Month: May 2018
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Bill Gates wants to build a newer, safer nuclear reactor.
There’s some renewed interest in TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed company that’s trying to make a long-time dream of nuclear reactors a mainstay of the industry. Most nuclear reactors around the world are water-cooled, a design chosen because the Navy was the first to develop usable reactors for their nuclear submarines. Water-cooled designs were considered safer…
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Teamwork makes the dreamwork: success in Western Malaysia
Ed. Note: Elizabeth Scordato is an evolutionary biologist at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, studying how environmental variation influences the evolution of bird signaling and the formation of new species. From April to June of this year, Liz is conducting field research on the Pacific swallow in Malaysia, Fiji, and Japan, and will be making…
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Junk news pioneer, Antarctic research, Hawking’s last paper: this week in science
Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Behind the scenes of junk news production In this week’s installment of our PBS NewsHour series on Junk News, we introduced you to Cyrus Massoumi, prolific publisher of junk news. Cyrus is a gifted marketer with a passion for…
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Near miss of airline collision highlights aviation industry safety issues.
It was the worst aviation disaster that very nearly happened. An Air Canada Airbus A320 on approach to San Francisco International Airport in July of last year lined up to land on a taxiway where four airliners were waiting in line for departure. Pilots on those planes, an air traffic controller and the crew aboard…
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A Junk News Pioneer – with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 2
Russian actors may have run an online disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential elections, but they likely learned their tactics from Americans. As part of our investigation, PBS NewsHour series producer Cameron Hickey tracked down one of these junk news pioneers, Cyrus Massoumi. He runs liberal and conservative junk news sites, which have millions…
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New research affirms MDMA’s benefit as PTSD treatment. What’s next?
The prospect of using MDMA, better known as “Ecstasy” or “Molly,” to treat post-traumatic stress disorder just got an important boost. The Lancet, a highly respected medical journal, published a study showing dramatic improvement in more than two dozen veterans and firefighters who were treated with MDMA in a study conducted in Charleston, South Carolina.…
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