This morning, power was restored to almost 4 million residents in Arizona, Southern California, and northern Mexico after a major blackout swept through the area yesterday afternoon.
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Read More »Menstruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using
I love science, and I love the scientific method.
Read More »Batteries Could Get Algae Boost
Common batteries are electrochemical cells. And they may get better thanks to living cells: the multicellular organism called brown algae.
Read More »Pieces of the Human Evolutionary Puzzle: Who Was Australopithecus sediba?
Few things remain as mysterious--or controversial--as our own history as a species. [More]
Read More »NYC’s Ring of Steel pt 2: Central Command
In the second of three videos, we visit the central hub of New York City's 'Ring of Steel', the expansive camera network keeping watch over Lower Manhattan.
Read More »Pennsylvania Hit by Huge Flooding, Towns Submerged
* Flooding persists in Pennsylvania, other states * Swollen Susquehanna River crests in city of Wilkes-Barre [More]
Read More »Shaping Up: 10 Engineering and Design Facts about One World Trade Center [Infographic]
NYC’s Ring of Steel pt 1: Street View
The terrorist attacks of September 11th drastically changed the security strategy of NYC. A massive camera network, dubbed the 'Ring of Steel' , is at the heart of this new strategy. In the first of three videos we watch it as it watches us.
Read More »Quake Shook U.S. Nuclear Plant Twice as Hard as Design Allowed
By Roberta Rampton ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - Last month's record earthquake in the eastern United States may have shaken a Virginia nuclear plant twice as hard as it was designed to withstand, a spokesman for the U.S. nuclear safety regulator said on Thursday.
Read More »How Young Children Learn about Terrorism and 9/11
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a shocking and emotionally raw event that most adults, especially in the U.S., still have trouble comprehending . For children under 14, however, the events of that day are but a page of history, a modern-day Pearl Harbor. Now, with the 10th anniversary of these attacks upon us, psychologists, educators and parents are thinking again about how best to teach children about the traumatic day and its aftermath--as well as the complicated threat of terrorism .
Read More »Smartphone Antennas Could Double Network Capacity
More than half-a-billion smartphones will likely be sold in the coming year.
Read More »NASA Grapples with U.S. Space Security in Post-9/11 Era
The terrorist attacks that shook the United States 10 years ago had effects that reached all the way into space. Not only did the events of Sept. 11, 2001, prompt NASA to immediately beef up its already strict security procedures, they forced military space officials to reassess their priorities regarding space security and triggered a shift in space policy .
Read More »A Stern Commentary: Howard Stern Calls Out Rick Perry for His Anti-Science Views
No shortage of articles have been published about the deep distrust exhibited by most 2012 Republican presidential candidates toward specific scientific findings--notably evolution and climate change--as well as in some cases toward science itself. [More]
Read More »Rocket Failure Exposes Space Station Vulnerability
* New station crew will not fly until problem found, fixed * Former commander says it is time to bring in the Chinese [More]
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