Feb 01 Space Shuttle Columbia Disintegrates Upon Re-Entry The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry over Texas Saturday morning moments before its seven-member crew was scheduled to land in Florida. Continue reading
Feb 01 NASA Statement on the Loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia By PBS News Hour The following is the text of a NASA statement on the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Continue reading
Jan 07 Clonaid’s Deadline Passes With No Proof of Human Clone French company Clonaid's self-imposed 10-day deadline for providing DNA proof of the existence of the first human clone passed Tuesday without any new evidence from scientists. Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch You’ve Got E-mail E-mail, used by almost 90 million Americans, has been changing human communication for almost a decade. Terence Smith reports on e-mail and its effects on American culture. Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Water Fight in the Great Lakes Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a fight over water in the Great Lakes. Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch The Cloning Debate A company called Clonaid claims to have produced the world's first cloned human being. Betty Ann Bowser reports. Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch Forests and Fires Terence Smith discusses the administration's approval of a fire fighting method involving logging and thinning of overgrown forests with the vice president of the Wilderness Society and the executive director of the Political Economy Research Center. Continue watching
Dec 11 Stanford University to Create New Stem Cell Lines Stanford University announced on Tuesday that its researchers will work to create new stem cell lines by employing nuclear transfer technology --a process that can be interpreted as cloning. Continue reading
Dec 10 Internet Filters Can Block Health Information, Study Says When Internet filters in schools and libraries are set at their most restrictive levels, they can block some of the health information that young people seek when they go online, according to a study released by the Henry J. Kaiser… Continue reading