Oct 19 Watch Study: Post-Menopausal Hormone Therapy Increases Cancer Risk A new study found that post-menopausal women who use hormone-replacement therapy are at a greater risk of getting aggressive cancers than those who don't. Gwen Ifill gets perspectives on the findings from the lead author of the study, Dr. Rowan… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch Popular Facebook Apps Lack Privacy Protection, Report Finds Report: Top Facebook Apps Lack Privacy Protection… Continue watching
Oct 18 Students Explain Science to President They're too young to vote, but they're already designing cancer-fighting therapies, solar-powered cars and robots to combat distracted driving. One team of students cooked and sold tamales to raise enough money to build a better wheelchair for a classmate… Continue reading
Oct 13 How Many Wind Farms Are in the Works for the U.S.? Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that it will invest in an enormous new project to build an undersea transmission line off the mid-Atlantic coast that could bring energy from offshore wind farms to as many as 1.9 million… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch Obama Administration Lifts Ban on Deep Water Oil Drilling A temporary ban on deep water oil drilling has been lifted. The moratorium was put in place after the BP spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Judy Woodruff talks to reporter Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post for more. Continue watching
Oct 12 Ban Lifted on Deep Water Oil Drilling By Maureen Hoch The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on deep water oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration has been under pressure from business leaders and others… Continue reading
Oct 12 First Satellite Image of Hungary’s Toxic Sludge NASA's Earth Observatory has released this image of the toxic spill in Hungary. The image was taken on Oct. 9. The alumina plant appears along the right edge of both images, and incorporates both bright blue and brick… Continue reading
Oct 07 Stuxnet Has Infected My Reading Ever since I began researching material for a Stuxnet virus segment last week on the Newshour broadcast, I've been fascinated with this little worm, and I can't seem to flip by an article about it without stopping to… Continue reading
Oct 07 Virus-Fungus Combo May Contribute to Honeybee Die-Off Nearly four years after a mysterious die-off began decimating honeybee populations across the United States, researchers believe they may have a lead on a culprit -- or rather, two culprits. A virus and a fungus working together may be behind… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Obama Administration Defends Oil Spill Response After Critical Report A presidential commission has offered some harsh words of criticism of the White House response to the BP oil spill. Ray Suarez talks to David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post for details. Continue watching