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Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies at 61
Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the flight deck of the Challenger shuttle on June 25, 1983. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Photo by Apic/Getty...
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Sally Ride in 1987: Left NASA at Odds with Agency's Vision
EmbedVideo(3971, 482, 304);In 1987, Sally Ride retired from NASA to take a job a Stanford University, leaving America's space program "without a real hero" and "struggling to stay in orbit." That's...
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Ride, Sally Ride: My Dinner with the First American Woman in Space
Pictured at the opening of the Challenger Learning Center in Atlanta on January 28, 2003: Cheryl McNair, June Scobee Rodgers, Sally Ride and Miles O'Brien. Photo by Ted Pio-roda/CNN. On January 28,...
View ArticleSally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists
Listen to the AudioKnown for being the first American woman in space, Sally Ride dedicated her life to inspiring young people to engage in science, using space travel as a means to an educational end,...
View ArticleWhat Caused the Sudden Burst of Extreme Ice Melt in Greenland?
Map showing the four day period this July that the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate and at higher elevations than satellite data had ever recorded.View full content
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Sudden Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it?
In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this...
View ArticleGreenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days
Listen to the AudioOn July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner...
View ArticleAn Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them
Listen to the AudioTo keep Asian carp, an invasive species, from taking over in the Great Lakes, scientists and fishermen are employing an simple strategy: Catch them and eat them. But they have found...
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Apple and Samsung Face Off in Court
People line up to enter the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse on July 30, 2012 in San Jose, Calif. (All photos by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The high-stakes trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung...
View ArticleBig Stakes on Small Devices: Apple and Samsung Square Off in Federal Court
Listen to the AudioJury selection began for a lawsuit Apple, Inc. filed against Samsung Electronics, in which Apple claims Samsung copied Apple's smartphone and tablet designs. Ray Suarez reports on a...
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Bridging the Gap Between Old Government and New Technology
EmbedVideo(4022, 482, 304);Former congressional aide Marci Harris was frustrated with the way informationand messages flooded into the office of Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., and got lost. In2010, she...
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Countdown Clock Ticks Toward Curiosity Landing on Mars
This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot designed to Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech.NASA...
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Robots and Rovers and Mars Revisited
With the youngest and most ambitious Mars rover yet zipping toward its final destination, we thought it appropriate to pause and take a look back at Curiosity's new home and robot brethren. With the...
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Are We All Martians? The Curious Hunt for Life on Mars
The prospect that Mars was once a cushy berth for life has waxed and waned as our abilities to study the planet have evolved. In the 1870's an Italian astronomer with the great, lyrical name of...
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California's Mixing Bowl: The Delta's Crucial Role in a Thirsty State
On July 25, Gov. Jerry Brown of California and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a $23.7 billion plan to divert the Sacramento River's flow underneath the Sacramento-San...
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California Water: Old Song, New Lyrics
The Sacramento San Joaquin delta waterway is a source of water and trouble. Photo by Spencer Michels.When I was in junior high school in San Francisco, in the early 1950s, I had a student teacher in...
View ArticleCalifornia Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water?
Listen to the AudioThe San Joaquin delta is a merging spot of rivers, sloughs, and canals, where water and snow from the Sierra Nevada Mountains flows to the Pacific Ocean. But there are some...
View ArticleMission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown
Listen to the AudioNASA will soon attempt to land the rover Curiosity on the surface of Mars. If all goes as planned, Curiosity will enter the Martian atmosphere, slowing its descent by releasing a...
View ArticlePrivacy in a Digital Age: When Twitter Followers Can Track a Lost Phone
Listen to the AudioWhen New York Times tech reporter David Pogue lost his iPhone, he turned to his 1.4 million Twitter followers for help. And the online crowd responded, tracking his phone down in...
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James Hansen: Extreme Heat Events Connected to Climate Change
Dr. James Hansen of NASA, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on the topic of Climate Change says there is now enough evidence to connect global warming to some of the extreme weather events...
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