Feb 07 Testing New Tools to Quash Bed Bugs Bed bugs are survivors. They grow as large as ladybugs and can live a year without eating. They move from room to room and leave itchy, bloody welts on skin when they bite. And they wreak havoc on… Continue reading
Feb 06 The Other Side of the Sun Two solar probes have beamed back the first full images of the sun. The identical twin STEREO spacecraft were launched in 2006, and moved into orbiting positions at opposite sides of the sun on Sunday. NASA has combined… Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us New Planets -- 1,200 of Them Perhaps you learned a mnemonic device such as the one above to help remember the planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. -- and their order away from the sun. Turns out, we're going to need a longer mnemonic after the… Continue watching
Feb 03 On Mars, Shifting Sand Dunes Surprise Scientists A sand dune on Mars changes over the course of two seasons. (Image courtesy Science/AAAS). A Texas-sized field of sand dunes around Mars's north pole -- long thought to be a static, unchanging remnant of the planet's more active… Continue reading
Feb 03 Searching for the Source of Phantom Sounds By Jenny Marder A Georgetown neuroscientist's theory on the origins of tinnitus, the phantom ringing that plagues millions of Americans and countless military veterans. Continue reading
Feb 02 Tracking the Egypt Crisis via Google, News Curation Tools By News Desk After a widespread shutdown of Internet and mobile phone service in Egypt as street protests intensified last week, there were reports Wednesday that Web access was restored in the country. Google's Transparency Index has been tracking web traffic to… Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch Frontline: U.S. Needs More Competent Pathologists for Autopsies Frontline explores the patchwork system of death investigations in the U.S. Varying greatly from the high-tech operations depicted in popular crime shows, these investigations often lack uniform standards, oversight and trained doctors. Watch a preview of an episode airing Tuesday… Continue watching
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