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U.S. expands pristine national monument in the middle of the Pacific
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCan Obama’s Pacific Ocean sanctuary plan balance environmental and economic interests? Go Fish? Not in Pacific Ocean sanctuaries off California’s coast...
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Beyond the law: Are encrypted smartphones too private for the FBI?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioALISON STEWART: The debate over personal privacy versus national security took a new turn Thursday when the director of the FBI criticized Apple and Google for...
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Researchers reveal dolphins’ real animal ‘magnetism’
Photo by Flickr user Ste Elmore Turns out dolphins have a certain magnetic quality, not just figuratively but literally. A new study published in the journal Naturwissenschaften — The Science of...
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Elephants don’t eat peanuts, and 10 other things you should know about the...
Two African elephants roam the flowery grassland in Tanzania. Photo by © Martin Harvey/WWF-Canon Monday on The PBS NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown visits baby elephants in Kenya orphaned by the illegal ivory...
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World’s wildlife population shrinking at alarming rate, report says
Species, like the red-eyed tree frog of Central America, could be threatened by shrinking habitat. Photo copyright Philippe Kok The world population of vertebrate species has been cut in half over the...
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What made Japan’s deadly volcanic eruption so unpredictable?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSIcelandic Volcano Eruption Continues to Disrupt European Airspace Just Ask: What Makes Volcanoes Erupt? Scientists discover source of 13th century “mystery...
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This is how you get Ebola, as explained by science
A colorized, magnified electron microscope image of the Ebola virus growing out of an infected VERO 46 cell. Image by National Institute of Allerfy and Infectious Diseases This post was originally...
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Why do honeybees die when they sting?
It is only the female honeybees, or the worker bees, that sting. Photo by Flickr user Andreas We return to our Just Ask feature, where experts tackle your questions on science and technology. Why do...
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Big scary spiders hiding in banana cargo ships are usually harmless,...
A harmless pantropical huntsman spider, which is often confused with other, dangerous spiders in international shipments. Photo from Wikimedia commons.A cargo ship filled with bananas arrives in a U.S....
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Just how much ice is left underneath Alaska’s glaciers? Scientists dig to...
Scientists are trekking across Ruth Glacier in Denali National Park in Alaska, dragging a sled with ground-penetrating radar equipment over the ice. Their mission: reconstruct this glacier’s history...
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MIT to study every tweet through $10 million deal with Twitter
Twitter is giving MIT access to every single tweet from the past eight years so the Media Lab can study how people use the social networking site. Twitter is giving MIT access to every single tweet...
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Largest number of walruses seen ashore in Alaska is sign of ‘tremendous change’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: When it comes to animal pictures going viral on the Web, the homely walrus hasn’t been at the top of the list, but put 35,000 walruses together on a...
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Freewheelin’ Swedish scientists sneak Bob Dylan lyrics into scholarly articles
May 10, 1966 Bristol Colston Hall – Bob Dylan stares out the window of his limo during a rainy day in Bristol, England in early May 1966. Photo by Flickr user Paul TownsendHow does it feel to reference...
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Diminished sense of smell may indicate imminent death, study finds
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Stephen Poff.In the 1939 melodrama “Dark Victory,” Bette Davis plays a socialite with an inoperable brain tumor. At the film’s conclusion, a sudden loss of vision clues...
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Pinpointing brain’s inner GPS leads to Nobel Prize in medicine win
The images of British-American researcher John O’Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife team May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s...
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News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain’s...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: In other news, three neuroscientists will share this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine for work that could lead to advances in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease....
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Nobel Prize in Physics illuminates accomplishment of blue LED inventors
Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University in JapanThe Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to the inventors of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, shining a light on the creation that...
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Can you find the turquoise in Wednesday’s lunar eclipse?
The band of turquoise across the moon, caught during a total lunar eclipse on December 21, 2010, is from sunlight filtered through the ozone layer. Image by Alan Dyer and spaceweather.com For 59...
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Scientists say DNA determines coffee consumption
Molecular Psychiatry published findings today confirming that six new gene variations are more common in people who consume greater amounts of coffee. Photo by Flickr user Doug88888 Is Java in the...
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How many Nobel Prize winners does it take to improve a light bulb?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSNobel Prize in Physics illuminates accomplishment of blue LED inventors News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain’s ‘GPS’...
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