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Book Explores Societal Transfer of Power From Big Institution to Active Citizen
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Now: how technology has made the world a smaller place, and, arguably, opened up new opportunities for the little guy in politics, business and...
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Moon and Earth May Share a Watery Past
Tiny beads of green glass from the moon may hold the answers to the Earth's watery past. Photo by NASA. It took three years for Alberto Saal of Brown University, Erik Hauri of the Carnegie Institution...
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Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reflects on Four Months in Orbit
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who returned to Earth this week after four months on the International Space Station, fields questions on Thursday about his time in orbit. The astronaut whose...
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Latest Forecast Shows the U.S. Drought Moving West
Last year's drought scorched over half of country last year. Now that drought is shifting towards the Southwest and western Plains, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,...
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Major Embryonic Stem Cell Advance Raises Ethical Quandaries
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, a major advance in stem cell work, but one that again raises ethical questions. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University...
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Cicada Sighting! Bug-Eyed Critters Emerging in Northern Virginia
A cicada perches on a leaf of grass at Virginia’s Bull Run Regional Park. The full brood of cicadas is expected to emerge en masse in late May or June. Photos by Jenny Marder. After an afternoon...
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Life of Sally Ride Honored at Kennedy Center Tribute
American astronaut Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the flight deck in 1983. Photo by Apic/Getty Images. *Editor's note: On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles...
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A High Tech Solution for a Neighborhood Problem
Watch Video Spencer Michels sat down with Alex Pandel and Eddie Tejeda, two of the co-founders of an app called BlightStatus, as part of Code for America's fellowship program. "Government is supposed...
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Yahoo Makes Bid for Reboot With $1.1 Billion Deal for Popular Blog Site Tumblr
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And we turn to the blockbuster deal announced today in the tech world: giant, but troubled Yahoo buying the popular blogging site Tumblr. The purchasing...
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Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: Making cities work better through high-tech innovation,that's the ambitious goal of one San Francisco startup. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels has...
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5 Questions: Why Yahoo Hopes Tumblr Will Expand Its 'Coolness'
Photo illustration by PBS NewsHour created with Pic Stich Yahoo, the languishing tech pioneer, officially unveiled its acquisition of social blogging platform Tumblr on Monday. The $1.1 billion...
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Group Seeks Help From Social Networks to Combat Hate Speech
Photo of a Facebook user by Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images. Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter have helped users mobilize around a common cause like never before. But what if...
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Honoring Sally Ride's Legacy as Scientist, Trailblazer, Educational Role Model
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And, finally tonight, the legacy of Sally Ride. Yesterday, President Obama announced he would confer the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's...
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Building a Monster Tornado
Homes, trees and cars damaged by Monday's tornado are seen by early morning light near Telephone Road and SW 4th Street in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 21. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman /...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Faces Senate Questions on Taxes
Watch Video Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook testifies on Capitol Hill to explain the company's tax strategy. WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by...
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Does Technology Offer Anyone a Big Break in Entertainment Industry?
Changes in technology have opened up new opportunities in the entertainment industry, offering platforms for the most scrappy or eclectic of musicians, filmmakers and other creative artists. That's...
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Wheels Stopped for Kepler, but Still More to Study
This 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 ArticleIs U.S. Less Secure After Chinese Hack Weapons Designs?
Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: There was a new report today of cyber-spying by the Chinese, this time aimed at U.S. military and defense systems. According to The Washington Post, designs for more...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Bombs Used at the Boston Marathon
NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien visits the nation's most active explosives testing facility in New Mexico to learn more about what makes a pressure cooker bomb -- like those used at the...
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Are Faces the New Fingerprints?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now to the second of our stories on the role of technology in unraveling the Boston bombing case. Last night, science correspondent Miles O'Brien traveled...
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