Apr 20 Watch Documentary Series “Leaps” Into Sustainability Richard Alley conversation Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Apr 19 Viewers Donate Over $8,000 to Aid Baby Deliveries in Developing World By Cat Wise A Liberian midwife learns how to maintain and clean a newly installed solar suitcase. PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels recently reported on the Berkeley, Calif., nonprofit We Care Solar, which developed a "solar suitcase" to provide lights and… Continue reading
Apr 19 Infrared Camera Sees Through Stardust to the Edge of the Universe Space tornadoes, stellar nurseries, primitive galaxies - these are just a few of the dazzling images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope since its 2003 launch. This week, NASA posted a collection of image highlights online. View the images… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch After Heart Attack, Turning Scar Tissue Back Into Beating Heart Cells After Heart Attack, Turning Scar Tissue Back Into Beating Heart Cells… Continue watching
Apr 18 Space Tornadoes, Baby Stars, and Ancient Galaxies By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy After a thousand days in space, the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope has sent back thousands of images of stars being born, space "tornadoes" and galaxies at the edge of the universe. To commemorate its voyage, the… Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch Space Shuttle Discovery Draws Eyes to Sky for Final Flight NASA's space shuttle Discovery captivated people in and around the nation's capital Tuesday as it flew piggy-back on a 747 over the Capitol en route on its last landing at Dulles International Airport. Gwen Ifill and Valerie Neal, a curator… Continue watching
Apr 17 Miles O’Brien Reflects on Discovery’s Last Flight, Space Shuttle Shortcomings EmbedVideo(3184, 482, 304); Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride Tuesday morning from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where it will live out its final days. Science correspondent Miles… Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch Miles O’Brien Reflects on Shuttle Program Shortcomings Miles O'Brien on Discovery's Final Flight, Shuttle Program Shortcomings. Continue watching
Apr 17 Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final Flight Discovery circles above Washington, D.C., before landing at Dulles International Airport. Photo by Getty Images. In Washington D.C., people pressed their faces against windows, squinted from rooftops and crowded the National Mall to catch a glimpse of Space… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Preventing a ‘Cyber-Pearl Harbor’ Government-funded DETERlab was built to bring established scientific principles to the field of cybersecurity in hopes of preventing successful cyber attacks on targets such as power grids, banks and train systems. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on the project's hopes for… Continue watching