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
Aug 03 Watch From Netflix to Hulu, Streaming Video Businesses Gaining Ground What have you been watching on your computer lately? More and more Americans are checking out movies and television program online. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the recent push toward more streaming content with GershonMedia's Bernard Gershon. Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch Heat Wave, Drought Create ‘Grim’ Crop Yields for Farmers in Plains, South New research by the National Drought Mitigation Center shows 12 percent of U.S. land is in the midst of an exceptional drought, which is the largest contiguous area to suffer such difficult conditions in 12 years. Ray Suarez discusses how… Continue watching
Aug 03 Airplane Turbulence: Is It Dangerous? By Jenny Marder Photo by WTL via Flickr. No frequent flyer is a stranger to turbulence. But what causes it, and how dangerous is it? Turbulence is the random, chaotic motion of air, caused by changes in air currents. From inside an… Continue reading
Aug 02 Asteroid Close-Up, Giant Fungus and Tomato Blight Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Spacecraft Dawn's Detailed Images of Asteroid Vesta Mysterious tracks around asteroid Vesta's equator suggest that a tremendous impact by another unknown asteroid must have blasted Vesta during its early days. This comes from new images… Continue reading
Aug 01 New Widget Tracks Record-Breaking High Temperatures EMBED THIS: » View All High Temperature Records On July 22, thermometers in Newark, N.J., peaked at a staggering 108 degrees,… Continue reading
Aug 01 The Science of Shopping "With so many products and so many stores and websites, how do we decide what to buy and where to shop?" NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien asks in the National Science Foundation's latest Science Nation piece. Computer scientists… Continue reading