Jul 04 Watch Deep Impact An immense flash of light marked the crash of a NASA probe into comet Tempel 1 early Monday morning. A flyby spacecraft recorded images of the flying dust, gas and other debris that mission scientists hope will answer basic questions… Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch Extended Interview: Irving Weissman Dr. Irving Weissman, a Stanford University professor and cofounder of the biotech company StemCells Inc., is working on inserting human nerve cells into mice to investigate how human brain cancers form. The following is an extended interview with Weissman. Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch Extended Interview: Eugene Redmond Dr. Eugene Redmond, professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine, has been working on adding human nerve cells into monkeys as part of the search for a cure for Parkinson's disease. The following is an extended… Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch Extended Interview: Stuart Newman Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, tried to patent a human-ape chimera as a way to draw attention to the practice of blending genes. The patent was denied, which was what they wanted,… Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch Extended Interview: Hank Greely Hank Greely, a law professor at Stanford, heads a group of ethicists who are keeping track of Dr. Irving Weissman's work transferring human brain cells to mice. The following is an extended interview with Greely. Continue watching
Jun 30 NASA Plans July 13 Shuttle Launch By PBS News Hour The space shuttle Discovery is set to rocket into orbit on July 13, two-and-a-half years after the Columbia disaster claimed the lives of seven astronauts, NASA announced Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch NASA Spacecraft Set for Collision with Comet in July NASA plans to smash a probe into a comet the size of Washington, D.C. on July 4 in order to better understand the origins and makeup of comets, and by extension the early history of the solar system. Jeffrey Kaye… Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch Tornado Science Scientists from the Center for Severe Weather Research track storms in western Kansas' "Tornado Alley" in an effort to improve their understanding of the process of tornado formation so that better predictions may someday be made. Continue watching
Jun 27 Court Rules on Internet File-Sharing, High-Speed Lines By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court handed down two Internet-related decisions on its last day of the session Monday, one dealing a blow to companies that encourage file-sharing and the other impacting high-speed Internet access over cable lines. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch Human Exposure to Chemicals Advancements in bio-monitoring are allowing researchers to better detect the levels of chemicals that people's bodies pick up from everyday life. Continue watching