Oct 05 Watch Google’s Schmidt on the ‘Winners and Losers’ in Search Rankings Google's Schmidt on Questions Surrounding Search Rankings… Continue watching
Oct 05 What are Quasicrystals, and What Makes Them Nobel-Worthy? By Jenny Marder Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman looks through a microscope at the Technion Institute of Technology. Photo by AFP/ Getty Images. The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to an Israeli scientist named Dan Shechtman… Continue reading
Oct 05 Eric Schmidt on Google vs. Facebook By News Desk Gwen Ifill interviewed Google's Eric Schmidt -- the company's former CEO and current executive chairman -- as part of the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday. Among her questions about the search giant: can it really take on Facebook with it's… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Eric Schmidt on Google vs. Facebook Gwen Ifill interview's Google's Eric Schmidt as part of the Washington Ideas Forum. Continue watching
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