Apr 16 DeterLab's Cyber 'Racetrack' Battles Computer Hackers UCLA computer science graduate student Erik Kline really enjoys his studies. That's partly because he has access to a massive computer test bed -- sort of a mini-Internet where he and other researchers can safely stage computer attacks and… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch The E-Book War: the Stakes in the Fight for Readers' Dollars Citing consumer losses of millions of dollars, the Justice Department accused Apple and five publishers this week of colluding to raise e-book prices and break Amazon's dominant hold in the market. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the market with… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil? Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil?… Continue watching
Apr 12 Risky Business in the Pacific Northwest 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… Continue reading
Apr 12 Six Feet Under Can Be Green for Eternity By Frank Carlson 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… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch "Dying Green" Explores Conservation Through Natural Burial A new documentary explores green burial - and how it can be used to conserve land. Continue watching
Apr 11 Citizen Scientists Track Rain Drop by Drop By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy *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… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Introduction to CoCoRaHS A brief introduction to Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network, a grassroots volunteer organization that measures and track precipitation. Continue watching
Apr 09 Watch March Shattered Temperature Records Across U.S. A day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Continue watching