Nov 14 Watch World’s Largest Dam Removal Aims to Restore River Ecosystem For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Nov 14 Did Fracking Cause Oklahoma’s Largest Recorded Earthquake? Probably Not. A worker cleans and lubricates the head of a hydraulic fracturing machine at Southwestern Energy Co.'s natural gas production site at the Marcellus Shale formation in Camptown, Pa. Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images. The biggest earthquake ever recorded… Continue reading
Nov 10 Watch Safecast Draws on Power of the Crowd to Map Japan’s Radiation Eight months after a tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan, ordinary people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find radiation hotspots. NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Japan. Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch Obama Administration Delays Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Should President Obama approve a major extension of the Keystone XL pipeline? Ray Suarez discusses that question, which has divided business, environmental groups and labor unions, with The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin. Continue watching
Nov 10 What’s the Fallout for Dogs Near Fukushima? While shooting, the NewsHour and Safecast crew encounter an abandoned dog. Photo by Sean Bonner of Safecast.org. Update: 4 pm ET, Nov 11| At the tail end of Miles O'Brien's latest NewsHour report on radiation in… Continue reading
Nov 10 ‘Hacker’ Group Safecast Crowdsources Radiation Data in Japan By Jenny Marder // We officially launch a new feature today we're calling "Science Thursday." Each week, we'll feature an online-exclusive multimedia piece on a topic in the world of science and technology. Here's what's up first. On Thursday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch Online “Hacker” Group Crowdsources Radiation Data for Japanese Public Miles on his latest his report on a group that's collecting radiation data in Japan. Continue watching
Nov 08 Asteroid Encounter: YU55 to Fly By Earth on Tuesday This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained at 2:45 pm ET on Nov. 7 when the space rock was 860,000 miles from Earth. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. As folks on the East Coast are feeding the dog, cooking… Continue reading
Nov 07 Mysterious Noncoding DNA: ‘Junk’ or Genetic Power Player? By Jenny Marder On a regular basis, reporter Jenny Marder tackles a question in science and technology news. It's a feature we call "Just Ask." Today our topic is DNA. What is noncoding DNA, and why do we need it? In 1953, James… Continue reading
Nov 04 Mars500 Crew Finally Freed More than 500 days of isolation with five other guys ... could you do it? That is what one Chinese man, two European and three Russian men have been through to simulate what humans might encounter if they attempted… Continue reading