Nov 17 Watch Amid Solyndra Turmoil, How Involved Should Government Be in Energy Research? Should the government help spur or back certain kinds of energy research? Jeffrey Brown discusses the political storm over the government's backing of the now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra with Eileen Claussen of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions… Continue watching
Nov 17 Drooling Electrons, Thermodynamics and Beta Decay … in Verse By Jenny Marder // In Mala Radhakrishnan's world, where oxygen and palladium atoms clamor to get into the most sought-after beaker and tortured carbon atoms become boron swans, chemistry is rife with mystery, jealousy and, yes, romance. Radhakrishnan, assistant professor at Wellesley College,… Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch Drooling Electrons, Thermodynamics and Beta Decay…In Verse Radhakrishnan talks to Hari about her new book on chemistry poetry. Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch Radioactive Dating Game Mala Radhakrishnan reads her poem, "The Radioactive Dating Game."… Continue watching
Nov 16 Watch Congress Honors 4 Astronauts With Highest Civilian Honor Four astronauts were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor on Wednesday: the Congressional Gold Medal. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Nov 15 What Stirred Up the Moon’s Ancient Magnetic Field? In its ancient history, the moon had a magnetic field that may have lasted more than a billion years. Photo by NASA. Update: 7 pm ET, Nov 15| Lunar rocks collected during Apollo moon missions revealed a mysterious… Continue reading
Nov 14 NewsHour Connect: World’s Largest Dam Removal Set to Restore Ecosystem By Saskia de Melker The world's biggest dam removal project -- and the second-largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history -- is in progress on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The Elwha Dam and the Glines Canyon Dam… Continue reading
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