Apr 27 Watch Sony PlayStation System Hacking Incident Highlights Web-Security Gaps Ray Suarez discusses the Sony PlayStation data breach with Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen. Continue watching
Apr 27 You Talk To Endeavour: Ask NASA Crew Questions for a LIVE Interview By News Desk *Update, May 17 | * - The live interview has been moved up to occur between 6 and 6:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 19. Updated May 9 | NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle… Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch You Talk to Endeavour: Ask NASA Crew Questions for a LIVE interview From Space Astronauts will answer your questions in a LIVE interview, on Monday, May 2 at 2:15 pm EST… Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch Many Gulf Coast Residents Still Frustrated by Handling of BP Oil Spill Tom Bearden reports from the Gulf on residents' attitudes. Continue watching
Apr 26 Just Ask: Why Does Antimatter Matter? By Jenny Marder The STAR detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This week, a team of researchers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory announced they had discovered helium's twin particle, antihelium-4, the heaviest antimatter nucleus observed yet. So what does that mean, and why do… Continue reading
Apr 25 With the Space Shuttle Retiring, Dream Chaser Aims to Fill the Gap *Graduate student Drew Gottula tests Dan Anderson's ability to reach the controls in the cockpit while simulating g-forces during takeoff.* In the basement of the aerospace engineering department at the University of Colorado, a team of graduate students sit… Continue reading
Apr 25 What We're Reading: Human Brain Map, PhillieBot and 'Brain Time' Can Fear Slow Time? When David Eagleman fell from the roof of an Albuquerque construction site, time seemed to slow down. Now 39, and an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor University, he is studying the brain's biological… Continue reading
Apr 22 Earth Day: Around the Nation Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, one year after an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. leaked 100,000 barrels of oil into the ocean. At the time, it was the largest oil spill in… Continue reading
Apr 22 Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Supernova's Insides Imagine being able to see inside a star during the moments before it explodes. In the National Science Foundation's* latest Science Nation piece, Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien shows us how Princeton University astrophysicist Adam Burrows uses computer generated,… Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch Technology Failures, Perils of Deepwater Drilling Among Gulf Oil Spill's Lessons In his new book, "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea," Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach chronicles the 2010 struggle to stop what would become the nation's worst off-shore oil spill. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Achenbach about the battle… Continue watching