Science

Follow PBS NewsHour’s complete coverage of Science and Technology stories.

Anytime a story about Google's omniscient car cameras comes up, there is an inevitable gasp in the newsroom about the information that is available to anyone, anywhere thanks to images nabbed when the company's cars drove down familiar streets.

EmbedVideo(3149, 482, 304); On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, Tom Bearden reports on efforts to better understand a phenomenon called liquefaction. When a powerful earthquake shakes a region, sandy soils can turn to liquid and lose their ability to…

EmbedVideo(3133, 482, 304); In 1998, Dr. Billy Campbell, a family practitioner in Westminster, South Carolina, opened a land preserve founded on a unique model: enlisting death in the fight for ecological conservation. Calling it the Ramsey…

Apr 11

No image
Citizen Scientists Track Rain Drop by Drop

*Jim Ridgley checks his rain gauge outside his house in Frederick, Md. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson.* Inside Jim Ridgley's living room in Frederick, Md., the fire station scanner chatters nonstop and the AM radio buzzes with weather reports. A hand-held…