Oct 03 LIGO gravitational wave discoverers win 2017 Nobel Prize in physics By Nsikan Akpan Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics for leading the projects that discovered gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory. Continue reading
Oct 02 Three Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for research on circadian clocks By Nsikan Akpan Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their research into what controls circadian rhythms. Continue reading
Sep 28 Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they soak up By Teresa Carey Due to human destruction, tropical forests, long considered to be "carbon sinks," now produce more carbon emissions each year than all U.S. cars and trucks combined, according to a study published Thursday in Science. Continue reading
Sep 27 How these 3 experiments went from goose egg to science gold By Rashmi Shivni Science projects that were once admonished for being too quirky, too convoluted or a waste of money get a second chance to prove their worth at Wednesday's Golden Goose Awards. Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 8:25 Why NASA’s Cassini will take a fiery swan dive into Saturn By PBS News Hour Some 800 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn and captured images of its rings and icy moons. After nearly 5 billion miles traveled and 20 years of sending revealing data from the gas giant, Cassini is winding… Continue watching
Sep 12 Watch Could genetically engineered mice reduce Lyme disease? By PBS News Hour Lyme disease has become part of daily life for residents on the rural Massachusetts islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, where the tick population has exploded. Now a scientist at MIT is turning to a different culprit -- infected white-footed… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 6:32 Did climate change make recent extreme storms worse? By PBS News Hour Nature is taking a devastating toll in both the U.S. mainland and in countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where monsoon rains are causing floods and hundreds of casualties. Directly attributing these individual weather events to global warming is a… Continue watching
Aug 29 This New York river dumps millions of fabric microfibers into the ocean daily By Teresa Carey The Hudson River dumps 300 million microfibers into the Atlantic Ocean each day, according to a new study. Invisible to the naked eye, these fibers can cause health problems for animals and humans. Continue reading
Aug 24 Gut microbes found in hunter-gatherers shift with the seasons By Teresa Carey The gut microbes of the Hadza, Tanzanian hunter-gatherers, shift with the seasons, according to a new study. Applied on a longer timescale, these patterns might explain why industrialized populations have less diversity in their gut microbiomes and more chronic disease… Continue reading
Aug 17 5 things you should remember as you prepare for the great solar eclipse By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin If you plan to join the 5,000-year-old tradition of eclipse watching next Monday, here are five things you need to remember. Continue reading