Nov 24 Watch Louisiana Official: Oil Spill Claims Process ‘Cumbersome, Complicated’ The window for short-term compensation claims to BP's $20 billion oil spill disaster fund closed on Tuesday. Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Young, president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, about how Gulf Coast residents and businesses are coping with how the… Continue watching
Nov 24 Universe is Expanding, But Not All of It By Jenny Marder Regarding the expanding universe which recent observations shows is accelerating: I understand that not everything is expanding, just the space between galaxies. Is that correct? If so, why? -- Bill Ellena It's true -- not everything is expanding. The earth… Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Gulf Oil Spill Fund Chief Feinberg Defends Record on Claims Payments Jeffrey Brown speaks with Kenneth Feinberg, the independent overseer of BP's $20 billion oil disaster compensation fund, about how the claims process is proceeding and what he makes of criticism from Gulf Coast residents and business owners. Continue watching
Nov 22 What We’re Reading: Jellyfish Stars, Big Hailstorms, Morphing Tumor Cells Brain Tumors Grow Their Own Blood Supply Drugs designed to choke off blood to brain tumors often fail, and two new studies published online in the journal Nature help explain why. Tumor cells may be bypassing the drugs… Continue reading
Nov 21 Radiolab Hosts ‘Dress Up’ As Science Journalists DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4595qfc4', 'SgO4uNUA0mA', '29'); Radiolab is hard to define. The hour-long radio program, co-hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and produced by WNYC in New York, draws on philosophy, literature, popular culture, and even religion to explain… Continue reading
Nov 19 Ancient Volcano Holds Clues to Earth’s Deeper Mysteries In a landscape of rolling hills and flat cow fields, Mole Hill Mountain is a peculiar sight. Jutting severely above the west Virginia countryside, it is an outlier; it is Harrisonburg's sore thumb. Mole Hill is the remnant… Continue reading
Nov 18 What We’re Reading: Venomous Snakes, Urban Gardens and Antimatter Extragalactic Expat: Newfound Exoplanet Likely Came from Another Galaxy This week, the journal, Science has a study on an exoplanet more massive than Jupiter that came from another galaxy and then got consumed by ours. It's the first… Continue reading
Nov 18 ‘Night at the Museum?’ Chicago Resident Settles in for a Month Some nights, Kate McGroarty slept in a German submarine. Other nights, in a giant hamster wheel. Earlier this fall, the 24-year-old Chicago resident beat more than 1,000 applicants to win the "Month at the Museum" contest… Continue reading
Nov 17 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in Danger, International Commission On the Hot Seat The Atlantic bluefin tuna has been devastated to near extinction by overfishing, pollution and lagging confidence in the agency tasked with protecting it. Conservationists have slammed the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas for mismanaging the… Continue reading
Nov 17 Introducing an All New Science Page It's official: our revamped Science page has launched. Straight from the newsroom, here's a primer on what you'll get: DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4574qfc4', '2-MY57RBnz8', '29'); We'll be featuring the reports from our science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, along with online… Continue reading