Dec 28 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A visitor takes a picture on an iPad of a statue of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary. The six-and-a-half foot bronze statue by Erno Toth depicts Jobs with his trademark turtleneck shirt, jeans, sneakers… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch In Peru, Gold Rush Leads to Mercury Contamination Concerns In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports. Continue watching
Dec 26 Watch Reddit Hopes to Unwrap Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Secret Santa RedditGifts Hopes to Unwrap Guinness World Record for World's Largest Secret Santa… Continue watching
Dec 26 RedditGifts Hopes to Unwrap Guinness Record for Largest Secret Santa Swap EmbedVideo(2270, 482, 304); If you think organizing a secret Santa exchange for your office is tricky, try organizing one for the entire globe. As people across the world finish unwrapping Christmas gifts, almost 40,000 people have also… Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch Fearing Bioterrorism, Government Panel Asks: What Research Should Be Secret? How much research about the deadly bird flu virus should be available to the public? Ray Suarez discusses the question that many in the science, bioterrorism and national security fields are considering with Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute… Continue watching
Dec 22 The Science of Snowflakes, and Why No Two Are Alike Peer through a magnifying glass at a snowflake, and you'll see an ice creation more elaborate than anything Martha Stewart could cut from folded paper. So what's behind the snowflake's unique and elaborate shape? The snowflakes that settle… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch New EPA Rules Target Power Plants’ Toxic Mercury Emissions The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new standards Wednesday to curb mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fueled power plants around the country. Gwen Ifill discusses the announcement with the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council's Scott Segal and the Natural Resources Defense Council's… Continue watching
Dec 21 The Science of Snow Crystals By Jenny Marder It's true: no two snowflakes are alike. But they come in more shapes than you might think. Check out some samples in this slideshow. Continue reading
Dec 20 Scientists Find Smallest Exoplanets Yet This 'planet line-up' displays the first two Earth-size extrasolar planets, Kepler-20 e and Kepler-20 f, together with the Earth and Venus, ranked by their size. Image by Tim Pyle. Scientists have found two fiery hot, Earth-sized exoplanets whizzing… Continue reading
Dec 19 Human Waste Killing Caribbean Coral The bright orange Elkhorn coral off the coast of Florida have been devastated by a disease that scientists have tracked to human sewage. Elkhorn coral was at one time the most common coral in the Caribbean, but has… Continue reading