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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…

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…

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…