ScienceScope
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If you plan to join the 5,000-year-old tradition of eclipse watching next Monday, here are five things you need to remember. Continue reading
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If you enjoy a beer on a summer day, you can thank yeast, the microbes that ferment sugar into alcohol and give beer its character. After innumerable generations of using just two types of yeast, a lab in North Carolina has discovered a new yeast that produces a variety of flavors, and it comes from the weirdest source: bees. Science producer Nsikan Akpan reveals what the buzz is all about. Continue reading
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Only two species of yeast — ale yeast and lager yeast — have been used for traditional beer brewing over the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest place: On bees and wasps. Continue reading
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Last year, we broke the story of a robot being being developed to fight invasive lionfish. This spring, the prototype landed in the open ocean for the first time. Here’s how they took the idea from paper to practice. Continue reading
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A North Carolina startup grows “biocement” bricks to circumvent the hefty load of fossil fuels needed for normal cement. Continue reading
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A third of the planet’s coral reef ecosystems are at risk of being damaged by warming sea temperatures and subsequent coral bleaching. Is it possible for these sea creatures to survive and adapt? NewsHour’s science producer Nsikan Akpan and producer Matt Ehrichs investigate this question on a voyage deep below the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading
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Coral bleaching threatens a third of the planet’s reef ecosystems, but can these creatures adapt? Take a voyage deep into the Atlantic Ocean, as the Nekton Mission searches for an answer. Continue reading
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The lionfish has always been a relentless predator. When it lived only in the Indo-Pacific, its ferocity and aggression were contained. But since the species has expanded to the Atlantic, its overpopulation is threatening fellow aquatic creatures. So scientists are developing a robot to hunt the predator, thinking that killing mass numbers of lionfish may be the only way to combat the problem. Continue reading
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A nonprofit company is engineering robots to cull invasive lionfish, a detrimental species in the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading
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Rescue dogs are super-smellers, and the motley crew of scientists is figuring out why. Continue reading