Jan 19 Darwin Fossils Released From Hiding This slide containing the cross section of a monkey-puzzle conifer tree was most likely collected from South America. Photo by British Geological Survey/Natural Environment Research Council. Updated: January 20, 6:30 p.m. ET| In April 2011, Howard Falcon-Lang,… Continue reading
Jan 18 Rediscovering Charles Darwin By Jenny Marder Last spring, a British scientist reached into the back of a cabinet and pulled out a fossil with a signature that looked an awful lot like Charles Darwin's. Turns out it was. Here is a sample of the fossils, which… Continue reading
Jan 18 SOPA Blackouts: Reaction and Resources Many sites, including Wikipedia, Craigslist, Google and Boing Boing, have posted messages against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or are completely blacked out Wednesday. Reaction came quickly, from students wondering how they would do their homework to… Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch After Fallout of Fukushima, ‘Frontline’ Explores Nuclear Energy’s Future NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien traveled to three continents to examine the safety and future of nuclear energy in the wake of last spring's Fukushima reactor disaster in Japan. In this excerpt from Tuesday's edition of "Frontline," O'Brien visits the… Continue watching
Jan 16 Tracking Firefighters Through the Smoke Locating a missing person inside a burning building filled with blinding smoke can be tricky and extremely dangerous. University of Maryland firefighters are trying something new, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports in this National Science Foundation* Science Nation… Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch Domain Names: Debating the Effects of a Dot-Anything World ICANN, the company that assigns what are called domain names for the Web is making a big change and rolling out a program to dramatically increase the number and kind of names available. However, that could prove to be a… Continue watching
Jan 12 Giant Galaxy Cluster, Blue Stars and Cosmic Explosions Scientists have found the biggest distant galaxy cluster ever seen, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile. Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes et al, Optical: ESO/VLT/Pontificia Universidad. Catolica de Chile/L.Infante & SOAR (MSU/NOAO/UNC/CNPq-Brazil)/Rutgers/F.Menanteau, IR: NASA/JPL/Rutgers/F.Menanteau. Continue reading
Jan 12 Galaxy Clusters, Blue Stars and Cosmic Explosions By Jenny Marder Skywatchers gathered in Austin, Texas, this week at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting. Here's a look at some of the most exciting interstellar space findings, and the images that accompany them. Continue reading
Jan 11 Shedding Light on Early Cancer Detection Vadim Backman, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University is working to develop cancer detection procedures that are less invasive and more accurate. When cancer starts developing, cells in other parts of the body undergo changes. By using a… Continue reading