May 02 How Connecting 7 Billion to the Web Will Transform the World EmbedVideo(6360, 482, 304); Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen call the Internet "the world's largest ungoverned space," a space that is increasingly growing. The tech moguls outline their vision of a world universally connected to the Internet… Continue reading
Apr 22 Seattle’s Bullitt Center Bills Itself as ‘World’s Greenest Office Building’ Seattle's Bullitt Center bills itself as the world's greenest office building for its local and sustainable materials. Video courtesy of KCTS9/Earthfix Before skyscrapers, Seattle's waterfront held little more than tide flats edged with evergreen forests. Those forests ran off the… Continue reading
Apr 16 What Investigators Look for as They Comb Evidence in Boston Bombing By Jenny Marder Investigators study the scene on Boylston Street at the site of the second bomb explosion. Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. A day after two blasts rocked the Boston Marathon finish line, investigators are scrambling to unearth… Continue reading
Apr 02 Obama Reveals Brain Mapping Project EmbedVideo(6101, 482, 304); President Barack Obama describes a new brain mapping initiative today in a speech from the White House. President Barack Obama unveiled the BRAIN Initiative today, a new collaborative effort to map the human brain and better… Continue reading
Mar 14 Strong Signs of Higgs Discovery By Ray Suarez A representation of the innerworkings of the Atlas particle detector painted on one of the walls at the CERN campus in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images. New results from Geneva's Large Hadron Collider "strongly indicate" that scientists have… Continue reading
Mar 14 Geeking Out on Pi Day: For the Love of Pi and the Tao of Tau Young fans prepare for the Pi Procession at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, holding handmade signs with a digit in pi’s numerical sequence. Photo courtesy the Exploratorium. March 14 is Pi Day, the official celebration of the mathematical… Continue reading
Mar 12 How Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA? On tonight's PBS NewsHour, Correspondent Spencer Michels and I report on a massive, groundbreaking study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco, which one day may shed light on the genetic roots of health… Continue reading
Mar 12 What Blood, Spit and a Data Bank Can Tell Us About Disease Willie Mae Washington, 92, and her daughter Ida are among the 15,000 women in the Oakland area participating in a study on genetic links to diseases like cancer. Photo by Robert Durell. A giant data bank containing genetic… Continue reading
Feb 26 The Hidden Lives of Wolves By Terence Burlij From 1990 to 1996, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived in a tented camp on the edge of Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, where they observed and studied the behavior and social hierarchy of a pack of gray wolves, known as… Continue reading
Feb 15 Know Your Terms: Shooting Stars, Dirty ‘Snowballs’ and Space Rocks on Earth Enjoying the bright Moon's absence from early morning skies, observers around the world reported lovely displays during the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked Aug. 11 and 12, 2012. Photo by Katsuhiro Mouri & Shuji Kobayashi/NASA. Asteroids, comets - they're… Continue reading