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What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die?
Watch Video PBS NewsHour spoke with Ricky Rash about his struggle to gain access to his son's online accounts after the 15-year-old's death in 2011. Eric Rash had a bright future, so when he committed...
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Law Lags Behind in Defining Posthumous Protocol for Online Accounts
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: what happens to what you might call a person's digital estate, the postings, photos, and memories shared online. Virginia is the latest among a...
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How to Eat an Apple in Space
Oh to be Chris Hadfield, eating maple syrup from a tube and casually gazing down at a smoke plume streaming from Italy's Mount Etna volcano while performing experiments to improve the metal in turbine...
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What Blood, Spit and a Data Bank Can Tell Us About Disease
Willie Mae Washington, 92, and her daughter Ida are among the 15,000 women in the Oakland area participating in a study on genetic links to diseases like cancer. Photo by Robert Durell. A giant data...
View ArticleHow Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA?
On tonight's PBS NewsHour, Correspondent Spencer Michels and I report on a massive, groundbreaking study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco, which one day...
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Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine for Vital Medical Information
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: In California, researchers are sifting through a huge collection of genetic data that could be a key to unlocking vital information for doctors and...
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Obama Continues Outreach to Hill As Poll Numbers Dip
President Barack Obama arrives at Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats who are planning to unveil their budget blueprint this week. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Much has been...
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Erin Brockovich: The Real-Life Unhappy Ending
HINKLEY, Calif. - We all love a neat, tidy Hollywood ending to a David and Goliath story. Sadly, in the real world, they are hard to come by. More often than not, the little guy might win a battle, but...
View ArticleWho Gets Ownership of Your Digital Life When You Die?
It's clear our lives have changed as a result of the technological revolution. What's not clear is what happens to our digital lives when we die. Five states currently have laws that govern digital...
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Protecting Americans From Danger in the Drinking Water
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien begins a two-part look at America's drinking water, and the regulatory system that is supposed to guarantee...
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Geeking Out on Pi Day: For the Love of Pi and the Tao of Tau
Young fans prepare for the Pi Procession at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, holding handmade signs with a digit in pi's numerical sequence. Photo courtesy the Exploratorium. March 14 is Pi Day,...
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Strong Signs of Higgs Discovery
A representation of the innerworkings of the Atlas particle detector painted on one of the walls at the CERN campus in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by Harold Cunningham/Getty Images. New results from...
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How to Get Chromium-6 Out of Your Water
In the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays a scantily-clad file clerk in a small law firm who traces a cluster of health problems in a California desert town to a chemical in the...
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Decision Delayed on Dangerous Chemical Found in Drinking Water
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And now to part two of our investigative look at the safety of America's drinking water. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the toxic...
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Discovering Higgs Boson: the Thrill and Drama of the Waiting Game
This proton-proton collision event, from the CMS experiment at CERN, shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson. Photo by CERN. Following last week's major announcement at CERN, I...
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100 Years Later, Retracing Shackleton's Antarctic Trek
Watch Video Hari Sreenivasan interviews Joanne Davies about her plans to trek across Antarctica and finish what Sir Ernest Shackleton started. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest...
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Tennessee Is Home to U.S. Leader in Offering Fast, City-Wide Internet
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Now our series on broadband and how it's changing our habits, our work, our communities. Tonight, we focus on why some cities are opting for even...
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Big Bang Afterglow Reveals Older Universe, More Matter, Slower Expansion
You may have seen this map, which has been making the rounds since its release by the European Space Agency Thursday. It's a beauty, isn't it? The map represents a snapshot of light left over from the...
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'The World Needs You, Badly,' Edward O. Wilson Tells Young Scientists
Biologist Edward O. Wilson studies fire ants at Harvard University on Sept. 8, 1975. Photo by Hugh Patrick Brown/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Edward O. Wilson's "Letters to a Young...
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School House Rapping With Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA
Legendary hip-hop artist raps about science in his new album and brings that message to schools. Upload your own science rap for a chance to win a shout-out from GZA. Details are below. NEW YORK -- In...
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