Oct 05 Text-Messaging for Health Still Has Its Challenges By Larisa Epatko At first glance, text-messaging health alerts to poor, rural populations with widespread mobile phone use is a no-brainer. But what about the challenges of providing useful information and the simple act of re-charging phones in isolated spots?… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch U.S. Scientists’ Research on Universe Expansion Earns Nobel Nod Three U.S. physicists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering through the study of supernovae that the universe is not just expanding, but speeding up. KQED's Andrea Kissack profiles one of the scientists and his research. Continue watching
Oct 04 Physicists Awarded Nobel for Accelerating Universe Discovery This colorized Chandra image of a supernova 1a remnant shows X-rays produced by high-energy particles (blue) and multimillion degree gas (red/green.) Photo by NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Hughes et al. Three U.S. physicists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering, by… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Nobels Honor Immune System Research Paving Way for New Vaccines, Treatments American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, who died on Friday, for their discoveries related to the immune system. Jeffrey Brown discusses their work with Dr. Anthony Fauci of… Continue watching
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