Oct 31 Watch NASA Announces Repair Plans for Aging Hubble Telescope NASA announced Tuesday that it would send a final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, tentatively in 2008, to extend the life of the orbiting observatory to at least 2013. Hubble's senior project scientist discusses the history and future… Continue watching
Oct 30 Global Warming Could Significantly Impact World Economy, Study Says By Admin, PBS News Hour Unchecked global warming could impact the world economy on a scale comparable to world wars and the Great Depression, a report issued Monday by the British government says. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch NextFest Unveils High-tech Tools and Toys With more than 130 exhibits from scientists, researchers and inventors around the globe, NextFest brings its vision of a new world's fair to New York City. The NewsHour's economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the high-tech tools and toys of… Continue watching
Oct 19 Scientists Create ‘Invisibility Cloak’ to Shield Objects from Microwaves By PBS News Hour A team of American and British researchers announced Thursday that it developed the first working "invisibility cloak" for objects that enables them to deflect microwaves. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Roger Kornberg Joins Father as Nobel Laureate The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Roger Kornberg of Stanford University for his work on how cells use information in genes to produce proteins. He and his father Arthur Kornberg, also a Nobel laureate, discuss their achievements. Continue watching
Oct 02 U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Gene Breakthrough By PBS News Hour Two American scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a new way to turn off the effects of specific genes, a process that has opened new pathways in medical treatment. Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch Mars Rover Begins Exploration of Key Crater The Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of the Victoria Crater on Mars, capturing new images of a 900-meter depression that could reveal information about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. Principal scientist Steve Squyres discusses the mission's… Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch Report Finds Bias Against Women in Science and Engineering A report compiled by the National Academies of Sciences reveals a bias is preventing women from advancing in science and engineering at the rate of their male counterparts. An expert discusses the findings. Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch New High-tech Prostheses Being Developed for Amputees As the number of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with missing limbs rises, researchers are working on developing better high-tech prostheses for amputees. Continue watching
Sep 14 Arctic Ice Melting at Growing Rate, NASA Finds By PBS News Hour NASA-funded studies conducted last year found that sea ice present year-round in the Arctic is melting at a rate of 9 percent per decade, and in two recent summers, the ice was at record lows. Continue reading