Oct 07 Thursday: Toxic Sludge Reaches Danube; Karzai Opens Peace Council The toxic red sludge that has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week -- the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks -- reached parts of the Danube River on Thursday, an emergency… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch EU Spokesman: Hungary Has Requested Sludge Clean-up Help Margaret Warner speaks with Joe Hennon, a European Commission spokesman, about the health and environmental risks of the toxic red sludge spreading in Hungary. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch In Hungary, Toxic Red Sludge Reaches Danube River The toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary has reached the Danube River, raising concerns of more widespread environmental damage in Europe. Margaret Warner has more. Continue watching
Oct 06 Report: Government Underestimated, Underreported Oil Spill Size By Lea Winerman According to the National Oil Spill Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public the worst-case estimates of the leak in late April or early May. That… Continue reading
Oct 06 Toxic Sludge From Hungary Spill Coats Villages, Threatens Danube By Talea Miller A red-tinged toxic sludge has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week - the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks in Ajka. The images have been both striking and shocking… Continue reading
Oct 06 Carbon-Bonding Tool Nabs Nobel Chemistry Prize Updated 12:51 p.m. ET | Carbon took center stage again Wednesday as three pioneering chemists won the Nobel for their development of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, a form of carbon-carbon bonding. The molecular tool, described by the committee as "great… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Graphene: Nobel Winners’ Thin, Mighty Material Holds Much Promise Two Russian-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on graphene, a form of carbon just one atom thick, but 100 times stronger than steel. The NewsHour's new science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, has the details. Continue watching
Oct 05 Google, Apple Among Those Vying for Living Room Media Dominance The idea of merging the Web and television was so powerful in the late 90s that the U.S. government classified it as a weapon, but the promise has since suffered "years of false-starts and not-quite-there implementations." As people… Continue reading
Oct 05 Developers of Ultra-Thin, Super-Strong Carbon Win Physics Nobel Two Russian scientists will share $1.5 million and the Nobel Prize in physics for their "groundbreaking experiments" on the world's thinnest and strongest material, graphene. Graphene is just one atom thick, but 100 times stronger than the steel, and… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch In Middle East, Coalition Aims to Ease Tension Over Water Resources As the Israelis and Palestinians grapple with direct negotiations for peace, there's another issue that is dividing them: water. Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Middle East. Continue watching