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Englert and Higgs win top physics prize for explaining how matter acquires mass
CERN scientists celebrate after the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images. Britain's Peter W. Higgs and Belgium's Francois Englert jointly...
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Transforming teens into tomorrow's tech titans
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: preparing students for the digital economy. A new report out today finds younger Americans fall behind their peers in other industrialized countries...
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The new climate normal: coming soon to a city near you
Map displaying years when cities around the world will cross the climate threshold. Created by Mora Lab/University of Hawaii Manoa By 2047, the global climate will have veered drastically off course...
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Chasing the origins of the Gulf's giant shrimp
The invasive Asian tiger shrimp, which can grow as long as a human forearm and weigh as much as eleven ounces, has gained a foothold in Gulf of Mexico waters. Photo by Ryan Werner In the coastal town...
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Gun safety advocates support 'smart' technology to prevent accidental deaths
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Next: Can guns be made safer by making them smarter? Ray Suarez explores the possibilities of personalizing gun technology. BELINDA PADILLA, Armatix U.S....
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Will Facebook change lead to an erosion of privacy rights for teens?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: We take a closer look now at Facebook's decision to relax rules about what teens can share online. The changes mean that teens between 13 and 17 years...
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1.8 million-year-old skull may revise understanding of human evolution
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to an important finding of ancient fossils that could rewrite the latest thinking about human evolution and is the subject of scientific debate....
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'Mind-boggling' skull discovery offers researchers a view into the ancient past
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: One of those scientists joins me now. Donald Johanson is professor of human evolution and social change and founding director of the Institute of Human...
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Tight immigration rules divert high tech brains from Seattle to Santiago
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioPETER EISNER: What draws a high tech furniture maker all the way from Ireland to Santiago, Chile? Or convinces a neuroscientist from the University of Michigan to set...
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How societal, economic factors play into rise of drug-resistant bacteria
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: the mounting worries and public health concerns over the rise of drug-resistant bacteria.That's the subject of tonight's episode of FRONTLINE. To...
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What's in a name? In physics, everything and nothing
The term "Big Bang theory" began as an insult, but it ushered the idea into pop culture, spawning namesakes like the CBS sitcom about scientists. Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS Broadcasting Inc. If it...
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Meet the student hackers behind the "Plaid Parliament of Pwning"
Earlier this year, the “Plaid Parliament of Pwning” team held a hacking contest for high school students called “Toaster Wars.” Consider a phone charger that not only charges your smartphone, but also...
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Secret weapon against hacking: College students
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRICK KARR: Malicious computer hackers are posing more and more of a threat to business and government – and they will spend around 46 billion dollars this year to...
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New York uses lessons learned from Sandy to build defenses against super-storms
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: This week marks a year since superstorm Sandy struck. More than 70 people were killed along the Eastern Seaboard. Damage totaled more than $65 billion, and...
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What the lowlands can teach the U.S. about warding off high water
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now to the second installment of our look at what has and has not changed one year after superstorm Sandy blew ashore, taking 181 lives and damaging 650,000...
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How will coastal cities weather future superstorms?
This week, PBS NewsHour Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reported on new technologies engineers are using to protect coastlines from rising waters. For an expanded look at how mussels could save...
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Can environmentalists and frackers be friends?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioANNOUNCER: Environmentalists and oil and gas companies are used to finding themselves on opposite sides of debates about fossil fuel consumption, pollution, and global...
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Discovery of Earth-size planets rouses search for intelligent life
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: The never-ending search for life beyond Earth just became more interesting. Scientists now say they think there are many planets, tens of...
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Neuroscience may offer hope to millions robbed of silence by tinnitus
On Easter Sunday in 2008, the phantom noises in Robert De Mong’s head dropped in volume -- for about 15 minutes. For the first time in months, he experienced relief, enough at least to remember what...
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