Mar 06 Without these ancient cells, you wouldn’t be here By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Without the "billion billion billion" Prochlorococcus, a plant-like bacteria in the ocean, Earth would not have the oxygen we breathe today. But the more scientists study about these diverse organisms, the less they know, says Penny Chisholm, an oceanographer at… Continue reading
Feb 26 Reporter turns in article about procrastination on time By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy We all procrastinate. We put things off we know we shouldn't - then scramble to get them done. But is it a fault of our environment? Or a trait for which we are hard-wired?… Continue reading
Feb 19 Physicist-turned-filmmaker captures seven years of ‘Particle Fever’ By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Theoretical physicist David Kaplan spent seven years filming the hunt for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. “Particle Fever” captures the sheer excitement the moments before the collider first turned on and the distress in the… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch From ballet shoes to human tissue, printing ideas into 3-D reality By PBS News Hour With the push of a button – plus a lot of design work and hours of waiting – the emerging technology of 3-D printing can produce food, plastic phone accessories, even human tissue. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores how businesses… Continue watching
Feb 12 The highest tech Cheez Whiz you’ve ever seen By Miles O'Brien 3-D printers will never serve up a rare juicy steak, a baked potato or the salad the “Food-a-Rac-a-Cycle” can, but before too long, they might be able to produce “Earl Grey tea – hot,” as the Replicator does for Captain… Continue reading
Feb 06 What Hawking meant when he said ‘there are no black holes’ By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Last week, Stephen Hawking declared "there are no black holes." What exactly that means has physicists scratching their heads. The problem is 40 years of paradoxes as scientists try to understand how black holes seem to break two rules of… Continue reading
Jan 29 Betting on the Super Bowl? Get math on your side By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy This Sunday, millions of football fans will cheer for the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl and more bets will be placed on the Super Bowl than on any other single-day sporting event. But professional sports… Continue reading
Jan 22 What a glowing green worm can teach us about our immune systems By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Dennis Kim, associate professor of biology at MIT, spends his days carefully raising worms that are no bigger than a comma. The students in his lab feed them, watching them grow and multiply on petri dishes that sit in a… Continue reading
Jan 09 From jetpacks to wolf innards, see science’s really awesome stuff By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy YouTube science will keep you entertained. Continue reading
Jan 08 From jetpacks to wolf innards, see science’s really awesome stuff By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy If you've been trapped inside these past few days while the polar vortex swooped through North America, you've probably burned through your bookmarked YouTube clips and binge-watched "Breaking Bad" on Netflix. We don't blame you. But next time you're holed… Continue reading