Oct 04 New York City’s Maker Faire Delivers Dazzling Colors, Wacky Inventions By Jenny Marder A multi-functional unicorn shoots fire from its horn while sneezing glitter. A six-person ensemble plays instruments made of saw blades, propane tanks, automotive parts, and simple household objects. Cars shaped like cupcakes made of reused electric-car parts and… Continue reading
Sep 27 Why Pandas Have Trouble Getting Pregnant EmbedVideo(4568, 482, 304); On Sept. 16, after five years of trying, a female giant panda at Smithsonian's National Zoo finally gave birth to her second cub. Zookeepers were overjoyed; director Dennis Kelly called it… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch News Wrap: Apple Asks Judge to Ban Sale of Some Samsung Devices in U.S. In other news Monday, after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement, Apple has asked the court to ban the U.S. sale of eight Samsung smartphone models. Also, Margaret Warner reports on how the Syrian conflict… Continue watching
Aug 24 Apple Wins $1 Billion Patent Infringement Suit Against Samsung For the past year, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics have been locked in a showdown over dominance of a $200 billion-plus smartphone and tablet market. In April 2011, Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, making accusations that… Continue reading
Aug 23 Throngs of Dangerous Jellyfish Stings Caused ‘Intense, Ripping Pain’ for Nyad This photo shows three of the jellyfish that Nyad encountered during her swim. To the left is a carybdeid cubozoan, a type of box jellyfish. And to the right, almost out of frame, are two olindias. Photo by… Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch Tech Stock Ebb and Flow: Apple Dominates Wall Street While Facebook Flails Tech Stock Ebb and Flow: Apple Dominates Wall Street While Facebook Flails… Continue watching
Aug 16 Drilling for Clues to Ancient Climate EmbedVideo(4168, 482, 304); On the Joides Resolution research vessel, a team of scientists study the Earth's climate history by drilling deep into the ocean floor and analyzing the deep sea dirt. Two weeks ago the… Continue reading
Aug 09 Building a Natural Gas Fleet? Infrastructure Not Included EmbedVideo(4105, 482, 304); By 2008, the pressure to switch from diesel to natural gas was growing at the United Parcel Service shipping facility in Denver. A new technology called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" promised to drastically increase… Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch Guilty Plea, Life in Prison for Tuscon Shooter Loughner Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty to a 2011 shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jeffrey Brown talks to Loyola Law School's Laurie Levenson about the plea, which will spare victims going through… Continue watching