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Ku’ulei Rodgers says Hawaii’s corals are dissolving
Coral scientist Ku'ulei Rodgers says that Hawaii's coral reefs may start to dissolve faster than they can build back up.
February 15, 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Pluto debate
Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how In the mid-1990s, researchers were discovering objects that were small and icy like Pluto, with elongated orbits like Pluto.
February 15, 2010
Stefanie Held advocates carbon capture and storage
Stefanie Held spoke with EarthSky about carbon capture and storage, a technology being developed to first capture the CO2, then store it safely underground.
February 15, 2010
Vote on Pluto: Should it be called a planet?
February of 2010 marked the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Astronomer and author Ken Croswell told us how you can vote on Pluto, if it should be a planet.
February 15, 2010
Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA’s future
"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger, about the new NASA budget. "I see this as a shake-up ..."
February 8, 2010
Vasily Titov on advances in tsunami forecasting
Vasily Titov explained that, today, as soon as an earthquake hits the Pacific, scientists collect data from tsunami detectors sitting at the bottom of the ocean.
February 8, 2010
Solar Dynamics Observatory studies sun in super HD
The Solar Dynamics Observatory studies the solar storms the drive our space weather here on Earth. It carries instruments to take detailed images of our sun.
February 8, 2010
Christine Biron studies body’s responders to infection
Natural killer or 'NK' cells really make a difference between health and disease, says Christine Biron, "They can kill, or help kill, virus- infected cells."
February 8, 2010
Destination Moon, a scifi classic
Destination Moon refers to the 1950 scifi classic. Across the board, the media makes inexcusably egregious mistakes, and promotes misconceptions, about our moon.
February 6, 2010
Himalayan glaciers error: Setting the science straight
I called up the leader of a team of glaciologists determined to set the record straight the IPCC's "2035 error" related to Himalayan glaciers.
February 2, 2010
