May 28 Floating Architecture: Preparing for a Life on Water By Saskia de Melker As the climate continues to change, scientists are predicting more precipitation, flooding and rising seas across the globe. In response, there is a growing movement in architecture and design to create homes and other buildings that would allow people to… Continue reading
May 25 Watch Are U.S. Nuclear Plants Ready for a Fukushima-Like Meltdown? When Chairman Gregory Jaczko resigned from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week, reports suggested it was linked to battles within the commission over safety requirements. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Miles O'Brien reports on how government regulators… Continue watching
May 25 International Space Station Catches 'Dragon by the Tail' "Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail," announced NASA astronaut Don Pettit as the International Space Station's robotic arm reached out and grabbed the SpaceX Dragon capsule Friday morning. Since the Dragon capsule launched from Cape… Continue reading
May 25 Watch News Wrap: International Space Station Grasps SpaceX 'Dragon' Capsule In other news Friday, the unmanned SpaceX "Dragon" spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robot arm in a rendezvous high over Australia. In Syria, anti-government activists reported an army assault killed at least 50 people in the central… Continue watching
May 24 Watch Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete? Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from a recent conference run by a California think tank -- things such as 3-D printing of prosthetic legs and iPhone… Continue watching
May 24 Farmers, How Have You Been Affected by Climate Change? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Farmers, how have changes in your local climate affected your agricultural business? Bill Couser inspects one of the first fields he planted with corn in mid-April on his farm near Nevada, Iowa. (Sarah McCammon for Harvest Public Media) The U.S. Continue reading
May 24 How the Nuclear Bomb Gave Us the Computer EmbedVideo(3476, 480, 320); At the close of World War II, in Princeton, N.J.'s Institute for Advanced Study, an extension of the Manhattan Project was busy building a bomb that would be a thousand times more powerful than the… Continue reading
May 23 Watch As Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75, History Revised to Honor Engineer As Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75, History Revised to Honor Engineer… Continue watching
May 22 Watch A Year After Joplin's Tornado, Disaster's 'Immensity' Still a Challenge A Year After Joplin's Tornado, Disaster's 'Immensity' Still a Challenge… Continue watching
May 22 Watch SpaceX Blasts Into 'Uncharted Territory,' Hoping to Make Space Cheaper SpaceX Blasts Into 'Uncharted Territory,' Hoping to Make Space Cheaper… Continue watching