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
Mar 24 NewsHour Plus and Gizmodo Talk iPad and the ‘Cloud’ We're kicking off a new series of conversations called "NewsHour Plus" here on the Rundown that will explore how science and technology intersect with our daily lives. With the April 3 release date for Apple's iPad inching closer, we… Continue reading
Mar 23 Spotz Rows Into History, Raises Thousands for Clean Water Projects Seventy days, five hours and 22 minutes. That's how long it took 22-year-old Katie Spotz to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a high-tech rowboat -- part of a fund-raising effort that also set a new record. Fresh… Continue reading