Nov 19 SciDay: Climate Report So Bad That Future Is ‘Hard to Describe’ A major new report by the World Bank predicts devastating malnutrition from depleted crop yields and rising seawater causing damaging floods with the poorest nations at the most risk if temperatures warm by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2… Continue reading
Sep 17 It’s a Cub! National Zoo Celebrates Panda’s Birth EmbedVideo(4474, 482, 304); Mei Xiang, the 14-year-old giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, gave birth to her second cub on Sept 16. The cub does not yet have a name and will not be on display for… Continue reading
Sep 12 Apple Unveils iPhone 5 Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during today's Apple event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on September 12, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. The newest iteration of the iPhone will be thinner,… Continue reading
Aug 05 Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Surface of Mars After a 354 million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its rover Curiosity succeeded in a risky, sophisticated landing on the surface of Mars, and began beaming back photos of its own shadow against the soil of its… Continue reading
Jul 31 Civic Startups Introduce New Technology to Government EmbedVideo(4022, 482, 304); Former congressional aide Marci Harris was frustrated with the way information and messages flooded into the office of Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and got lost. In 2010, she left to solve government's biggest problems. "The… Continue reading
Jul 20 How Smart Are Smart Meters? For the past few years, activists of various stripes -- environmentalists, liberals, some tea party folks, and others -- have been protesting the installation of smart meters in Northern California and elsewhere. The meters send a wireless radio signal to… Continue reading