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Climate-related depression: How to handle it
At this point, talking about climate change doesn’t bother biologist Camille Parmesan. She mentioned this after she finished telling me...
November 10, 2008
Sustainable city recipe: location is everything
Columbia University urban designer Mitchell Joachim talks about designing an environmentally friendly city from scratch. "Location is everything," he says.
November 8, 2008
Earth-like planets: The hunt is on
NASA astronomer Drake Deming talks about using brightness detectors similar to those on digital cameras to help in the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars.
November 7, 2008
Bizarre ancient fungus turned deadly frog killer
Erica Bree Rosenblum, a biologist at the University of Idaho, is working to understand a mysterious fungus, found nearly every continent, that's affectog more than 400 frog species.
November 5, 2008
Squeezing more oil out of existing reserves
Shell scientist Willem Schulte says advanced oil recovery technology could help us access vast amounts of oil that remain trapped underground. Read about squeezing more oil out of reserves.
November 4, 2008
Sports in space
We’re in the midst of a financial hornets’ nest, Afghanistan is still in turmoil, and the planet continues to warm....
November 3, 2008
Cars of the future with Mitchell Joachim
Cars of the future: It one runs over a pothole, it can tell nearby vehicles to avoid it. Or it can send a message to a municipal grid to come and repair the pothole.
October 31, 2008
A cuppa hope: Working on the future
A cuppa hope: Some of the smartest people in the world are working hard every day to solve the difficult issues facing us at the beginning of the 21st century.
October 30, 2008
New Milky Way arm gives symmetry
Thomas Dame said that new Milky Way arm recently discovered gives our galaxy "a beautiful bi-symmetric symmetry, like a seesaw, like a butterfly's wings."
October 30, 2008
Biomedical science: Stress test for astronauts
In biomedical science, a scientist working with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute is developing a stress test for astronauts in space.
October 29, 2008
