Dec 20 Column: If Tesla was the real visionary, why does Edison get all the glory? By John Wasik He’s our Leonardo, the Shakespeare of invention. Continue reading
Dec 13 20-sided crystal, once thought impossible, found in meteorite By Kristin Hugo Researchers have found an entirely new, extreme type of quasicrystal with an icosahedral -- 20-sided -- symmetry. Continue reading
Dec 09 This jumping robot leaps to new heights By Leigh Anne Tiffany A new primate-inspired robot has a feature that is leaps and bounds above the rest. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch 5:53 Science’s most valuable prize puts spotlight on discovery By PBS News Hour The Breakthrough Prizes honor scientific achievements with the largest cash prizes in the field. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with science correspondent Miles O’Brien for more on this year’s winners. Continue watching
Dec 07 What Amazon’s cashier-free store could mean for millions of workers By Alison Thoet On Monday, Amazon forayed into the brick and mortar grocery industry with the launch of Amazon Go. But the high-tech market could drastically change shopping and eventually eliminate the need for millions of cashiers. Continue reading
Dec 05 The very real consequences of fake news stories and why your brain can’t ignore them By Nsikan Akpan Incidents like the #Pizzagate shooting signify one step in a long, dark trail of real world consequences caused by fake news. Experts explain this history and why these stories are so hard to ignore. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 7:44 California’s ‘Salad Bowl’ is cultivating more than crops By PBS News Hour In California's Salinas Valley, known as the "Salad Bowl of the World,” a push is underway to expand agriculture's adoption of technology. The mobile app HeavyConnect, for example, enables farm managers to track personnel and equipment efficiently. Special correspondent Cat… Continue watching
Nov 29 This innovative buoy could help save some of the rarest whales in the world By Julia Griffin “What we’re really trying to do is let the (fishing and shipping) industries do the work that they do, but do it in such a way that it doesn’t cause a species to go extinct.”… Continue reading
Nov 16 First human treated with CRISPR gene-edited cells in China, report says By Leigh Anne Tiffany For the first time, a cancer patient is being treated with cells altered using a gene editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9. Continue reading
Nov 11 Science and technology under a Trump presidency By Nsikan Akpan, Leigh Anne Tiffany Science, technology and health policy under Donald Trump will feature cuts, but also inescapable progress. Continue reading