Nov 26 China's Internet 'Hijacking': Experts Take Your Questions By Jenny Marder // In April, Web traffic from tens of thousands of computer networks, including the U.S. Defense Department, the U.S. Senate and NASA, were diverted through China. A congressionally chartered panel concluded last week that China's state-based telecommunications company, China Telecom,… Continue reading
Nov 26 Channeling Einstein and Bending Time Inside a lab in Boulder, Colo., James Chou turns a crank underneath a table, raising one clock 33 centimeters higher than another, identical clock. As the table moves, the tick rate speeds up by 3.5 trillionths of a second. Continue reading
Nov 25 Study Suggests Simple Fix to Help Women Succeed in Science Students attend a 'Science Careers in Search of Women' event at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. (Argonne National Laboratory) A simple 15-minute writing exercise could help young women succeed in math and science classes, according to a study released… Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Space Shuttle Program Winds Down as Era of Privatized Spacecraft Dawns As NASA's space shuttle program comes to an end after decades of service, private companies are looking to fill the void. Judy Woodruff looks at the future of space exploration with science correspondent Miles O'Brien. Continue watching
Nov 24 Watch Louisiana Official: Oil Spill Claims Process 'Cumbersome, Complicated' The window for short-term compensation claims to BP's $20 billion oil spill disaster fund closed on Tuesday. Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Young, president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, about how Gulf Coast residents and businesses are coping with how the… Continue watching
Nov 24 Universe is Expanding, But Not All of It By Jenny Marder Regarding the expanding universe which recent observations shows is accelerating: I understand that not everything is expanding, just the space between galaxies. Is that correct? If so, why? -- Bill Ellena It's true -- not everything is expanding. The earth… Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Gulf Oil Spill Fund Chief Feinberg Defends Record on Claims Payments Jeffrey Brown speaks with Kenneth Feinberg, the independent overseer of BP's $20 billion oil disaster compensation fund, about how the claims process is proceeding and what he makes of criticism from Gulf Coast residents and business owners. Continue watching
Nov 22 What We're Reading: Jellyfish Stars, Big Hailstorms, Morphing Tumor Cells Brain Tumors Grow Their Own Blood Supply Drugs designed to choke off blood to brain tumors often fail, and two new studies published online in the journal Nature help explain why. Tumor cells may be bypassing the drugs… Continue reading
Nov 21 Radiolab Hosts 'Dress Up' As Science Journalists DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4595qfc4', 'SgO4uNUA0mA', '29'); Radiolab is hard to define. The hour-long radio program, co-hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and produced by WNYC in New York, draws on philosophy, literature, popular culture, and even religion to explain… Continue reading
Nov 19 Ancient Volcano Holds Clues to Earth's Deeper Mysteries In a landscape of rolling hills and flat cow fields, Mole Hill Mountain is a peculiar sight. Jutting severely above the west Virginia countryside, it is an outlier; it is Harrisonburg's sore thumb. Mole Hill is the remnant… Continue reading