May 10 ‘Oops Babies’ Sired by Twice-Vasectomized Chimp EmbedVideo(3319, 482, 304); Editor's note: On Thursday's NewsHour broadcast, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the debate over using chimpanzees for biomedical research. First, here's an inside look at one of the sanctuaries profiled in… Continue reading
May 08 Watch Science Nation: This Breathalyzer Reveals Signs of Disease Science Nation video about a breathalyzer test that looks for disease. Continue watching
May 08 Breathalyzer Detects Diseases From Diabetes to Cancer EmbedVideo(3340, 514, 320); Take a deep breath and exhale thousands of clues about your health. Perena Gouma and her team at Stony Brook University have developed a breathalyzer with a sensor chip that can detect diseases and disorders… Continue reading
May 07 Watch Incredible, Edible Bugs: Will Meals of Mealworms Catch on in U.S.? Incredible, Edible Bugs: Will Meals of Mealworms Catch on in U.S.?… Continue watching
May 07 Bugs for Dinner? An edible waterbug. Photo by Sevda Eris / KQED When I told my wife and family that I was going to be eating insects as part of a story I was preparing for the PBS NewsHour, the universal… Continue reading
May 04 Watch Louisiana Chimps Pregnant Despite Multiple Vasectomies Miles O'Brien interviews Chimp Haven director Linda Brent on chimpanzee vasectomies. Continue watching
May 03 Watch SpaceX Boldly Looks to Blast ‘Millions of People to Mars’ With the space shuttle era now over and U.S. space flight on the verge of going private for the near future, the company behind the so-called SpaceX project has ambitious plans to make space flight cheaper for cargo and for… Continue watching
May 03 Are You Smarter Than a 10th Grader on Climate Change? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Think you understand climate science better than the average American teen? On the PBS NewsHour this week we've been focusing on how climate change is taught in the classroom. But you can test your knowledge with this climate quiz:… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Teachers Endure Balancing Act Over Climate Change Curriculum For the first time, new national educational standards for grades K-12 will link global warming trends to manmade emissions. Part of our Coping With Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan looks at the challenges teachers face when covering the topic of… Continue watching
May 02 Black Hole Rips Star To Shreds, Then Swallows It Computer simulation shows a star being shredded by the gravity of a massive black hole and ejecting the debris at high speeds.The blue dot pinpoints the black hole's location. Credit: NASA, S. Gezari. This video simulates the murder of a… Continue reading