Aug 06 Watch For NASA Rover Team, Many Years of Work and 'Seven Minutes of Terror' Paid Off For NASA Rover Team, Many Years of Work and 'Seven Minutes of Terror' Paid Off… Continue watching
Aug 05 Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Surface of Mars After a 354 million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its rover Curiosity succeeded in a risky, sophisticated landing on the surface of Mars, and began beaming back photos of its own shadow against the soil of its… Continue reading
Aug 04 James Hansen: Extreme Heat Events Connected to Climate Change By Hari Sreenivasan James Hansen of NASA, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on the topic of climate change says there is now enough evidence to connect global warming to some of the extreme weather events of the recent past. Hansen tells… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Privacy in a Digital Age: When Twitter Followers Can Track a Lost Phone Privacy in a Digital Age: When Twitter Followers Can Track a Lost Phone… Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water? California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water?… Continue watching
Aug 02 The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers On average, Americans eat three hamburgers a week. That's a national total of nearly 50 billion burgers per year. And burgers typically cost only a few dollars from fast food joints. That seems pretty cheap. But what we don't… Continue reading
Aug 02 California Water: Old Song, New Lyrics The Sacramento San Joaquin delta waterway is a source of water and trouble. Photo by Spencer Michels. When I was in junior high school in San Francisco, in the early 1950s, I had a student teacher in social studies… Continue reading
Aug 02 California's Mixing Bowl: The Delta's Crucial Role in a Thirsty State On July 25, Gov. Jerry Brown of California and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a $23.7 billion plan to divert the Sacramento River's flow underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the California Aqueduct. Courtesy: Rich… Continue reading
Aug 02 Are We All Martians? The Curious Hunt for Life on Mars The prospect that Mars was once a cushy berth for life has waxed and waned as our abilities to study the planet have evolved. In the 1870's an Italian astronomer with the great, lyrical name of… Continue reading