May 01 Transparency or Bust: Riding a Hacker Bus to Change Brazil By Alex Bruns Photo of the Onibus Hacker by Bruno Fernandes. There's a buzz in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Actually, it's more of a rumbling sound coming from the turbocharged Mercedes diesel engine on the Onibus Hacker, a coach-turned-activist… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Teaching Climate Change- Climate Crisis Jam The Earthman sings about the climate change crisis as part of The Earthman Project. Continue watching
Apr 30 Tiny 3-D Structures Assemble with Remarkable Precision EmbedVideo(3225, 514, 320); A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins University are developing self-assembling, three-dimensional nanostructures that can be used for targeted drug delivery. Think devices thick as a human hair that release liquid and micro grippers that… Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Bridging the Gender Gap: Why More Women Aren’t Computer Scientists, Engineers Bridging the Gender Gap: Why More Women Aren't Computer Scientists, Engineers… Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation… Continue watching
Apr 26 What We Lose by Losing Women in the Hard Sciences EmbedVideo(3255, 482, 304); Is it inherent gender differences, subtle discrimination, the overwhelming "maleness" of the hard science fields? Experts have struggled for years to understand what's keeping more women from entering physics, engineering and computer science. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch “Hard” Sciences: A “Boy Thing?” Judy Woodruff interview Maria Klawe of Harvey Mudd College on women in the sciences. Continue watching
Apr 25 Why Engineering, Science Gender Gap Persists A female lab technician pipettes liquid into test tubes. Photo by Apostrophe Productions. Shree Bose, who won the grand prize at this year's Google Global Science Fair, credits her love of science to her big brother, Pinaki. As a… Continue reading
Apr 25 Recap Live Chat: Why Aren’t There More Female Scientists, Engineers? Updated April 28 This week on the NewsHour, we examined why women lag behind in some areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also known as STEM). Judy Woodruff also interviewed Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College on… Continue reading
Apr 24 Baby Dolphin Die-Offs Continue in the Gulf An unusually high number of dead dolphins - including stillborn and infant calves - have washed up along the Gulf of Mexico shores in the two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded into flames, unleashing tens of… Continue reading