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U.S. and French Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Quantum Optics
Pictures of Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the U.S. are projected on a screen as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 9,...
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Felix Baumgartner's Record Skydiving Attempt Aborted Due to Gusty Winds
Felix Baumgartner completes a final test jump in July from 97,145.7 feet. Photo by Red Bull Stratos.Update: 2:06 p.m. ET | Mission control has aborted Felix Baumgartner's Tuesday attempt to complete...
View ArticleFrom Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas
Listen to the AudioOne of Chicago's most beautiful and hidden gardens is located on top of City Hall, part of an effort to 'green' roofs in order fight rising temperatures. Hari Sreenivasan reports on...
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U.S. Scientists Win Nobel for Cell Receptor Research
Pictures of US scientists Robert Lefkowitz (L) and Brian Kobilka who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are projected on a screen as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the laureates on...
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Spider-Math and Bat-Physics: Science in a Superhero World
EmbedVideo(4694, 482, 304);Toward the end of "The Amazing Spider-Man", Peter Parker saves a small child trapped in a car as the car is tossed from New York City's Williamsburg Bridge by the movie's...
View ArticleAustrian Daredevil Lands on His Feet After Supersonic Jump from the Stratosphere
Listen to the AudioFelix Baumgartner jumped from 24 miles above the earth to break a 52-year-old record for the highest successful free fall jump. Hari Sreenivasan talks to science correspondent Miles...
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Physics of a Supersonic Stratospheric Skydive
On Sunday, the world watched as a helium balloon carried a capsule containing Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner to a height of 128,000 feet. And then, clad in an astronaut-like spacesuit, he opened...
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Australian Scientist Wins 'Dance Your Ph.D' Contest
A new "Dance Your PhD" contest winner has been announced, and it involves juggling, shuffling bodies and burlesque-style dancing behind rainbow-colored umbrellas. This year's winner is Peter...
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Early Triassic's Stifling Heat Made Earth Hostile to Life, Scientists Say
Researchers used fossils like this of Early Triassic conodonts, an eel-like marine animal, for oxygen isotope measurement and past temperature reconstruction. Image by Yadong Sun.Some 250 million...
View ArticleCould the U.S. Face 'Cyber Pearl Harbor'? Protecting Banks from Hacker Attacks
Listen to the AudioAs U.S. financial institutions continue to be attacked, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns of a "cyber Pearl Harbor." Michael Leiter, former director of the National...
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Absorbent Nanomaterial Cleans up Toxic Water
While researching ways to detect explosives at airports, Paul Edmiston, a chemist with the College of Wooster, made an unexpected discovery: a new spongelike material he calls "Osorb." The material...
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Seismologists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing to Predict Earthquake
Seven people -- six Italian seismologists and a government official -- were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for failing to warn people of a 6.3 magnitude...
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How Grandmothers Gave Us Longer Lives
Photo by Susan Smith via Flickr.Humans may have developed our long life spans as a result of nature's first babysitters: grandmothers. A new study published in the Proceedings of Royal Society B on...
View ArticleDigital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better
Listen to the AudioThe recording is just 78 seconds long, featuring a cornet solo and a man reciting nursery rhymes. Dated back to 1878, experts say it may be the oldest playable recording of an...
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Designing Robobees Poses Engineering Challenge
EmbedVideo(4826, 482, 304);The robotic bee, or "robobee" has an electronic nervous system that tells it to flap its wings, an exoskeleton inspired by a children's pop-up book and a computer-chip...
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Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Along East Coast
Hurricane Sandy is moving along the East Coast of the United States. The category one storm has left the Bahamas and is traveling north, leaving a trail a destruction through the Caribbean and blowing...
View ArticleWith Windows 8, Microsoft Makes Big Shift Away From PCs Towards Tablets
Listen to the AudioMicrosoft has revealed its biggest makeover so far to the operating system found on nine out of every 10 computers in the world. Ray Suarez talks to Forrester Research's Charles...
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East Coast Braces for Hurricane Sandy
Click on the image to get NOAA's latest satellite image of the United States.Update 04:44 p.m. ETFEMA announced this afternoon that the agency is currently deploying Incident Management Assistance...
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Hurricane Sandy Barrels Toward Northeast and Midatlantic States
See full map Sandy's sheer strength is due to a convergence of factors. As one storm moved west from the Bahamas, a system known as a midlatitude trough moved across the country from the west...
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Digital Campaigns May Decide the Election
I'm a registered independent who lives in a battleground state, but I'm also what's known as an off-the-grid voter, meaning I've lived with a DVR for a decade and fast forward right through those...
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