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Investigating Bombs with Robots and Shrapnel
Watch Video For Tuesday’s NewsHour, Science correspondent Miles O’Brien visited the barren desert canyons of New Mexico, where investigators study explosives… by building and exploding bombs. While...
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Storms, Science and Risk: Challenges Facing Extreme Weather Researchers
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: For more, we turn to Howard Bluestein, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He's done research in the field of active tornadoes. And,...
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Chemistry Teacher Mixes Science and Innovation and Sets it on Fire
Watch Video Jamie Munkatchy teaches juniors and seniors how to make ethanol in their South Bronx classroom. A trio of girls start shrieking as their crucible of clear liquid catches fire. This is...
View ArticleExpanded List of Science Rap Contest Finalists
This rap about the math concept known as the Fibonacci Sequence, is by Elissa Malcolm. Last week, we announced the finalists for the PBS NewsHour's Gza-inspired science rap contest. The entries were...
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How would you explain a scientific concept with rap and 16 bars of verse? That's the challenge we posed to our viewers after featuring this piece on the Big Bang by rap legend GZA of the Wu Tang...
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Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Chickens that lay eggs with life-saving drugs inside. Cyborg rats with microchips embedded in their brains. Beetles wired for wartime surveillance. These are just a few examples of the science...
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When Does Genetic Modification of Animals Cross a Line?
Watch Video In a web exclusive interview, Emily Anthes, author of the book, "Frankenstein's Cat," talks to Ray Suarez about the ethical limits when using animals in biotech research and development....
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From Glowing Cats to Robo-Bugs, Book Explores How Biotech Creates Weird Wildlife
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: a glimpse inside the wild world of animal biotechnology. Ray Suarez has that book conversation. RAY SUAREZ: Glow-in-the-dark cats, goats...
View ArticleGoogle: We Turned Over Information on a 'Tiny Fraction' of Users
Watch Video Chief legal officer David Drummond defends Google's response to the government's national security requests for information. In his first U.S. television interview since the latest news...
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Google Asks Approval to Offer More Transparency About Role in PRISM Program
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And we return to the surveillance programs and the questions surrounding them. Beyond the government itself, there are many concerns about the role of...
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Gullies on Mars Give Way to Dreams of Snowboarding in Space
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example "linear gullies" formed by dry ice thawing across the planet's sand dunes....
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Era of Online Sharing Offers Benefits of 'Big Data,' Privacy Trade-Offs
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, we come back to the surveillance story. Just how much information do we routinely disclose about ourselves online? And how do we feel...
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How to Woo a Cicada
A periodical cicada basks in the sun at a cemetery in Lorton, Virginia. Photo by Jenny Marder. On a hot spring day in late May, I went hunting for periodical cicadas with John Cooley, a veteran expert...
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NASA's Cassini Cameras to Provide Breathtaking Image of Earth from Saturn
In 2006, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this backlit view of of Saturn's rings during an eclipse of the sun. Courtesy Cassini Imaging Team/ Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI. Editor's note: Carolyn...
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Clarinet Player Seeks Cicadas for Jam Session
Watch Video Musician David Rothenberg plays his clarinet with the buzz of cicadas as his accompaniment. In early June, David Rothenberg journeyed to the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New York's Hudson...
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Cicada Mania: The Entomologists''Super Bowl'
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And next: one of nature's fascinating and deafening spectacles. Quiet, leafy neighborhoods suddenly sound more like airports and look like scenes from a...
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A Hormonal Happy Birthday
The word "hormone" made its scientific debut 108 years ago today. Photo by Alija/Getty Images The word hormone has long been a familiar part of the English vernacular. It can refer to a wide variety...
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Sunday's Supermoon: Overhyped?
The nearside of the moon. Photo by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. A message to the skywatchers: tilt your head back after nightfall on Sunday, and you'll see the closest full moon of the...
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Obama on Climate Change: Don't Fear the Future, Seize It
Watch Video Watch President Barack Obama's announcement of his new climate plan. Update: 2:30 p.m. ET | With sweat glistening on his forehead in the balmy Washington, D.C., heat, President Obama...
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How Hurling Spears 2 Million Years Ago May Have Given Us a 96-mph Fastball
MVP pitcher Justin Verlander is known for consistently throwing heat for the Detroit Tigers. In a study published this week, scientists learn how professional pitchers can throw with such high...
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