Oct 03 Dragonflies: Mavericks of Mid-Air A few facts about dragonflies: they hunt their prey, mate and lay eggs in mid-air. They have eyes that wrap around their head, giving them great visibility. They can fly straight up, straight down, hover like helicopters and… Continue reading
Sep 30 Researchers Reconstruct Movies Using Scans of Brain Activity Image courtesy Shinji Nishimoto. Mind reading, recording dreams ... both the makings of great movies. But what once was science fiction is now one step closer to real science. A group of researchers from the University of California… Continue reading
Sep 30 Solar Decathlon Contest Refocuses on Affordability of New Homes EmbedVideo(1649, 482, 304); WASHINGTON | In addition to more space for her family, Lakiya Culley's new home in Southeast Washington, D.C., comes with another big benefit: miniscule power bills. Culley will be living in the Empowerhouse. The house… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch ‘Empowerhouse’ Goes Beyond the Solar Decathlon to Make Green Energy Affordable For more on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Sep 29 Something in the Way You Move: Cameras May Soon Recognize Criminals by Their Gait By Quinn Bowman and Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American The capture and analysis of surveillance footage has been an indispensable tool for U.S. counterterrorism and law enforcement in the past decade. Video analysis software has improved since the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- it can be programmed to identify… Continue reading
Sep 23 ‘Contagion’ Reality Check: CDC Experts Explore Some of the Film’s Scenarios Scene from the movie "Contagion." Photo from Warner Bros. Ent. The box-office hit "Contagion," a movie about a lethal airborne virus that kills within days, is still a top dramatic draw going into the weekend. The film has drawn interest… Continue reading
Sep 23 Small Particles Raise Big Questions About Foundations of Physics "May the book bring some one a few happy hours of suggestive thought!!" Albert Einstein wrote that in 1916 at the end of the preface to his groundbreaking book, "Relativity: The Special and General Theory." Scientists around the globe have… Continue reading
Sep 20 Must-Read List: Understanding the Netflix Split It might not end quite as badly as the "New Coke" marketing campaign once did. But Netflix's announcement that it will split its video service into two separate operations -- with a renamed DVD-by-mail service that will now be called… Continue reading
Sep 20 Spacecraft Beams Back New Images of Asteroid Vesta This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA An asteroid with cliffs that climb 9-miles high, deep grooves and craters can be seen in… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Cowboys vs. Gray Wolves: Predator Once Again Prey For the first time in years, hunting season for the once-endangered gray wolf is underway in Idaho and Montana to reduce the predator's population. Cattle ranchers say the hunts are necessary to protect their herds, but environmentalists disagree. Science correspondent… Continue watching