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Avoiding Addiction When It's in Your DNA
I grew up in a house where the booze flowed freely and I was allowed to openly imbibe through most of my high school years. When I got to college, I did what college students do: drank a lot, sometimes...
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Scientists Say Bottoms Up to Find the Connection Between Genes and Addiction
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: addiction and the role of genetics. NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien provides a personal take as he hones in on those connections and...
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Meteor Shower Told in Tweets
Israelis in a hot water spring on the shore of the Dead Sea near the Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Gedi watch the sky for Geminid meteor streaks above the Judean desert on December 14, 2012. Photo by Menahem...
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A Dramatic End for the Twin Moon Spacecraft
This artist's concept shows one of the GRAIL satellites inserting itself into orbit. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech. The twin GRAIL robots, the washing-machine sized satellites that have been zipping...
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Why Diagnosing Adam Lanza Is a Problem
A pair of angel wings and balloons stand after being offered at a makeshift shrine to the victims of a elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Sunday. Photo by AFP/Emmanuel Dunand. Augie...
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Research Chimps to Retire to Louisiana Sanctuary
Chimps socialize and snack at Chimp Haven. Image by Cameron Hickey. The NIH announced plans on Tuesday to move more than 100 chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center into retirement at Chimp...
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Superheated Jet Dominates Black Hole
On May 19, Jonathan McKinney sent an email to his supervisor and a colleague at Stanford University. "Let's try to keep this quiet for now," he wrote, and then launched into an explanation about...
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Commentary: A Tech To-Do List for Washington in 2013
Rob Pegoraro tries to make sense of computers, consumer electronics, telecom services, the Internet, software and other things that beep or blink through reporting, reviewing and analysis -- from 1999...
View ArticleMiles O'Brien: Crawling in Sewage, Cuddling With Dolphins in 2012
Watch Video Over the past year, Miles O'Brien has jogged, drank and slept on the job. He's suited up, strapped in and goofed off. He swam with dolphins to study sleep, played ball with chimps, tracked...
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Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out?
A river rises in the Andes and flows east to the Amazon, Ucayali River in Peru. Photo by Bates Littlehales/National Geographic/Getty Images TARAPOTO, Peru -- For tropical ecologist Gregory Asner,...
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Into Pungent Water
I have heard people say television is a glamorous business. But while I was donning a Tyvek suit, face mask, gloves and waders cinched tight with duct tape -- to be lowered into a big sewer line...
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Crumbling Pipes and Underground Waste: A Glimpse at Our Ailing Sewer System
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And now: the smelly depths of our aging infrastructure. Our intrepid NewsHour science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, takes a deep dive into some very...
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Smoking Out the Vultures
A few hours before sundown, the vultures arrive by the dozens to roost in Jessica Paulin's backyard. They swoop in, choose the perfect evergreen branch, and with one or two flaps of their massive...
View ArticleHow Are Arts Organizations Using Digital Technologies?
Have you ever live-tweeted during a classical music performance? Used a museum's mobile app? "Liked" a cultural event on Facebook? Done a yarn bombing? A new study, "Arts Organizations and Digital...
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Beyond Suburbia: The Other Side of Vultures
A black vulture chews on a rubber seal from a vehicle in Everglades National Park, Florida. Photo by Curtis Morgan/Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images. On Friday, I wrote about a colony of vultures that...
View ArticleOne Professor's Approach to Online Learning: He's Learning Too
Watch Video Online learning at the university level comes in a variety of flavors. The hottest one right now is the MOOC, or massive open online courses, that are primarily given for free and do not,...
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Talking Robots Play Part in Therapeutic Treatment for People With Special Needs
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Next: a science and medical story involving research from the frontiers of robotics. Ray Suarez looks at how doctors are using high-tech toys to help...
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How Skiers Move Moguls Uphill
Watch Video Here's a little-known winter fact: Ski moguls, those tricky-to-navigate bumps on well-traveled ski runs, migrate slowly uphill. Moguls are formed by skiers on virtually all ski trails that...
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The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show
The 2013 Internation Consumer Electronics Show or CES, is held in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 to January 11, 2013. Depicts the newest electronic inventions from Samsung, Dell, Canon, Sony, LG,...
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At Consumer Electronics Show, Sorting the Go-Go Gadgets from the No-Go
View Slide Show LAS VEGAS -- It's not obvious whether a new gadget's public debut at the annual Consumer Electronics Show would be better described as taking the stage or walking the plank. This is my...
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