Aug 21 Tatooine, Vulcan and Other Incredible Planets NASA’s Kepler Found Beyond Earth Artist's rendition of the Kepler telescope. Courtesy: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel Last week, scientists announced that after four years of surveying a strip of the Milky Way galaxy, the Kepler Space Telescope would officially go offline, due to a… Continue reading
Aug 14 Is Poison Ivy Getting Nastier? The shiny three leaves of poison ivy. Photo by Susan Biddle/The Washington Post/Getty Images. Ahh, summertime. A long wilderness hike followed by a refreshing swim in the river followed by -- music screeches to halt -- a… Continue reading
Aug 07 12 Facts About Hellbender Salamanders By Leah Clapman List compiled by Rebecca Jacobson. Read our full Science Wednesday report. They have lungs, but they breathe completely through pores in their skin. Their name Cryptobranchus means “secret gill.” They are the third largest species of salamanders in… Continue reading
Aug 05 Mars Rover Mission Team Celebrates One Year The Mars Curiosity Rover team celebrates on Aug. 5, 2012, inside the spaceflight operations facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing on Mars. Photo by Brian van der Brug-Pool/Getty… Continue reading
Jul 31 Unlocking the Secrets of a Swimmer’s Scourge, the Jellyfish Sting Updated: August 5 | On the morning of July 29, 1997, while swimming off the shore of Waikiki, a throng of box jellyfish stung Angel Yanagihara along her neck, arms and ankles. She swam back to shore… Continue reading
Jul 30 Silicon Valley Takes on Gun Violence, Funding Innovative Technologies Ron Conway of SV Angel speaks onstage at a TechCrunch conference in New York City on May 1, 2013. Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch. Silicon Valley luminary Ron Conway -- a successful investor in high tech companies,… Continue reading
Jul 25 NewsHour Live Twitter Chat: Stopping Gun Violence The PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats on Thursdays. This week: stopping gun violence. Join us @newshour. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Bring up the topic of guns and there's likely to be no shortage of opinions. Mass shootings in… Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch San Quentin Prisoners Learn to Find Peace and Power Through Personal Exploration San Quentin Prisoners Learn to Find Peace and Power Through Personal Exploration… Continue watching
Jul 24 Science ‘Classroom Without Walls’ Replete with Snapping Turtles, Snakes EmbedVideo(7015, 482, 304); Eighth grade teacher Darrell Walker routinely teaches his science class in the wetlands behind their North Carolina middle school. Video by Rebecca Jacobson "Snake! Snake!" an eighth-grade student shouts from the boardwalk as she crosses… Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch California Takes Back Legally Purchased Guns Held by Now-Prohibited Owners California Takes Back Legally Purchased Guns Held by Now-Prohibited Owners… Continue watching