May 18 Watch Post IPO, What Are Facebook’s Challenges Now? The public sale of Facebook shares on Friday didn't soar as some had expected. Margaret Warner talks to Arvind Bhatia of Sterne Agee and Rob Cox of Reuters' Breakingviews about what Facebook needs to do to keep its audience and… Continue watching
May 17 SpaceX Readies for Historic Launch EmbedVideo(3389, 482, 304); On Saturday, if all goes as planned, the privately owned spaceflight company SpaceX will launch its Dragon capsule into low-Earth orbit and three days later dock with the International Space Station. It would… Continue reading
May 10 ‘Oops Babies’ Sired by Twice-Vasectomized Chimp EmbedVideo(3319, 482, 304); Editor's note: On Thursday's NewsHour broadcast, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the debate over using chimpanzees for biomedical research. First, here's an inside look at one of the sanctuaries profiled in… Continue reading
May 03 Are You Smarter Than a 10th Grader on Climate Change? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Think you understand climate science better than the average American teen? On the PBS NewsHour this week we've been focusing on how climate change is taught in the classroom. But you can test your knowledge with this climate quiz:… Continue reading
Apr 26 What We Lose by Losing Women in the Hard Sciences EmbedVideo(3255, 482, 304); Is it inherent gender differences, subtle discrimination, the overwhelming "maleness" of the hard science fields? Experts have struggled for years to understand what's keeping more women from entering physics, engineering and computer science. Continue reading
Apr 19 Infrared Camera Sees Through Stardust to the Edge of the Universe Space tornadoes, stellar nurseries, primitive galaxies - these are just a few of the dazzling images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope since its 2003 launch. This week, NASA posted a collection of image highlights online. View the images… Continue reading
Apr 16 How to Remove Yourself From Google Street View By Hari Sreenivasan Anytime a story about Google's omniscient car cameras comes up, there is an inevitable gasp in the newsroom about the information that is available to anyone, anywhere thanks to images nabbed when the company's cars drove down familiar streets. Continue reading
Apr 12 Six Feet Under Can Be Green for Eternity By Frank Carlson EmbedVideo(3133, 482, 304); In 1998, Dr. Billy Campbell, a family practitioner in Westminster, South Carolina, opened a land preserve founded on a unique model: enlisting death in the fight for ecological conservation. Calling it the Ramsey… Continue reading
Apr 05 Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem In a study released last week, computer scientist Selim Akl of Queens University demonstrated that slime mold is fantastically efficient at finding the quickest route to food. When he placed rolled oats over the country's population centers and… Continue reading
Mar 29 Colo. Nonprofit Helps Quake Victims Rebuild With Better Techniques Buildings vulnerable to collapse are everywhere. A skyscraper built on a parking garage in San Francisco could have too much open space with too few structural walls. Sand mixed into concrete for a house in Mexico might contain… Continue reading