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Japan considers energy future after Fukushima
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s been three years since a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, and forced the government to shut down the plants that remained....
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Welcome to Pleistocene Park: Russian scientists say they have a ‘high chance’...
Scientists remain hopeful that a woolly mammoth may someday be cloned. Photo by Flickr user Mark Ryan Woolly mammoth blood and tissue discovered in Siberia in 2013 will give scientists “a high chance”...
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Find your slice of birthday in pi
Pi is for everyone. Chances are your birthday digits are hidden in the mathematical constant. Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty ImagesThe mathematical constant pi fascinates even the most advanced...
View ArticleStudy finds phone metadata can reveal sensitive personal information
The government has your number, and the meta-data surrounding it. What does that really mean? From the heads of intelligence agencies to the president, they’ve all said it is not identifiable, but a...
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Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence from the creation of the universe
New evidence released today gives us a look at the universe less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Image of a portion of the Milky Way galaxy by Serge Brunier/NASAScientists believe...
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After 1,600 years frozen, Antarctic moss shows ‘unprecedented’ survival
Photos show regrowth of moss that had been frozen for about 1,600 years. Photos by Current Biology A moss plant that spent around 1,600 years under Antarctic ice has been revived by scientists and is...
View Article‘Ripples’ of the Big Bang reveal the beginning of the universe
Update, 10:52 a.m. Mar. 18 EDT: Video by Stanford University shows Professor Andrei Linde and his wife’s surprise when they are told for the first time there is evidence supporting cosmic inflation...
View ArticleIn times of stress, men become self-centered, women focus on others
A new study reveals how men and women react differently to stress. The paper, to be published in the May issue of the journal Psychoneuroendicrinology, claims that in times of stress male subjects...
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Evidence of cosmic inflation expands understanding of universe’s origins
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: It’s a mind-boggling concept: Our cosmos expanded from almost nothing to its first huge growth spurt in just a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of...
View ArticleWatch atoms as they ‘hula hoop’ inside a molecule
Have you ever seen molecules bond, break or hula hoop? Chemist Ara Apkarian has. He and his team at the University of California Irvine are developing the chemiscope, a laser-powered device to record...
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Where do emerging and developing nations stand on Internet freedom?
Photo by Flickr user photosteve101. A new study says that a majority of people living in developing and emerging countries want their internet access unrestricted. In their latest report released...
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Losing sleep can lead to brain damage, scientists warn
New research suggests chronic sleep loss can lead to a loss of brain cells. Photo by Flicrk user umjanedoan. A sleepless night can cause a lot more than a sluggish day, a new study warns. Research...
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A gas cloud collides with the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and we...
This simulation shows the G2 gas cloud during its close approach to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Image by ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann. The landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is...
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Using social media to scour the ‘haystack’: More than 3 million join search...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: For now, the most useful lead in the search for the missing airliner has been those satellite images of possible debris. But nothing has been confirmed...
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25 years later, scientists still spot traces of oil from Exxon Valdez spill
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef off of the south coast of Alaska, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound. Twenty-five years later, there are...
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What happens in a mudslide? A geologist answers
In this handout from the Washington State Department of Transportation, a mudslide on Saturday buried a mile of State Route 530, demolished 30 homes and killed at least eight people in a rural...
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Inside the box that might hold the answers to the missing jet
The flight data recorder, or black box of a crashed Russian passenger jet is displayed during a press conference in Jakarta on May 31, 2012. Indonesian searchers found this second black box three weeks...
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How this season’s epic winter fared
Photo by Tim Robberts / Getty Images By all accounts, it should be spring. March 20 marked the spring equinox. Meteorologists consider March 1 to be the first day of spring. The solar spring began way...
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Comet ‘Siding Spring’ will make close approach to Mars
Image courtesy of NASA, ESA and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute) Comet C/2013 A1 will be making a trip through Mars’ neighborhood in October. The comet, dubbed Siding Spring, will be knocking on...
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UN panel warns dire threats of climate change may spin ‘out of control’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The new U.N. report on climate change is full of serious warnings and predictions of what’s to come. But it’s also especially sobering about what’s...
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