Jan 31 How Wired Are Egyptians? By Evan Conway With social media helping organize the throngs of protesters taking to the streets of Egypt, we spoke with Mohammed el-Naway of North Carolina's Queens University of Charlotte, author of "Islam Dot Com," for some insight on social media… Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch In Egypt, Social Media Tools Act as Protest Catalyst Despite Government Meddling In Egypt, Social Media Tools Act as Catalyst… Continue watching
Jan 31 New Government Guidelines on Salt Intake: Are They Achievable? Federal guidelines on what Americans should -- and should not -- be eating were released on Monday. Among them: reduce daily salt intake to less than 2,300 milligrams; less than 1,500 mg if you're 51 and older, according the… Continue reading
Jan 31 Mars Rover Overbudget, Long-Lasting Dispersants and Dancing Brittle-Stars By Jenny Marder The Brittle-Stars Danced. The Stingray Smoked a Pipe. Sea creatures with bodies like snakes and heads like sea urchins. Monkeys with Lollipop Paws. Dancing brittle-stars. A wonderful, whimsical article on the connection between nonsense verse and biology and… Continue reading
Jan 28 The day the world witnessed a nightmare By Miles O'Brien Editor's note: As we mark the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, we return to this column by NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien. This piece originally ran on Jan. 28, 2011. I was fast asleep when… Continue reading
Jan 28 One Year Later, Strong Sales for iPad As New Competitors Eye Market By kmoodley, Hari Sreenivasan While Steve Jobs' decision to take medical leave from Apple marked a shakeup in its leadership, it's clear that his company is still in good shape. That's evidenced as we mark one year since the introduction of the iPad… Continue reading
Jan 27 Tools Hold Clues to Early Human Migration Out of Africa A large sampling of ancient stone tools unearthed from a once-fertile area in the Persian Gulf Basin may indicate that early humans migrated from Africa much earlier than previously thought. The artifacts, dug up from the Jebel Faya… Continue reading
Jan 27 Astronomers Say They’ve Found Oldest Galaxy Yet Hubble has peered back into the far-ancient past and spotted a tiny galaxy of blue stars, possibly the oldest ever seen, researchers reported in the journal Nature. In images, it's underwhelming - just a faint smudge of light. Continue reading
Jan 25 What is a Neutrino…And Why Do They Matter? By Jenny Marder Neutrinos are teeny, tiny, nearly massless particles that travel at near lightspeeds. Born from violent astrophysical events like exploding stars and gamma ray bursts, they are fantastically abundant in the universe, and can move as easily through lead as we… Continue reading
Jan 24 What We’re Reading: Giant Crayfish, Wacky Weather and Geomagic Squares Giant Crayfish Found in Tennessee is new Species A new species of crayfish was spotted climbing out from under a rock in Tennessee, according this Reuters story. It is five inches long -- that's twice the size of… Continue reading