Apr 24 The ‘Commanding General of the Solar Army’ wants to make fuel from sunlight By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The "Commanding General of the Solar Army" wants you -- to know how the sun can make cheap fuel for your car. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch As time dwindles, search for Flight 370 shifts nearly 700 miles following new data By PBS News Hour A new discovery of debris shifted the search for the missing Malaysian airliner hundreds of miles northeast, three weeks after the jet disappeared. But time is fading before potential pings from the aircraft’s black box will end. Hari Sreenivasan turns… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch atoms as they ‘hula hoop’ inside a molecule By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Have you ever seen molecules bond, break or hula hoop? Chemist Ara Apkarian has. He and his team at the University of California Irvine are developing the chemiscope, a laser-powered device to record images at a molecular level. The lasers… Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Japan considers energy future after Fukushima By PBS News Hour A disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, has greatly affected how Japanese citizens feel about that energy source. Polls suggest that 80 percent of voters now oppose nuclear power in Japan. But walking away… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien on moving forward after an accident led to amputation By PBS News Hour Miles O'Brien has traveled the world for the NewsHour, often to dangerous places, such as his recent trip to the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Last month, an injury during another reporting trip in the Philippines became life-threatening and… Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch Fishing for data in the radioactive waters off Fukushima By PBS News Hour With help from fisherman and citizen scientists, researchers in Japan and the U.S. are tracking the nucleotides in the ocean creatures who swim in the plume of water tainted with radiation from Fukushima. Their research is part of a long-term… Continue watching
Feb 26 Regarding Miles O’Brien’s ‘new reality’ By News Desk Like everyone else, we are amazed by Miles’ determination to soldier on, in spite of his life-changing accident. We are prepared to assist him every way we can, so our viewers will continue to benefit from his great intelligence and… Continue reading
Feb 13 EPA contaminated by conflict of interest By Travis Daub In September 2010, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency came to a startling conclusion: Even a small amount of a chemical compound commonly found in tap water may cause cancer. More than 70 million Americans drink traces of chromium every… Continue reading