Dec 16 5 Resources on Accused WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning’s Trial Several dozen supporters of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning gathered Friday at the entrance to Fort Meade, where his preliminary hearing is taking place. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Months of debate and demonstrations over the flood of classified… Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Dec 15 Spacecraft Snaps Giant Asteroid Vesta Up Close In mid-July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft swung into a yearlong orbit around Vesta, the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since then, it has been snapping pictures of the protoplanet's rugged surface and beaming them… Continue reading
Dec 15 Asteroid Vesta Revealed By Jenny Marder On December 12, Dawn maneuvered into its closest orbit yet around giant asteroid Vesta. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an altitude of about 130 miles. Since NASA's spacecraft dawn snapped into orbit around the object, it has been… Continue reading
Dec 14 The Daily Frame A worker at the "European Organization for Nuclear Research walks past a mural representation of the ATLAS Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Continue reading
Dec 13 Just Ask: Hunt for Higgs Continues; Scientists Work to Separate the ‘Signal from the Noise’ By Jenny Marder Protons collide at CERN's CMS experiment Image by Thomas McCauley, Lucas Taylor/CERN. What does the Higgs boson mean to physics, and how will particle physicists know when they've found it? Evidence of the elusive Higgs Boson may be peeking out… Continue reading
Dec 12 Watch After Durban, What Comes Next for Climate Policy? At the 17th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in South Africa, leaders from around the world came to a broad last-minute compromise, but details were scarce. Ray Suarez discusses what comes next after the Durban summit with the University… Continue watching
Dec 12 What We’re Reading: Durban Deal, Wind Farms and Vocal Fry U.N. Climate Talks' Real-World Outcome Will be Determined in Asia The deal agreed to in Durban, South Africa will require major developing nations to make emissions cuts. This article is a good primer on the highlights of the… Continue reading
Dec 09 Night Satellite Images Give Clues to Measles Outbreaks A 3D plot shows the nighttime brightness of areas of Niger over the course of a year. Image courtesy Science/AAAS. The intensity of light shining from cities at night could help identify hot spots where outbreaks of infectious disease… Continue reading
Dec 09 Great Lakes: Beyond the Biology Lake Superior is warming at an alarming rate, according to oceanographer Tom Johnson of the University of Minnesota Duluth. "As I started doing work in Lake Superior, I came to realize there had been very little done… Continue reading