Feb 15 Astronomers Discover Solar System That Might Mimic Our Own By PBS News Hour A global team of professional and amateur astronomers has found a solar system thousands of light years away that looks like a scaled-down version of our own. Continue reading
Feb 14 2 Flesh-Eating Dinosaur Species Discovered By PBS News Hour Two new and unusual dinosaur species have been discovered in Africa, scientists announced Wednesday. Continue reading
Feb 11 ‘Bradley Effect’ May Continue to Complicate Election Polls, Researchers Suggest By PBS News Hour Going into the New Hampshire Democratic primary last month, Sen. Barack Obama seemed to have a commanding lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton -- pre-election polls showed him some nine points ahead. Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch Diabetes Study Partially Halted Due to Cardiac Risk A new study on Type 2 diabetes was partially halted after research showed lowering blood sugar levels for some high-risk patients increased their chances of dying from a heart attack. The head of the American Diabetes Association details the surprising… Continue watching
Feb 01 Scientists, Journalists Push for Science-based Election Debate By PBS News Hour With a handful of primaries behind them and Super Tuesday fast approaching, presidential candidates have stumped and debated and cheered until their throats were sore and their voices hoarse. Continue reading
Jan 25 ‘Averaged’ Image Could Boost Computer Face Recognition Accuracy By PBS News Hour A simple process of averaging many photographs of the same person into one composite image could significantly improve the performance of face recognition software used in border security and other applications, new research suggests. Continue reading
Jan 17 Paralyzed Mice Able to Regain Movement, Study Reveals By PBS News Hour The brain is a stubborn organ. When faced with a roadblock, it works to find another way. It fumbles to repair itself. Researchers have found new evidence of the brain's ability to adapt to injuries by studying the spinal cord… Continue reading
Jan 14 Scientists Grow Rat Heart from Transplanted Cells By PBS News Hour Researchers grew beating rat hearts in a lab using heart cells from newborn rats grafted to the scaffolding of hearts from dead rats, according to a study released Sunday. Continue reading
Jan 11 Switchgrass Yields Energy-efficient, Clean Fuel, Study Finds By PBS News Hour Switchgrass, a prairie grass grown on marginal farmland and processed into ethanol, can produce five times more energy than it takes to grow the crop, according to a new study. Continue reading
Jan 10 Do you have any information on white collar jobs such as computer programmers being outsourced? This installment’s “guest vetter” is Martin Neil Baily, now with the Brookings Institution. He was chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and is a certified VKP (very knowledgeable person). If you… Continue reading