• Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals

    Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals

    Sep 28, 2015 03:00 PM EDT

    ... and physical composition of the planet. It can snap pictures of dust storms and profile the gases in the atmosphere. Its ground penetrating radar can search for ice water trapped underground. And it can analyze minerals deposited on the planet’s rocky surface. As an undergrad in 2011 at the ...

  • This rockstar scientist wrote a song about her friends who died from Ebola

    This rockstar scientist wrote a song about her friends who died from Ebola

    Jun 17, 2015 08:54 PM EDT

    ... the fight against the Ebola virus. The series tackles various aspects of that science: the search for an animal host, efforts to develop a better detection test, model the disease and test for an Ebola vaccine. Watch the series here below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgawtcOBBjr-QxBQBz4r6UBmhds_l6f--

  • Why doesn't FIFA (or anyone) want you to know about the Women's World Cup?

    Why doesn't FIFA (or anyone) want you to know about the Women's World Cup?

    Jun 05, 2015 09:28 PM EDT

    ... FIFA to not have to play the World Cup on a substandard surface. But women do get some special treatment. Apparently FIFA’s gender verification policy has “only ever been applied to women”. Update: FIFA tweeted this response. https://twitter.com/FIFAWWC/status/607023572939214848 https://twitter.com/FIFAWWC/status/607023349047304192

  • Senate expected to act on NSA collection of phone records

    Senate expected to act on NSA collection of phone records

    May 22, 2015 01:39 PM EDT

    ... senators, but they worried that some did not understand "the risk of doing anything other than passing the USA Freedom Act," as one put it. https://youtu.be/QIeK8bGrS6I Video by PBS NewsHour "I am very concerned that the American people will be unprotected if this law expires," Attorney General ...

  • 5 things to know about the NSA court ruling

    5 things to know about the NSA court ruling

    May 08, 2015 02:26 PM EDT

    ... the court did not address was whether the program is constitutional. Other legal cases have argued that it is not. Opponents say the seizure and search of their records from telephone companies violates their expectations of privacy under the Fourth Amendment because the government failed to obtain a search warrant ...

  • Computer scientists prove 80s pop music is boring

    Computer scientists prove 80s pop music is boring

    May 06, 2015 12:57 AM EDT

    ... these chords gave a shade of gritty tension to Blues music and were featured in tracks by Elvis Presley, such as “I Feel So Bad.” https://youtu.be/LL_JvLLPdCs “We see in the ‘60s that the charts were filled with dominant 7th chords, but then they decline and never ...

  • Photos: Massive earthquake strikes Nepal

    Photos: Massive earthquake strikes Nepal

    Apr 26, 2015 06:02 PM EDT

    ... 000 injured. In response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the Nepalese government has set up 16 relief stations across Kathmandu, the New York Times reported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNJIboit5xw The massive quake also set off an avalanche on Mount Everest, which killed at least 18, and injured ...

  • Meet the teen suing Oregon for 'resisting the urgency' of climate change

    Meet the teen suing Oregon for 'resisting the urgency' of climate change

    Apr 18, 2015 05:15 PM EDT

    ... emissions warming the earth and destroying the environment.” Our Children's Trust has backed suits in other states, but none have been successful so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQP1cRcG2HQ An activist since elementary school, Juliana says she's fighting to protect the environment for the future of ...

  • Join PBS NewsHour to discuss 'The Emperor of All Maladies' with Barak Goodman

    Join PBS NewsHour to discuss 'The Emperor of All Maladies' with Barak Goodman

    Mar 27, 2015 07:01 PM EDT

    https://twitter.com/CancerFilm/status/582533682755325952 “What is it that I am fighting?” When Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist and hematologist, was asked this question by a patient, he was struck by his own inability to answer. He realized that, despite cancer’s vast impact and the centuries-long search ...

  • What we know about the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps

    What we know about the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps

    Mar 24, 2015 04:30 PM EDT

    ... aboard Flight 4U 9525. "If our fear are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa," Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said in the statement. https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/580330191475609600 https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/580330322249818113 The plane never issued a distress signal before it crashed, according to the ...