Apr 10 Portals to the Past: Cloning the Original Cherry Blossoms More than 1 million visitors flock to Washington, D.C. each spring to view the cherry trees. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson. Every spring in Washington, D.C., the tree paparazzi come out. As the 3,700 ornamental cherry trees along the National… Continue reading
Apr 03 Sequester Cuts to Science Slow Biomedical Research A scientist from the National Center for Toxicological Research analyzes microarray results to measure and assess the level of genes found in a tissue sample. FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth. Rebecca Riggins, an assistant professor of… Continue reading
Mar 27 School House Rapping With Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA Legendary hip-hop artist raps about science in his new album and brings that message to schools. Upload your own science rap for a chance to win a shout-out from GZA. Details are below. NEW YORK -- In his… Continue reading
Mar 20 100 Years Later, Retracing Shackleton’s Antarctic Trek EmbedVideo(6002, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan interviews Joanne Davies about her plans to trek across Antarctica and finish what Sir Ernest Shackleton started. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic, ill-fated and ultimately… Continue reading
Mar 13 Erin Brockovich: The Real-Life Unhappy Ending By Miles O'Brien On tonight's NewsHour, Miles O'Brien reports on the decline of Hinkley, Calif., the town featured in the movie Erin Brockovich. Here's the not-so-Hollywood version of what really happened in Hinkley and beyond. Continue reading
Mar 06 Protecting the Solar System… From Us Technicians and engineers test the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sept. 3, 2010 inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Photo by NASA. Imagine this crazy scenario: A space vehicle… Continue reading
Feb 27 Shrinking Snow Means Steep Slide for Ski Industry By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Winter sports like skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling all rely on long, snowy winters for a profitable season. But climate change is creating uncertain conditions for winter sports and the industries that surround them. Continue reading
Feb 13 Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout Deborah Rice served as chair of an EPA panel assessing the safety levels of flame retardants in 2007, but her removal from that panel led some to believe that a powerful industry lobbying group had influenced the EPA and unfairly… Continue reading
Feb 06 Air Pollution Boosts a Child’s Chance of Getting Cockroach-Related Asthma Cockroach allergens are a major contributor to asthma, particularly in urban areas. Photo by Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images. In New York City's East Harlem, a startling 19 percent of 5-year-olds have asthma, according to a report from the New York… Continue reading
Jan 30 Scientist Seeks Connection Between Fire and Ice in Greenland At this part of the ice sheet in Greenland, where the loss of winter snow during each melt season exposes dirty bare ice, the surface reflectivity drops from 85 percent to 30 percent, Box found in one of… Continue reading