Jul 13 Watch In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power Miles O'Brien examines power grid reliability in a neighborhood near Austin, Texas that uses "smart grid" technology to track - and control - its energy consumption. Continue watching
Jul 13 The View from the Volt: Miles Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power EmbedVideo(3888, 482, 304); Last week, a powerful "derecho" storm hammered the mid-Atlantic region, snuffing out power during the peak of a sweltering heat wave for nearly a week in some homes. Days later, our science correspondent Miles… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Miles O'Brien Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power Miles briefs Hari on a cutting-edge, smart-power project in Austin… Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch How 'Twilight' Stardom Helped the Quileute's Land Struggle For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/climate-change/… Continue watching
Jul 12 Oregon Cave Yields New Clues to Earliest Americans University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins holds three ancient tools known as Western Stemmed projectiles from the Paisley Caves in Oregon. Photo by Jim Barlow. It was long thought that the Clovis people were the first North American human… Continue reading
Jul 12 Stellar Arts: Astronomy as Muse for African Artists EmbedVideo(3876, 514, 320); From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the exhibit "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" examines how African artists… Continue reading
Jul 12 African Cosmos: Stellar Arts By Extra DA From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the Smithsonian's "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" exhibit examines how African artists through time have looked to the sky,… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in 'African Cosmos' Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in "African Cosmos."… Continue watching
Jul 12 Was Your Yahoo! Password Exposed? News broke late last night that the Yahoo Voices service was hacked, exposing more than 450,000 usernames and passwords. If you'd like to check whether your email address was included we've built this tool: Type in your username or… Continue reading
Jul 11 Ray Kurzweil's Immortality Cocktail; And a Student Loan Skeptic EmbedVideo(3861, 482, 304); Wednesday we feature the second of our interview outtakes with inventor/author/futurist Ray Kurzweil. (Tuesday's installment: the melding of man and machine.) In our broadcast story, which debuted on Making Sen$e Monday, Kurzweil explained… Continue reading