Aug 11 Drought Monitor Tracks Extreme Heat Across the Nation EmbedVideo(1224, 482, 304); Record heat and dry conditions continue to plague large parts of the United States this summer. While the south central region of the United States has been hit especially hard, more than 30 percent of… Continue reading
Aug 09 Tweeting Your Health Woes Could Help Fight Disease Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images That "viral" metaphor for social media just got a little more bona fide. According to a recent slate of independent studies, Twitter can accurately track the spread of a virus or disease -- and… Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch Thelon River Explorers Battles Storms, Harsh Winds, Mosquito Swarms Nature Conservancy's Sanjayan discusses his trip along the remote Thelon River Sanctuary. Continue watching
Aug 09 Thelon River Explorers Check in from the Campground EmbedVideo(1204, 482, 304); After 16 days of battling fierce mosquito swarms and hauling heavy equipment along a poorly charted river, Nature Conservancy's M. Sanjayan and a group of young members from the Dene First Nation have completed their… Continue reading
Aug 08 Halfway to Key West, Diana Nyad Ends Her Swim US swimmer Diana Nyad jumps into the water at Ernest Hemingway Nautical Club in Havana on August 7, beginning her 103-mile journey. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Update: August 9, 8:50 a.m. ET After 29 hours in the water, shifting… Continue reading
Aug 08 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? By Talea Miller Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into… Continue reading
Aug 05 Mapping the Human Brain For this week's Science Nation, Miles O'Brien reports on a neuroanatomist who is using real brains to build three-dimensional brain maps. Neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese, director of the brain observatory at University of California, Los Angeles, collects and… Continue reading
Aug 05 Juno Blasts Off for Planet Jupiter For the first time in 16 years, NASA is heading back to planet Jupiter to look beyond the planet's clouds and hopefully get some answers on the earliest days of the solar system. At 12:25 p.m., the four-ton… Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch Massive Campaign of Cyber Spying Uncovered The public learned this week of a five-year, high-level hacking campaign that infiltrated computer systems of more than 70 governments, corporations and public and private organizations in 14 countries. Margret Warner discusses the hack, uncovered by McAfee, with Vanity Fair's… Continue watching
Aug 04 Mysterious Markings May Indicate Water on Mars During its warmer seasons, dark fingerlike streaks that look like rivers, streams and small channels appear along the hills and slopes of Mars. The markings are seasonal: They swell during the planet's warm season and fade as it gets… Continue reading