Jun 09 Watch ‘Up in Smoke’ Film Examines Perils of Slash and Burn Agriculture In "Up in Smoke," filmmaker Adam Wakeling follows ecologist Michael Hands as he introduces Honduran farmers to the inga tree, his solution to problems caused by slash and burn agricultural practices. The documentary is part of a series of independently… Continue watching
Jun 09 At the Far End of the Solar System: Space Bubbles Some 10 billion miles from Earth, the decades-old twin Voyager spacecraft have beamed back new data that show frenzied bubbles near the edge of our solar system. Continue reading
Jun 09 ‘Up in Smoke’ Chronicles Slash and Burn Agriculture in Honduras We're looking at the film "Up in Smoke," a documentary on the use of slash and burn agriculture in Central America, this week as part of our partnership with The Economist magazine that showcases the art of filmmaking. Continue reading
Jun 09 Shattered Expectations: Ultrabright Supernovae Defy Explanation A rare, superluminous kind of stellar explosion does not fit into the usual supernova categories… Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch Search for Effective PTSD Treatments Shows Some Promise As part of a new partnership with the NewsHour, Jay Shefsky of WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" reports on scientists' search for effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch World Tests IPv6: Why 4.2 Billion Internet Addresses Just Weren’t Enough More than 400 organizations and Internet giants participated Wednesday in a trial run of a new addressing system, called Internet Protocol version 6, known as IPv6. Hari Sreenivasan reports on World IPv6 Day, and Leslie Daigle of the Internet Society… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch 4 1/2 billion IP Addresses: Just How Big is That? Hari asks, did you ever think we'd run out of 4 1/2 billion addresses?… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch IPv4’s Early Days "When you started this experiment back in the 1970's, what were you trying to build?"… Continue watching
Jun 08 Vint Cerf on IPv6 Trial: ‘The Internet Is Not Going to Melt Down’ On Wednesday, the Internet's addressing system was updated with a test of the new IPv6 protocol. Hari Sreenivasan turns to one of the Internet's original architects, Google's Vint Cerf, for more on the wildly growing Web. Continue reading
Jun 07 Internet Readies for Transition to IPv6 As the Internet's first major batch of IP addresses runs out, organizations worldwide are test driving a new system starting this week. CNET's Molly Wood explains what the transition to IPv6 means. Continue reading