Oct 28 A Look at Lady Liberty’s First 125 Years For 125 years, the Statue of Liberty has stood in New York Harbor as an iconic greeting to arriving immigrants. Friday's anniversary began with a naturalization ceremony for 125 new American citizens hailing from 46 countries. In the… Continue reading
Oct 28 Advanced Weather-Watching Satellite Blasts Into Orbit A satellite designed to study the Earth's weather and climate launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket early Friday morning. It lifted off from California's Vandenberg Air Force through clear skies and ideal weather. Watch video of… Continue reading
Oct 27 Will Space Junk Collide With Plans for Future Exploration? EmbedVideo(1850, 482, 304); On Oct. 23, a German research satellite re-entered the earth's atmosphere and plunged into the northeast Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal. This event came less than two months after a report, conducted by the… Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch Space Junk Threatens Future Space Exploration Hari interviews orbital debris expert Donald Kessler. Continue watching
Oct 27 It’s Official: Fungus Causes Bat-Killing White-Nose Syndrome Scientists have identified the cause of a vicious disease devastating the northeastern U.S. bat population. Photo by Jonathan Mays, Wildlife Biologist, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. A fungus known as Geomyces destructans is indeed responsible for the… Continue reading
Oct 26 Why Do Some People Live Past 100? Genome May Hold Clues to Longevity Photo by Flickr user the Waltherfamily. Scientists call them supercontrols: people who have lived past 100, and have somehow evaded the age-related diseases most can't escape after a century of life, such as heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Kids Increasingly Staring at Glowing Screens, Study Finds How much time are our youngest children spending in front of screens? Jeffrey Brown discusses new studies that chronicle the increasing use of digital devices by young children -- and the resulting health effects -- with James Steyer of Common… Continue watching
Oct 25 Researchers Battle Parasite-Driven Frog Deformities At a University of Colorado lab, a leopard frog named Flipper flaps a half-formed seventh leg as he tries to navigate his aquarium. Another frog kicks himself onto his back and, burdened with two useless extra legs, can't manage… Continue reading
Oct 25 New Ban on Bath Salts After ‘People Started Dying From It’ Photo courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration No more picking up "Bliss," "Cloud Nine" or "Hurricane Charlie" at the corner grocery store. The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a temporary ban on U.S. sales of street drugs generically known… Continue reading
Oct 24 Stellar Vampires, Snake Sperm and Optomechanics By Jenny Marder Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers? Last week, scientists presented new theories on blue stragglers, stars that are bluer and brighter than other stars. The origins of how these stars formed have long confounded scientists. Astrophysicist Aaron Geller… Continue reading