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Songs in the Key of Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: Now two stories about finding ways to engage students from low-income households. We begin with a new way to learn about a nucleus and other science...
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Cyber War Over Spam Slows Access for Internet Users
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight: an online spat that's causing havoc around the World Wide Web. Hari Sreenivasan has the story. HARI SREENIVASAN: One company fights spam;...
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Generation of Tech-Savvy Toddlers Go for Tablets Over Teddy Bears
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: And to our second story about very young children, this on the rapidly growing use of mobile technology among the toddler set. That's the subject of this...
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Swarms of Cicadas to Invade Eastern U.S.
If you live along the mid-Atlantic from North Carolina to Connecticut, get ready to witness the loud and "spectacular" mating ritual of the cicadas. Photo by Michael Raupp. Sometime around Memorial...
View ArticleWhat if a Search Engine Could Determine an Election?
Watch Video Hari Sreenivasan hosted a Google Hangout with Dr. Robert Epstein, whose study on search engine rankings show that results can be manipulated in a way that may influence voter preference....
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Tips (and Recipes) for the Cicada Invasion
Swarms of cicada nymphs emerge from the ground. Photo by Michael Raupp. On Friday, we wrote about the impending arrival of the 17-year cicadas -- the root sucking, egg laying, battery-sized bugs that...
View ArticleJames Hansen Steps Down from NASA
Watch Video Revisit NewsHour's interview with retiring NASA climate scientist James Hansen, who discussed why summer droughts in the summer of 2012 were linked to climate change. James Hansen, an...
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Sequester Cuts to Science Slow Biomedical Research
A scientist from the National Center for Toxicological Research analyzes microarray results to measure and assess the level of genes found in a tissue sample. FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth. Rebecca...
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What Do Federal Spending Cuts Mean for Science and Researchers?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now our continuing coverage on the impact of across-the-board federal spending cuts kicking in this spring in Washington and around the nation. Tonight,...
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Parachute Blows in the Mars Wind
A newly released series of images snapped by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that the Curiosity rover's parachute has been flapping in the thin Martian wind. Sure, this may seem hardly...
View Article'The End of Big' Argues That Technology Helps The Little Guy
Watch Video Author Nicco Mele writes about technology's influence on politics in "The End of Big." He sat down with PBS NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni. I've long been fascinated with...
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Babbling Sounds of Monkeys Share Rhythms with Human Speech
A gelada baboon in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Photo by A. Davey via Flickr. Scientists studying the evolution of speech have long puzzled over why there are no good models in primates....
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Portals to the Past: Cloning the Original Cherry Blossoms
More than 1 million visitors flock to Washington, D.C. each spring to view the cherry trees. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson. Every spring in Washington, D.C., the tree paparazzi come out. As the 3,700...
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The Day Polio Began Losing Its Grip on America
Elvis Presley receives the Salk polio vaccine in 1956. Awareness about the vaccine led to the end of polio in the U.S. Most babies today still receive the injection. Photo courtesy of March of Dimes....
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Vicious Sea Creature Sees in Dazzling Color
A mantis shrimp peers from its burrow in the Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea. Photo by David Doubilet/ National Geographic/ Getty Images. We're a little late to the party here, but if you haven't yet...
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Supreme Court Tackles Case of Patent Law, Human Genetics
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: We will continue to follow developments in Boston, but for now to another story. Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case at the intersection...
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Science of Light Diffusion Brings Gollum to Life
Watch Video Watch Visual Effects artist Joe Letteri explain how the science of light diffusion made digital characters more realistic. It was near midnight in the winter of 1998 when computer graphics...
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How Are Drones Used in the U.S.?
An Air 2 Air Ltd. Draganflyer Helicopter Base Unit camera holder is exhibited at an international airshow in Farnborough, U.K., on July 22, 2010. Photo by Simon Dawson/ Bloomberg via Getty Images. The...
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Two Earth-Sized Planets with Earth-Like Temperatures Discovered by Kepler
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation...
View ArticleHow Do You Build a Do-it-Yourself Drone?
So what goes into building one of these devices? Christopher Vo, director of education for the D.C. Area Drone User Group, an community organization of amateur and professional drone users, offers a...
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