Jul 14 Has Google Changed Our Memories? EmbedVideo(1001, 482, 304); We've all been there: you're in a heated debate with a friend about a role one of your favorite actresses played five years back. You struggle for 30 seconds, maybe a minute, to bring the… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Google's Effects on Memory Psychologist Betsy Sparrow tells Hari Sreenivasan about her newest research. Continue watching
Jul 14 Quick Take: The Pentagon's Cybersecurity Plan By Larisa Epatko The Defense Department unveiled its long-awaited strategy for cybersecurity Thursday. The plan is aimed at defending its own computer networks and those of its partners, and developing "robust cyberspace capabilities."… Continue reading
Jul 13 What We're Reading: Superbugs, Second Thumbs and Potato Genomes Worries About a Gonorrhea 'Superbug' Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to the only drugs used to treat it. Resistant strains of the common sexually transmitted disease have failed antibiotic treatment in two cases now -- one in Japan,… Continue reading
Jul 13 Murdoch Halts Bid to Purchase BSkyB as Phone Hacking Fallout Continues Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has dropped its bid to purchase British satellite broadcaster BSkyB in light of the still-unfolding scandal over the use of phone hacking by journalists from News of… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Colorado Kids Act as Citizen Scientists in National Lady Bug Hunt Some Colorado kids have become citizen scientists as part of a nationwide effort to catalog lady bug species. Cornell University scientists are trying to understand why some species have vanished and others have appeared. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports on the… Continue watching
Jul 12 How Do You Hack Into Someone's Voicemail? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr.com/dinomite The scandal that helped shutter Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid and left at least nine News International journalists facing possible criminal charges has brought phone hacking into the spotlight as a… Continue reading
Jul 12 Searching for 'Lost' Ladybugs Flickr @martincron Gail Starr has ladybugs in her ears. Not actual, live, ladybugs, but rather ladybug earrings. She has multiple pairs, many of them gifts from her students. She teaches third grade at Springs Ranch Elementary School, and… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch As Shuttle Retires, What's NASA's New Mission? After 30 years and millions of miles traveled, the 135th and final mission of NASA's space shuttle program blasted off Friday. Ray Suarez discusses the post-shuttle era of space exploration and NASA's future purpose with former astronaut Mae Jemison, former… Continue watching
Jul 11 'Have Wit, Will Travel' By Paul Solman Economics was dubbed "the dismal science" by 19th century English intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The reason: the Reverend Thomas Malthus' grim prediction, around 1800, that population would inevitably outstrip food supply, since the former grows geometrically (1,2,4,8...), the latter, arithmetically (1,2,3,4...). Continue reading