Apr 25 Watch Senate Votes to Prevent Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace As research of preventative genetic testing increases, many fear the impact this information can have on employment and health-insurance practices -- leading the Senate to vote Thursday to ban genetic-based discrimination. An expert on genetics examines the issue. Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch Pittsburgh Renews Itself With ‘Green’ Technologies Pittsburgh, once described as the nation's "dirtiest city," is working hard to reverse that image with new energy efficient initiatives. Paul Solman looks at how the Steel City has become reinvigorated by implementing new "green" energy technologies. Continue watching
Apr 25 Social Status is Hard-Wired into the Brain, Study Shows By PBS News Hour Our world is defined by social hierarchies: parent and child, teacher and student, employee and boss. From the playground to the office, our place in the pecking order helps us decide how to behave. Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch In Pittsburgh, Robots Help Rebuild Struggling Economy As Pittsburgh continues to rebuild itself after the loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s, a technology industry is emerging. Tom Bearden reports on how engineers in the city are developing robots for everything from elderly care to… Continue watching
Apr 18 Wal-Mart, Nalgene Pull BPA Items After Report Sparks Concerns By PBS News Hour Retail giant Wal-Mart and water bottle maker Nalgene are taking steps to phase out the use of the plasticizer Bisphenol A, only days after a major report linked the omnipresent chemical to a range of possible hormonal and other health… Continue reading
Apr 16 Researchers Track Global Flu Travel Patterns By PBS News Hour If you live in North America, the flu strain that laid you low last winter likely originated in East or Southeast Asia six to nine months before you caught it, according to a new study of the worldwide circulation of… Continue reading
Apr 11 Scientists Create Plan to Save Madagascar Species By PBS News Hour The island nation of Madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries, but it is rich in one resource -- biodiversity. Perched in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, Madagascar broke from the continent more than 80… Continue reading
Apr 08 After 25 Years, AIDS Vaccine Research Makes Mid-course Correction By PBS News Hour It took 47 years to develop a polio vaccine, 42 to develop a measles vaccine and 105 for typhoid. So historically speaking, at 24 years in, research on the AIDS vaccine is still young. Continue reading
Apr 04 Evidence Shows Earlier Human Arrival in Americas By PBS News Hour A cache of human DNA found in a prehistoric "toilet" suggests that people arrived in the Americas at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Continue reading
Apr 01 Scientists Plot Pollutants’ Path at the Arctic By PBS News Hour The Arctic is a receptacle of the planet's air pollutants -- from forest fires to human-produced carbon dioxide emissions -- and a coordinated international effort is geared toward learning more about pollutants' effects at the top of the globe. Continue reading