May 18 Astronauts Complete Final Spacewalk of Hubble Repair Mission By PBS News Hour The fifth and final spacewalk of NASA's final Hubble repair mission went smoothly Monday, and ended with astronauts John Grunfeld and Andrew Feustel completing all of the necessary repairs on the telescope. Continue reading
May 15 Researchers Mine Cell Phone Data for Insight Into Human Behavior By Admin, PBS News Hour In 2007, the number of cell phone accounts worldwide passed 3.3 billion -- half the number of people on the planet. Continue reading
May 14 Watch Inspired by Soldier Son, Father Develops Military Robots After the death of his son in the Iraq war, the father of a soldier formed a company that manufactures military robots. Tom Bearden reports. Continue watching
May 12 Maya Lin: Extended Interviews Jeffery Brown's profile of Mya Lin from Tuesday's program will be posted in Art Beat soon. Below are two extended interviews with Lin. Continue reading
May 11 Watch Atlantis Embarks on Last Hubble Telescope Repair Mission The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Monday on the fifth and final mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The crew will add a new camera and make other changes. Spencer Michels reports. Continue watching
May 07 Q&A: Gene Sequence ‘Bank’ Helps Scientists Decipher H1N1 Flu By PBS News Hour Within days of the first swine flu case confirmation in California last month, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control mapped the virus's genetic code and posted the sequence in a publicly available database for other researchers to examine. Continue reading
May 05 Benefits of Shutdown Debated as Mexico City Lumbers Back to Life By PBS News Hour Senior correspondent Ray Suarez is in Mexico City to report on the H1N1 flu virus outbreak. In this reporter's notebook that he filed Monday, he reports on the huge city coming back to life after a days-long shutdown aimed at… Continue reading
May 01 Watch As H1N1 Flu Spreads, Researchers Rush to Analyze Strain After a report from Betty Ann Bowser on the CDC's latest efforts to stop the spread of the H1N1 flu, Margaret Warner talks to health experts about what's being done to better understand how the virus works and why it… Continue watching
Apr 29 Climate Studies Suggest Need for Drastic Cut in Fossil Fuels By Admin, PBS News Hour In order to limit the damage from global warming, the world can use only about one quarter of its known fossil fuel reserves, according to two new research studies. Continue reading
Apr 28 Researchers Prepare for Possible Swine Flu Vaccine By PBS News Hour U.S. researchers are preparing for possible development of a vaccine for the H1N1 strain of swine flu now racing around the globe, but say a vaccine would still take months to produce, test and distribute. Continue reading