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Hot, Dry Winds Help Spread Deadly Valley Fever Infections
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Next: an often undiagnosed disease known as valley fever is spreading throughout the Southwest. Ray is back with our science story. RAY SUAREZ: The Mojave...
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NIH to Retire Most Research Chimps
Chimpanzees snack on fruit and vegetables at Louisiana's Chimp Haven retirement facility. Image by Cameron Hickey. In another move toward ending invasive research on our chimpanzee cousins, the...
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Science Rap Contest: And the Winners Are...
Ernesto Lara's video, "Elevation and Boiling Point," has won first prize in the adult category for the NewsHour's science rap contest. Ernesto Lara, a 33-year-old math and Spanish teacher in Silver...
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Russian Rocket Crashes and Explodes, Spilling Fuel
Watch Video A Russian Proton-M rocket crashes seconds after launch on Tuesday. Video by Rossiya 24. A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites careened off its flight path, burst into...
View ArticleLiver Buds Show Promise, but Growing New Organs is Still a Long Way Off
Watch Video Watch this time lapse video showing how three types of stem cells organized into a three dimensional liver bud over 72 hours. Video by Takanori Takebe When stem cell biologist Takanori...
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Russian Rocket Explosion Releases Toxic Fuel Cloud
A Proton-M rocket, carrying a Nimiq 6 communication satellite is raised to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on May 14, 2012. Photo by STR/AFP/GettyImages. After a...
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Nobel Laureates Doodle Their Discoveries
You can view Nobel Award-winning scientists sketching their research in the video above. What do you get when you ask 56 Nobel Laureate scientists to cartoon their greatest discoveries? Photographer...
View ArticleHow I Learned To Stop Worrying About Email Hacking
Watch Video Dmitri Alperovitch of CrowdStrike demonstrates how an email message can allow hackers to access your computer. Have you ever received an email that looked legitimate, but seemed...
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US Government, Industry Fed up with Chinese Cyber Theft; What’s Being Done?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: to the growing problem of cyber-security. For the first time ever, it's on the agenda at a biannual meeting of U.S. and China leaders this week in...
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The Day 'Dog Vomit' Slime Mold Invaded My Front Yard
Slime mold thrives in the presence of water, shade and dead, decaying leaves. Photo by Emily Johnson. About a week ago, we noticed an intruder in our front yard -- a vivid yellow, blob-like substance...
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8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla
Futurist Nikola Tesla, seen here at age 34 in 1890, is the inventor of the Tesla coil and alternating current machinery. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In honor of inventor Nikola Tesla's 157th...
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How Virtual Reality Games Can Impact Society, Encourage Prosperity
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight: video games, virtual reality and how changes in those technologies may be connected with economic behavior. NewsHour economics...
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Hair Washing in Zero Gravity: A Magnificient Mohawk and the Water Goes Rogue
International Space Station crew member, U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates how she washes her hair in space onboard the International Space Station. If you thought brushing your teeth in zero...
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Restoring the San Joaquin River and Recalling its History
This photo from 1900 shows European-Americans boarding rowboats on the banks of the San Joaquin River in California. Using archives records like maps and photographs, scientists are trying to revive...
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A Look Into a River's Past
California has funded scientists from the San Francisco Estuary Institute to reconstruct an image of the San Joaquin Delta’s pre-Spanish landscape. They layer navigational charts, government land...
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Extreme Runners Race 135 Miles Through Death Valley
Oswaldo Lopez of Madera, Calif., is cooled by his crew as he runs in the AdventureCORPS Badwater 135 ultra-marathon race on July 15, 2013 in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Photo by David...
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How the Newest Moons Get Their Names
This computer-generated montage shows Neptune and Triton, Neptune's largest moon, from January 1990. Photo by SSPL/Getty Images. A new, far-flung moon orbiting Neptune was discovered earlier this...
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New Organisms Shine a Light on 'Microbial Dark Matter'
Despite little light and extreme temperatures, new microorganisms were found at "Crab Spa", a hydrothermal vent site on the ocean floor, along with eight other unusual places. Photo courtesy Stefan...
View ArticleWhite House Hosts Google Hangout on Superheroes
White House hosts Google+ Hangout At 12 p.m. EDT, the White House will host a Google+ Hangout on "The Stuff Superheroes are Made Of," the latest in their "We the Geeks" series that focuses on the...
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Earth and Moon Join Saturn in Interplanetary Photoshoot
This picture of Earth from space was taken in June 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of 211 nautical miles. Photo by NASA. Okay, so it's kind of gimmicky, but it's all...
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