In February, NATURE fans voted for their favorite episodes. Now, the results are in!
Watch the top nine viewer picks on NATURE this summer. Your favorite episodes hit the airwaves each Sunday night starting July 6, through August 31.
This weekend, nearly every community in America stages a fireworks display. So is there a cumulative effect on the environment from the chemicals exploded into our atmosphere? Read more…
What archaeologist Dennis Jenkins found in the Paisley Caves in south central Oregon may turn on its head the theory of how and when the first people came to North America. Read more…
More than a decade after antiretroviral treatments for HIV first debuted, HIV mortality rates have declined dramatically and they continue to drop in countries where patients have access to the drugs. Read more…
Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the ethical issues raised by commercial genetic testing. Listen to the interview…
GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS visits Glacier Bay in Alaska, where rivers of ice march into the ocean and bears fish from the water’s edge. Watch a clip:
This week, Congress held hearings on the record high prices. Daniel Yergin, Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, was among those who testified. He sat down with Charlie Rose to discuss the oil crisis.
George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence the DNA of each and every one. With that many genomes, combined with personal information, Church believes we’ll have a chance of getting at the root causes of common diseases and how to prevent them. Watch the video…
100 years ago today, the skies in a remote area of Siberia split open, and havoc rained on the earth for hundreds of miles in every direction. The Tunguska explosion is believed to be the largest impact event on land in Earth’s recent history. Read more….
In April, two lions died in the Mara Reserve on the border of Kenya and Tanzania shortly after eating contaminated hippo meat. Eventually, tests confirmed that the hippo meat contained Carbofuran, a pesticide that has been widely banned. Read more on this story and the larger issue at hand here.
