Mar 19 Watch Tiny Technology Holds Big Economic Potential In the latest in a series of reports making sense of the economy, economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the small scale of nanosciences and the big impact they could have on the economy. Continue watching
Mar 18 NCAA Bracketology: The Science Behind March Madness It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Washington. But there are more than a few people turned away from their office windows, preoccupied with a much smaller orange orb. In case you hadn't heard, it's March Madness time. Continue reading
Mar 18 Clean Water’s Ripple Effects in Other Lands By Hari Sreenivasan Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the Rundown to talk about the reporting he's recently done on water issues in Ethiopia -- including the steps one village is taking to address them in a country where perhaps three-quarters of… Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions… Continue watching
Mar 16 FCC Urges 20-Fold Internet Speed Increase in U.S. Broadband Plan By Jason Breslow The Federal Communications Commission formally unveiled Tuesday a sweeping proposal to expand broadband Internet access across the U.S., a critical peg of the Obama administration's efforts to boost the nation's global competitiveness. The FCC proposal calls for connecting… Continue reading
Mar 15 Obama and FCC Betting on Broadband as Stimulus By Chris Amico _pap_embed_custom('news01s3cc0qe29',482,304,""); The Federal Communications Commission and the Obama administration will unveil a plan Tuesday to broaden high-speed Internet access in the United States and encourage telecom companies to provide faster download speeds. The plan comes from a directive in last… Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch Criticism of Climate Change Science Heats Up The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Mar 08 Director of ‘The Cove’ Puts Oscar in Perspective By Arts Desk A wave of new attention is likely to fall on a remote fishing village in Japan after director Louie Psihoyos won the best feature documentary prize for "The Cove" at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday. Continue reading
Mar 05 Newspapers Making Public Data More Understandable for Readers For many citizens, public data often have been difficult to find and decipher. Last year, Data.Gov was launched with the stated purpose of increasing "public access to high-value, machine-readable datasets," part of a wider effort to make government more… Continue reading
Mar 04 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand. Continue reading