky Business EmbedVideo(3431, 480, 320); Science Nation looks for answers in crocodile DNA. Collecting DNA samples isn't easy when your subject could snap off your hand with one bite, but it's a risk David Ray -- a researcher at Mississippi… Continue reading
May 18 Watch ‘The Information Diet’: Should Americans Exercise More ‘Conscious Consumption’? 'The Information Diet': Should Americans Exercise More 'Conscious Consumption'?… Continue watching