Aug 24 El Nino Found to Drive Tropical Civil Wars Traditional passenger boats known as 'avisos' sit on the dried bed of the Negro river, 120 km from Manaus, in northern Brazil on October 22, 2010. Due to the El Nino climate phenomenon, the river was almost the lowest… Continue reading
Aug 24 Charging Cell Phones on the Sly in Syria, the True Story By Larisa Epatko Earlier this month, we aired a report from our partners at GlobalPost about protesters in Syria -- the mistreatment they endured and their tactics for getting around a restrictive regime. One method of recharging cell phone batteries described by one… Continue reading
Aug 23 Check How Intense East Coast Earthquake Was in Your Zip Code Text updated 7:52 p.m. ET | Tuesday afternoon's earthquake was a shared experience for millions of Americans along the East Coast, but how intense was it where you live? The U.S. Geological Survey has released a summary of the… Continue reading
Aug 23 Rare 5.8-Magnitude Earthquake Jolts East Coast, Causing Various Disruptions The above map shows earthquake activity in the United States in the past week: These maps requires the Google Earth browser plugin. Download the plugin here. Updated at 6:32 pm ET: A 5.8-magnitude temblor shook much of… Continue reading
Aug 23 Are Category 6 Hurricanes Coming Soon? Looking for signs of life after hurricane Ike hits Nederland, Tex. Photo by Getty Images. Atmospheric researchers tend to agree that tropical cyclones of unusual ferocity are coming this century, but the strange fact is that there is no… Continue reading
Aug 22 What We’re Reading: Brain Walls, Critter Vision and Microfossil Wars By Jenny Marder NASA To Share Telescope Cost The threatened James Webb Space Telescope, which is "perilously overbudget", may get a financial lifeline from other parts of NASA's budget, Nature News reports. As of now, the telescope is funded through the… Continue reading
Aug 19 Study: Black Researchers Receive Fewer NIH Grants James A. Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. Photo by National Institutes of Health Library. A new study by the National Institutes of Health found a disturbing gap between the number of grants awarded to white scientists… Continue reading
Aug 19 Could Bacteria Be the Energy Producer of the Future? What if wastewater could be turned into energy? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on scientists from Penn State University that are developing microbial fuel cells that could channel energy produced when bacteria breaks down waste into electricity. Continue reading
Aug 17 Human Sewage Identified as Coral Killer The bacterium Serratia marcescens infected this coral from Looe Key in the Florida Keys, revealing the dead, white limestone skeleton underneath. Photo by James W. Porter. A Florida biologist has linked a vicious coral-killing pathogen in the Caribbean and… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Google’s Motorola Deal Promises to Shake Up Mobile Technology Industry Google announced plans this week to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. In recent years the Internet giant has made big plays in the smartphone market through its Android platform. Jeffrey Brown discusses the ramifications of the pending deal with… Continue watching