• Crackdown on synthetic pot has driven the dangerous drug to the streets

    Crackdown on synthetic pot has driven the dangerous drug to the streets

    Dec 22, 2015 09:24 PM EDT

    ... times. And then I don’t remember anything,” said Molly, a 16 year-old from Maryland who experienced a seizure her first time smoking synthetics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8I71_74qM&feature=youtu.be “I didn’t look it up. I didn’t search about it. I was ...

  • International manhunt underway as inquiry in Paris terror attack widens

    International manhunt underway as inquiry in Paris terror attack widens

    Nov 14, 2015 06:24 PM EDT

    Authorities launched an international search Sunday for a suspect wanted in connection with the wave of coordinated terror attacks that hit several locations in Paris on Friday, killing at least 129 people. A manhunt is underway for Abdeslam Salah, a 26-year-old man born in Belgium, who French officials ...

  • Israel approves 'stop and frisk' policy amid new violence

    Israel approves 'stop and frisk' policy amid new violence

    Oct 18, 2015 07:49 PM EDT

    In an effort to curb a rash of deadly stabbings, the Israeli Cabinet authorized the police on Sunday to 'stop and frisk' individuals on the street, even if there is no indication they are armed. If the bill passes the Israeli parliament, police will be able to "search anyone in ...

  • The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures

    The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures

    Oct 15, 2015 02:19 AM EDT

    https://youtu.be/WY9gkibajnI If you were a child in the '80s or '90s, you knew Sally Ride. By 1963, Russia had launched a woman into space, but America lagged behind. Space travel, like so many occupations, remained a (white) boys club. There were strange, unfounded claims holding women back ...

  • 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

    “Pop music is dead.” You've heard the refrain dropped by nostalgic music lovers at backyard barbecues. And it's no surprise. Everyone thinks the tunes of their generation marked a sort of cultural pinnacle and that music has since become bland. But they’re wrong, according to a new computer program that has systematically charted the evolution...