Apr 15 Reporter’s Notebook: The BP Oil Spill, One Year Later As the first anniversary of the British Petroleum oil well blowout approaches, Gulf Coast residents are taking stock of what has happened to them and contemplating what the future might hold. NewsHour Correspondent Tom Bearden was on the scene during… Continue reading
Apr 15 Science: If These Teeth Could Talk The microscopic scratches and pits found on ancient teeth can be used to reconstruct the diets of human ancestors and ancient animals, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports in his latest piece for the National Science Foundation's Science Nation.*… Continue reading
Apr 14 ‘Into the Cold’: A Filmmaker’s Trek to the Top of the World EmbedVideo(354, 482, 304); To get to the North Pole, Sebastian Copeland and his partner Keith Heger had to trek 400 miles on foot, scaling high boulders and forging icy rivers -- and all while dragging a 200-pound sled… Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch Into the Cold: A Filmmaker’s Trek to the Top of the World Sebastian Copeland chronicled his journey to the North Pole in his latest documentary. Continue watching
Apr 12 In Moscow, Miles O’Brien Remembers Yuri Gagarin’s Monumental Space Trip EmbedVideo(340, 482, 304); Fifty years ago Tuesday, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space. In the moments before launch, he recorded this message: What can I say to you during these last… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch China Weighs Environmental Concerns Against Economic Growth Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports from Guangdong province in southern China on the clash between the populous nation's economic ambitions and worsening pollution problem. Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Miles in Moscow Remembers First Man in Space Hari interviews Miles, who is in Moscow on Yuri Gagarin and the first human spaceflight. Continue watching
Apr 12 China Series Continues With Pollution, iPhone Workers, Health Care Reports By Mary Jo Brooks The NewsHour continues its series from China this week as special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye looks at workers' rights, environmental concerns and the country's latest attempt at health care reform. Kaye, producer Mary Jo Brooks and cameraman Denis Levkovich traveled… Continue reading
Apr 12 Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise EmbedVideo(325, 482, 304); An average of 155 million tweets are posted on the social networking site Twitter each day, the social media giant tweeted last week. In just one minute, an average of 35 hours of… Continue reading
Apr 12 Quiz: NASA Announces New Homes for Space Shuttle Fleet By Larisa Epatko NASA marked the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of the first human in space -- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 -- by naming the final destinations of its retiring space shuttle fleet. Continue reading