Nov 08 Watch Live: BP Oil Spill Commission Hearing By News Desk The National Oil Spill Commission is holding two days of public hearings this week into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that triggered the disaster. Officials from BP, Transocean, and Halliburton will be called to answer… Continue reading
Nov 08 Obama in India; BP Oil Spill Hearings Begin; Myanmar’s Junta Holds Election President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pose after a joint press conference at Hyderabad House on Nov. 8, 2010, in New Delhi, India. President Obama is spending a second day in New Delhi, where he is addressing… Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch At Oil Spill Commission Hearing, ‘Rough Day’ for BP, Halliburton, Transocean The lead investigator of the national oil spill commission said there's no evidence of BP trading dollars for safety, but a long list of errors by the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig's operation were aired at a new… Continue watching
Nov 05 Fuel Leak Delays Final Discovery Shuttle Launch, Again Photo credit: NASA The final launch of space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed for the fourth time in as many days Friday, raising questions among some space watchers on when old becomes too old. Two hours into fueling… Continue reading
Nov 05 Track Hurricane Tomas Using Google Earth and tropical storm-tracking data from NASA, we created this interactive map of Hurricane Tomas. Be sure to click on the local webcams to see images of of the Caribbean skies, and any other icon… Continue reading
Oct 29 ‘BigDog’ and the Rise of the Robots On Friday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on our fascination with robots and the efforts underway to make them as human as possible. So just how close are we to being replaced by robots? Observe the case of "… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? How close are we to being replaced by robots? NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on efforts to engineer robots that are eerily similar to humans and animals. Continue watching
Oct 29 What Zombies Can Teach Us About Braaain Science In George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," the dead are reanimated, enraged and hungry. They stumble toward the living, arms outstretched, eating everyone in their path. They show no reason, no pain and no signs of slowing down. Continue reading
Oct 26 Biodiversity Losses are Alarming, but Reversible The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, has been successfully reintroduced to parts of its former habitat. A decade-long effort involving nearly 200 scientists and a colossal database has reached a simple conclusion: conservation works. But there's not enough of… Continue reading