Science

Has The Media Failed In Covering Climate Change?

November 15, 2012
Wen Stephenson has committed himself to climate activism, after leaving a longtime career as a journalist. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Longtime journalist Wen Stephenson decided he had to become a climate activist. Now he’s back with a message for his former colleagues: You are failing.

Halloween In Space

October 31, 2012
Sunita Williams tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Oct. 15, 2012. "On unloading #Dragon, we found a very thoughful and timely gift from our friends @SpaceX - fall apples!" (Sunita Williams/Twitter)

An unmanned Russian capsule arrived at the International Space Station today to deliver Halloween treats. Check out a slideshow of photos by American astronaut Sunita Williams.

Facebook’s Next Conquest: The Developing World

October 18, 2012
An unidentified boy helps Alaburu Maiga use his cell phone in the village of Gono, Mali. Across the developing world, cell phones are multiplying in villages that still don't have electricity or decent drinking water. (AP/Heidi Vogt)

With more than one billion users, Facebook has more or less conquered the developed world, so now the social media giant is setting its sights on emerging markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

3D-Printed Shoes: The Next Step In Fashion?

October 10, 2012
The 3D-printed shoes are $900 per pair and made to order. (Continuum Fashion)

It used to be that printing your plane tickets at home was cutting edge. Now companies are using three dimensional printers to quickly create almost anything.

Addressable TV Ads: Your TV May Be Watching You

October 9, 2012
Advertisers now have the ability to target their TV ads to specific households, based on customer data. (AP/Ann Heisenfelt)

Marketers have hit upon the Holy Grail of advertising: addressable TV ads. That means two households watching the same show will see two different ads.

Beyond The iPhone: From ‘Roundphone’ To Screenless Smartphone

September 12, 2012
Will a "Roundphone" be the smartphone of the future?

Apple’s big announcement in San Francisco Wednesday got us thinking: what will the smartphone of the future look like?

‘Wicked Bugs:’ From World’s Most Painful Hornet To Disease-Carrying Flies

August 20, 2012
Scabies Mite (Copyright Briony Morrow-Cri​bbs, from the book "Wicked Bugs," courtesy of Algonquin Books)

We revisit a conversation with Amy Stewart, author of “Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army and other Diabolical Insects.”

A Science Lesson With A Nobel Prize Winner

August 9, 2012
A self portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover. (AP Photo/NASA)

Saul Perlmutter’s head isn’t always up in the stars, he’s also fond of places like San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum where he takes his U.C. Berkeley physics and music students. Here & Now producer Emiko Tamagawa caught up with him there last spring.

Summer Drought Dries Up Rivers

August 6, 2012
Platte River near Yutan, Neb., has dried up in some areas as most states experience some form of drought this summer. (AP)

Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the summer drought dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees. Meteorologist Ed Kieser says the plains states are particularly suffering, with only 1/100th of an inch of rain falling in Omaha last month.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sends Pictures Of Mars

August 6, 2012
An artist's rendering shows a rocket-powered descent stage lowering the one-ton Curiosity rover to the Mars surface. (NASA)

The nuclear-powered robotic explorer “Curiosity” has landed on Mars, and is already sending photos of the red planet back home.

‘Curiosity’ Headed For Rendezvous With Mars

August 3, 2012
This artists rendering shows the Mars Rover, Curiosity. After traveling 8 1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity will attempt a landing on Mars the night of Aug. 5. (AP/NASA)

If all goes as planned, Curiosity, NASA’s nuclear-powered rover, will touch down early Monday morning in the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater on the fourth planet from the sun.

Data Mining: What Does The NSA Collect About Americans?

July 31, 2012
(Flickr/lapideo)

National security expert James Bamford says the NSA is building a data mining facility in Utah that will vacuum up information from Americans’ e-mails, cellphone calls and Google searches for future use.

Athletes, Fans React To Olympics On Social Media

July 30, 2012
Team USA basketball star LeBron James posted this photo on the social media photo site, Instagram, with the caption: "Me with one of the best the game of basketball has to offer #USA."

Social media is changing the way people are getting information about the 2012 London Olympics. Fans and athletes at the games are tweeting, posting amateur photos on Instagram and criticizing the way the Olympics are covered by traditional media.

AIDS Researchers Gather In Washington

July 20, 2012

Twenty five thousand AIDS experts and activists will descend on Washington DC this weekend for the International Aids Conference. We speak with Dr. Anthony Fauci about a possible cure, and to a 23-year-old American woman whose mother died of AIDS.

Senator Raises New Questions About Toyota Safety

July 13, 2012
A third generation Toyota Prius is shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. (AP)

Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is looking into whether federal agencies were too quick to wrap up the investigation and clear Toyota over safety concerns.

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