Jul 04 Chew On This: Muscles Used for Munching Underwent Significant Evolutionary Shift Researcher Nikolai Konow has been studying the mechanics of chewing. Photo via Brown University. Fish do it. Lizards do it. Cows do it. Get your heads out of the gutter, readers. We're talking about chewing. Three years ago,… Continue reading
Jul 04 Oil Spill Cleanup in Yellowstone River, Shinawatra Named Thai Prime Minister Teams of federal and Exxon Mobile workers in Montana are trying to contain and assess the damage from tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil that gushed from a ruptured pipe beneath the banks of the… Continue reading
Jul 01 Hamming Up the Airwaves A battery-powered, five-transmitter simulated emergency radio site at Prospect Park in Littleton, Colorado. Photo by Tom Bearden. When a giant tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., earlier this year, it destroyed more than homes, schools, and businesses. It also destroyed a… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch Are Social Media Services the Next Tech Bubble? The estimated value of tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is soaring, but could another tech bubble be building? Ray Suarez discusses the social media services that are at the center of this question with Fortune magazine's Jessi… Continue watching
Jun 29 Mythbusters' Adam Savage on Finding the Fun and the 'Danger' in Science On Wednesday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at a growing effort to get kids more enthused about science, engineering and math. The movement has been dubbed "Make." The event: the Bay Area Maker Faire, where scientists, engineers and… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch Mythbuster's Savage on Finding the Fun, and the 'Danger,' in Science Encouraging kids to get their hands dirty and embrace a little danger in science. Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch Can DIY Movement Fix a Crisis in U.S. Science Education? Miles O'Brien reports from a gathering in California on a growing movement that embraces the art of making cool things and a quirky do-it-yourself spirit. Supporters see "making" as one way to overcome a crisis in American science and math… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope for Overcoming Impairments Will 'Bionic Bodies' Offer High-Tech Hope to the Disabled?… Continue watching
Jun 28 Tasmanian Devils, Toxic Shampoos and Tracking Sea Turtles Photo by Jamie Muchall via Flickr Creative Commons Tasmanian devils were sitting ducks for deadly cancer Another sad twist to the tale of the endangered Tasmanian devil. Human interference left these animals stripped of genetic diversity and… Continue reading
Jun 27 On Its Final Mission, Atlantis to Help Ready NASA for Post-Shuttle Era Space shuttle Atlantis will haul supplies and a robotic experiment to the International Space Station for its final flight. Continue reading