Dec 07 Just Ask: What Would a Supersized Atom Look Like? By Jenny Marder If you expanded an atom to the size of a baseball, what would it look like? And how would the inside look if you sliced it open? The nucleus is the atom's central core and contains more than 99.9 percent… Continue reading
Dec 06 What We’re Reading: Arsenic, Lightfoils and Skull-implanted Cameras Arsenic, Bacteria and Alien Life: Lessons from an Internet Frenzy The Guardian has a nice writeup from an astrobiologist on the speculation, media frenzy and false stories that rolled out along with last week's discovery that scientists had found… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch Washington Inmates Help Protect Endangered Frog, Prison Budget As part of our NewsHour Connect series showcasing public media reporting from around the nation, Jule Gilfillan reports for Oregon Public Broadcasting on a program that has inmates working on environmental projects to conserve water and help protect endangered spotted… Continue watching
Dec 02 Miles O’Brien: Exploring the Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi On Thursday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Indonesia on the science and the superstition surrounding the recent eruption of the deadly Mount Merapi volcano. For an inside look, Hari Sreenivasan caught up with O'Brien in Indonesia for… Continue reading
Dec 02 Arsenic and Old Space Thinking: NASA Discovery Spurs New Ideas on Life Scientists found the microbe in California's Mono Lake (Photo Credit:Science/Henry Bortman) A newly discovered microbe that can survive on arsenic rather than phosphorus could change the way scientists think about life on earth and search for life on other… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch Science, Mysticism Meld in Predicting Mount Merapi’s Deadly Eruptions Since October, more than 300 people have been killed by volatile volcano Mount Merapi's eruptions. Miles O'Brien reports from the village of Yogyakarta on the science and superstition surrounding the most-active volcano in Indonesia. Continue watching
Dec 02 China Internet ‘Hijacking’: Your Questions Answered An 18-minute diversion of Internet traffic through China in April has raised security concerns around the world -- especially for governments and people in critical infrastructure. Two experts answered your questions on the Internet security breach. Continue reading
Dec 01 At CERN, Art Collides with Science Inspired by the world's largest particle detector, a young artist found a way to paint a mural of part of Geneva's famous CERN experiment - right on the building itself. Continue reading
Dec 01 Could WikiLeaks Be Stopped? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London on Oct. 23.; Getty photo Update, 3:30 p.m.: Wikileaks says it has been ousted from its Amazon cloud hosting. .bbpBox10058229002272768 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3147857/WL_Hour_Glass.jpg) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid… Continue reading
Nov 30 Just Ask: What Makes Volcanoes Erupt? By Jenny Marder It's time for our weekly Just Ask feature, where the experts tackle your questions on science and technology. John Eichelberger, a volcano expert with the U.S. Geological Survey, answers the question, "Why Does the Earth Have Volcanoes, and… Continue reading