Oct 07 Watch How many Nobel Prize winners does it take to improve a light bulb? By PBS News Hour The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists who created the revolutionary LED light, which is 20 times more efficient than a standard incandescent bulb. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Jeffrey Brown to talk about the winners and… Continue watching
Oct 07 Nobel Prize in Physics illuminates accomplishment of blue LED inventors By Justin Scuiletti The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to the inventors of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, shining a light on the creation that solved the final puzzle piece to energy-efficient lighting. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain's 'GPS' By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for discovering the brain system that helps people orient themselves. Also, pro-democracy protests seemed to wane in Hong Kong. Talks have begun between the government… Continue watching
Oct 06 Pinpointing brain's inner GPS leads to Nobel Prize in medicine win By Justin Scuiletti The research, started by scientist John O'Keefe in 1971 and continued by the husband-and-wife team of May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser more than 30 years later in 2005, aimed to explore the mechanics of how humans were able to… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90 at her home in Johannesburg. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist used her pen to write damning indictments of South Africa's racial segregation. We look back at Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s 1987… Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 14 Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90 By Margaret Myers Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading
Feb 22 Happy birthday to Renato Dulbecco, cancer researcher extraordinaire By Dr. Howard Markel Every elementary school student knows that Feb. 22 is George Washington's birthday. Far fewer (if any) know that it is also the birthday of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Renato Dulbecco. While not the father of his country -- he… Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch Wednesday, December 11, 2013 We look at the budget compromise to end the fiscal fight in Congress. Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch Nobel economist Robert Shiller on how the stock market reflects psychology Economist Robert Shiller wins Nobel Prize for his skeptical perspective… Continue watching