Dec 09 Cancun Climate Talks Enter Final Days, Report Shows Rapidly Melting Glaciers As global temperatures rise, glaciers are rapidly losing mass, especially in low-lying, arid regions, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Program this week. Glacier melt could sap water resources and cause severe flooding in some… Continue reading
Dec 08 Who Are the ‘Anonymous’ Hackers Supporting WikiLeaks? DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s460aqff1', '5-SmC7fH78M', '29'); A group of hackers from around the globe has launched coordinated attacks in support of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. The attacks have targeted organizations, such as MasterCard, and individuals, including a Swedish… Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch WikiLeaks Finds Itself Target of, Inspiration for Cyber Attacks WikiLeaks has become the target of hackers who oppose its latest release of secret government documents, but some supporters are waging cyber attacks against individuals and companies -- including MasterCard, PayPal and a Swiss bank -- that have severed ties… Continue watching
Dec 08 Private Company SpaceX’s Dragon Space Capsule Launched .bbpBox12536450318860288 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1291318259/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;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 #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Beautiful launch! Dragon is in orbit. Will provide status updates… Continue reading
Dec 08 WikiLeaks’ Supporters Strike Sites WikiLeaks' supporters are striking back at those hampering the controversial site. According to the New York Times: Targets included Mastercard.com, which stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which revoked server space from the group; the online payment service… Continue reading
Dec 07 ‘Education for Innovation’ Town Hall: How Do U.S. Students Stack Up? The NewsHour took part in a special town hall meeting Tuesday on education and innovation. Gwen Ifill and Hari Sreenivasan moderated the event, which included an interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Here's an excerpt of the event:… Continue reading
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