Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future By Frank Bi, Joshua Barajas In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a… Continue reading
Apr 24 Gene therapy shows promise to help people regrow auditory nerve cells By Robert Pursell A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse hearing loss and deafness. This may be music to the ears of the roughly 300,000 patients across the globe that depend on cochlear implants to hear. Australian researchers… Continue reading
Apr 17 Americans predict what the future looks like for technology By Colleen Shalby Over the past 50 years, Americans have witnessed the first man walk on the moon, the birth of the Internet, cell phones, large and small and large again. What will the future of technology and science hold in the next… Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch Solar-powered plane revealed in Switzerland By PBS News Hour Following 12 years of research and testing, designers and pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg debuted a huge solar-powered plane in Switzerland this week. The plane, which boasts a wingspan wider than a 747's, is covered in more than 17,000… Continue watching
Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier By Margaret Myers Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… Continue reading
Mar 19 Losing sleep can lead to brain damage, scientists warn By Justin Scuiletti Research published in the Journal of Neuroscience Tuesday claims that chronic sleep loss can lead to a permanent loss of brain cells -- nullifying any hope to “make up” for lost sleep. Continue reading
Mar 17 After 1,600 years frozen, Antarctic moss shows ‘unprecedented’ survival By Justin Scuiletti A moss plant that spent around 1,600 years under Antarctic ice has been revived by scientists and is growing anew in a case of “unprecedented millennial-scale survival.”… Continue reading
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 07 Watch In search of a cure, scientists look for where HIV hides By PBS News Hour While scientists and doctors have hopes of helping the 34 million people infected with HIV live disease-free, some basic questions remain about the virus, like where it hides in the human body. Special correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the latest… Continue watching
Feb 05 Enhanced hearing in adult ‘blind’ mice provides future hope for human sensory enhancements By Justin Scuiletti A new study shows that the brains of adult mice could be rewired after the rodents received temporary vision loss. Continue reading