Sep 06 Watch WikiLeaks Under Fire After Document Dump Risks Identifying Sources The latest WikiLeaks document dump of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables included the names of thousands of people who had spoken in confidence to American diplomats. Ray Suarez discusses what created the controversy and the potential fallout with Wired's Kim… Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch How Has Skyscraper Design Changed Since 9/11? The collapse of the Twin Towers served as a stark and stunning reminder to architects and engineers of the value of using concrete to protect skyscrapers from the ravages of fire. Miles O'Brien reports on how the design of skyscrapers… Continue watching
Sep 05 NASA Technology, at Work on Earth Marathon finish line blankets. Photo by NASA Spinoff Magazine. Variations of many NASA inventions, initially developed for space travel and exploration, have worked their way into consumer culture, ranging from common household items to complex medical technology. Since 1973,… Continue reading
Sep 05 Motion Sickness Treatments Make Waves Photo by Flickr user billyblackbear38. James Locke, a flight surgeon at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, has made dozens of people sick in the name of science. When he puts subjects in a spinning chair designed to… Continue reading
Sep 05 Lee Downgraded to Tropical Depression, 2 Die in Texas Fire A man paddles a canoe through flood waters in Lafitte, La. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images. After sweeping through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Sunday morning, causing flooding in low-lying areas and leaving thousands without power, a weakened storm is… Continue reading
Sep 02 Obama Drops Proposed Clean Air Rules President Obama has reversed course on proposed smog standards, a victory for business interests that had decried the smog restrictions on the grounds that they should be postponed -- until at least 2013 -- due to the recession. The… Continue reading
Sep 01 iPods, Androids Could Be Cancer-Detection Tools iPods charging. Photo by Flickr user Stephen Hackett. Cancer screening...is there an app for that? Not quite, but a newly developed device run by an iPod Touch, iPad or Android tablet could help diagnose cancers in poor or rural… Continue reading
Sep 01 Watch If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable story of the group’s rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch Arsonists or Terrorists? Film Details Rise, Fall of Earth Liberation Front Cell Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell… Continue watching
Sep 01 Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell Through The Eyes of a Former Member Photo by T. J. Watt On Thursday's NewsHour, we will feature an excerpt of the film "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," which looks at the radical environmental group through the transformation of… Continue reading