Aug 31 Watch 6:30 Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation By William Brangham, Courtney Norris Alarms are being sounded again about the risks of artificial intelligence after hundreds of OpenAI’s autonomous agents violated restrictions and hacked into another company without being told to do so. Anthropic and Meta have had similar events with their own… Continue watching
Aug 31 Watch 4:57 How NASA's new space telescope could help solve mysteries of dark energy and dark matter By Amna Nawaz, Miles O'Brien, Karina Cuevas, Bridget Craig NASA launched its newest space telescope, undertaking its biggest mission yet to study the universe on a much larger scale. A roughly $4 billion project, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will allow scientists to get panoramic views of space… Continue watching
Aug 30 NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The bus-sized telescope — named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — will take more than three months to reach its destination. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 5:12 Devastating scale of Himalayan floods comes into focus as rescuers arrive By Stephanie Sy, Eliot Barnhart Three days after a catastrophic wall of water, mud and rock tore through Nepal’s Himalayan valleys, the scale of the disaster is still coming into focus. At least 579 people are now confirmed dead, nearly 2,000 remain missing, and the… Continue watching
Aug 28 NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Here's what to know By Don Figer, The Conversation NASA plans to soon launch a new space telescope that will survey a billion galaxies to trace how the universe evolved over time, all courtesy of America’s spy program and decades of research into detector technology. Once in position, it… Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 5:53 Groundbreaking treatments and vaccines offer hope in fight against cancer By William Brangham, Solveig Rennan Sandbulte There have been several promising developments lately in cancer research and treatment, including a new drug approved by the FDA this week for advanced pancreatic cancer. William Brangham reports. Continue watching
Aug 28 WATCH: Trump bestows Artemis II crew with Congressional Space Medal of Honor By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press President Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian whose April lunar flyby set a new distance record for humanity. Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch 8:34 How melting glaciers contributed to the flooding disaster in the Himalayas By Geoff Bennett, Eliot Barnhart The scale of the disaster in the Himalayas is becoming clearer a day after catastrophic flooding tore through parts of Nepal and Tibet. Scientists believe the disaster was likely triggered by the collapse of a glacier, unleashing a torrent of… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch 7:13 How the Mayo Clinic is using improv to engage dementia patients By Megan Thompson The medical community is trying many approaches to help push back against the advance of Alzheimer’s and dementia. One leading institution is taking a different and unconventional approach to supplement the traditional treatments. Special Correspondent Megan Thompson reports for our… Continue watching
Aug 27 Nepal floods highlight increased risks of melting glaciers as Himalayas warm By Sibi Arasu, Associated Press The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists. Continue reading