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Video: Bugs wage chemical warfare with butts and guts
Scientists shined X-rays on the bums of bombardier beetles to determine how they make noxious butt sprays for defense. Illustration by DEA picture library/Getty Images. Scientists are pointing X-rays...
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How did a fake study make it into Science magazine?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, we explore questions about how scientific findings are published and verified, and whether allegations of fraud involving a top science journal...
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These female sawfish prove they don’t need a male to procreate
A juvenile smalltooth sawfish in the Charlotte Harbor estuarine system, Florida. A new study finds that female sawfish can reproduce asexually in the wild. Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife...
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Video: First 3-D bird fossil of South America discovered in Brazil
Reconstruction of the Cretaceous fossil bird from the Araripe Basin, Brazil. Illustration by Deverson Pepi Paleontologists have stumbled upon a bird fossil that is so well preserved its long tail...
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“No more raw bananas!” Study finds chimps would actually prefer flambé
In a recent study, researchers at Harvard and Yale brought out chimpanzees’s inner Julia Child. Photo by Alexandra Rosati Watch out Tom Colicchio. A chimpanzee might be gunning for your job as judge on...
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Why is there a huge methane hotspot in the American Southwest?
A team of scientists scrambles to better understand a gigantic cloud of methane looming over the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. This single cloud is believed to comprise nearly 10 percent...
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What scientists still don’t know about Ebola might surprise you
Cinematographer Cameron Hickey films James Koninga performing a field necropsy of a Mastomys Natalensis rat near Kenema Sierra Leone. Miles O’Brien and team traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the...
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Number of labs mistakenly shipped live anthrax by the military grows
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The Pentagon today gave new information about that scare over live anthrax samples. Officials said 51 labs in 17 states, plus Washington, D.C., and three...
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How close is the Ebola vaccine?
A volunteer receives an Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone. Thousands of these voluntary immunizations have been tested so far in the West African nation. Photo by Cameron Hickey. The quest for an Ebola...
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Bill Nye’s experimental satellite finally sails on the solar wind
An artist’s rendition of the LightSail sun-propelled mini-satellite floating through space. Photo by The Planetary Society It’s a bird…it’s a plane…No! It’s a sun-propelled cubesat! Born in 1999,...
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Synthetic marijuana triggers spike in suspected poisonings
File photo of a marijuana plant outside a clandestine laboratory for drug processing in Zacoalco de Torres, Mexico, on May 24, 2011. The laboratory was used to make synthetic drugs before police raided...
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Using the power of prediction to halt Ebola in its tracks
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to our special series on stopping Ebola. The worst of the epidemic has passed, but, recently, there has been a small uptick in cases in West Africa....
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The real killer in the Ebola epidemic
Miles O’Brien reporting in Sierra Leone for the NewsHour’s four-part series, Cracking Ebola’s code. Photo by Caleb Hellerman Some disasters are more transparent than others. As we departed JFK airport...
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Why testing an Ebola vaccine isn’t so easy
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now the last in our series on Ebola in West Africa — tonight, a look at new research to help stop or slow the next outbreak. The best hope may ultimately...
View ArticleEuropean comet lander speaks after seven-month hibernation
Incredible news! My lander Philae is awake! http://t.co/VtzAQHx4zT pic.twitter.com/SZqnsnNpUZ — ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) June 14, 2015 On Saturday, Philae, the European Space Agency’s comet...
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These six people simulated a mission to Mars on a Hawaiian volcano
Watch VideoSASKIA DE MELKER: High on the slopes of the Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii, six people — three men and three women — have been living inside this dome, completely isolated, for the last eight...
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Web detectives fight illegal poachers
A collection of confiscated cat rugs held by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at their repository in Commerce City, Colorado. Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters The Internet offers access to an elephant’s...
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How bacteria sweat could one day power a robot
Powered by bacteria and evaporation, artificial muscles — called HYDRAs — lift a small pole. Photo by Xi Chen Water, plastic and bacterial spores might become the power source of the future. The spores...
View ArticleChemistry debunks the biggest aspartame health myths
Aspartame has a bad rap. It has been suspected of causing cancer and depression. However, a new video from the American Chemical Society pulls together the latest research on the food additive, and...
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Will climate change stop people from visiting America’s national parks?
After Hurricane Sandy hit Assateague Island National Seashore in 2012, parts of the park’s Bayside Picnic Area and nearby parking were swept out to sea with the rising waters and storm surge. A new...
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