Apr 17 Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Flight Discovery circles above Washington, D.C., before landing at Dulles International Airport. Photo by Getty Images. In Washington D.C., people pressed their faces against windows, squinted from rooftops and crowded the National Mall to catch a glimpse of Space… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Preventing a 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' Government-funded DETERlab was built to bring established scientific principles to the field of cybersecurity in hopes of preventing successful cyber attacks on targets such as power grids, banks and train systems. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on the project's hopes for… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch How Will FCC's Google Street View Fine Shape Data Privacy Rules? How Will FCC's Google Street View Fine Shape Data Privacy Rules?… Continue watching
Apr 16 How to Remove Yourself From Google Street View By Hari Sreenivasan Anytime a story about Google's omniscient car cameras comes up, there is an inevitable gasp in the newsroom about the information that is available to anyone, anywhere thanks to images nabbed when the company's cars drove down familiar streets. Continue reading
Apr 16 DeterLab's Cyber 'Racetrack' Battles Computer Hackers UCLA computer science graduate student Erik Kline really enjoys his studies. That's partly because he has access to a massive computer test bed -- sort of a mini-Internet where he and other researchers can safely stage computer attacks and… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch The E-Book War: the Stakes in the Fight for Readers' Dollars Citing consumer losses of millions of dollars, the Justice Department accused Apple and five publishers this week of colluding to raise e-book prices and break Amazon's dominant hold in the market. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the market with… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil? Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil?… Continue watching
Apr 12 Risky Business in the Pacific Northwest EmbedVideo(3149, 482, 304); On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, Tom Bearden reports on efforts to better understand a phenomenon called liquefaction. When a powerful earthquake shakes a region, sandy soils can turn to liquid and lose their ability to… Continue reading
Apr 12 Six Feet Under Can Be Green for Eternity By Frank Carlson EmbedVideo(3133, 482, 304); In 1998, Dr. Billy Campbell, a family practitioner in Westminster, South Carolina, opened a land preserve founded on a unique model: enlisting death in the fight for ecological conservation. Calling it the Ramsey… Continue reading