Jul 19 Watch Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advises U.S. Nuclear Reactor Safety Upgrade The Nuclear Regulatory Commission presented a new set of industry safety recommendations for the U.S. on Tuesday. Gwen Ifill reports on the safety changes sparked by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Japanese coast and triggered a nuclear crisis. Continue watching
Jul 18 What We're Reading: Quantum Quirks, Dying Oaks and Victorian Women By Jenny Marder Raffaello Cargo Module Returned to Shuttle Bay The Atlantis astronauts have loaded nearly three tons of trash and broken hardware onto the Raffaello cargo module and moved it to the shuttle's payload bay in preparation for the… Continue reading
Jul 15 Dawn to Rise Over Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA At 1 A.M. Eastern time on July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will become the first man-made probe… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch Washington, D.C.'s Water Wars A student from Washington, D.C. investigates water quality issues in his hometown. Continue watching
Jul 14 Loss of Top Predators Has Far-Reaching Effects Photo credit: Young aspen trees in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by William Ripple, courtesy of Oregon State University. Sea otters eat sea urchins and sea urchins eat kelp. When sea otters are present, the coastal kelp forests maintain a… Continue reading
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