Mar 31 Patchwork Nation: Ohio’s Broadband Availability vs. Affordability By Dante Chinni The state of Internet connectivity in the U.S. has been a big story the past few weeks. Officials everywhere from the Federal Communications Commission to Google are looking to improve America's high-speed networks. But what exactly do the… Continue reading
Mar 31 Wednesday: Obama to Open Areas for Offshore Drilling; 12 Killed in Russia President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose lifting a long-standing ban on some offshore oil and natural gas drilling, a move that would open parts of the Atlantic coastline, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's north coast to exploration. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch Obama Eyes Energy Development in Drilling Plan; Opponents Point to Alternatives Jeffrey Brown gets two views on how President Obama's new plan for coastal oil and gas drilling could affect U.S. energy policy and the environment from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin. Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch Obama Proposes Lifting Coastal U.S. Drilling Bans President Obama announced plans to lift the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico. Kwame Holman reports on the reaction to the president's proposal in Washington. Continue watching
Mar 30 World’s Largest Particle Collider Sees First Successful Smash By Lea Winerman Scientists in Geneva fired up the world's most powerful particle-smashing machine Tuesday, beginning a run that they hope will provide insight into fundamental questions about what makes up the universe. "This opens the door to a… Continue reading
Mar 29 NewsHour Plus ‘This Week In Space’ Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars By Chris Amico, Miles O'Brien Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space (flight) for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus. O'Brien catches us up on… Continue reading
Mar 26 Scientists Create Tiny ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Scientists have created an "invisibility cloak" that can hide a tiny object from infrared light. Continue reading
Mar 26 The Things America Will Do for Google’s High Speed Internet There are no concrete numbers, no official announcement date, not even a clear number of winners. But still, it's Google, and the news that the internet search giant will build "ultra-high speed broadband networks" in at least one community… Continue reading
Mar 25 NewsHour Plus Wired Check 4G, ‘Flutter Tests’ and March Madness By Hari Sreenivasan Welcome to another episode of “NewsHour Plus” where we see what is bubbling up in the world of technology and science. We recently talked to Mark McClusky, a senior editor at Wired in San Francisco. He tells… Continue reading
Mar 25 Fossil Points to Unknown Human Species European researchers have found a 40,000-year-old shard of pinkie bone that may be evidence of a previously unknown human species. The finding, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature, adds a new twist to the evolving story… Continue reading