Science

Buzz Aldrin recalls his mission to the moon
Forty years ago today, NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft launched, beginning Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic mission to the moon. MPR's Tom Crann talked with Aldrin about his most vivid memories of going to the moon.
How politics shapes the American space program
On the 40th anniversary of the moon launch, Midday features a documentary about the politics of the space program. It's titled, "Washington, We Have a Problem."
New polls indicates a dim view of U.S. scientific achievement
Though American scientists believe their work is the best in the world, the American public at large take a much dimmer view, according to a new survey by the Pew Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The impact of social networks explored at Aspen
Three journalists on an Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled, "Tweeting the Revolution: Will Social Networking and Journalism Drive Democracy?"
North Korea suspected in cyber attacks
South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday, after a wave of Web site outages in South Korea and the U.S, including sensitive sites at the Pentagon, White House, Treasury Department and NASDAQ. Some observers suspect North Korea is behind the outages.
A theoretical physicist works out the mathematic equations that show time travel to be possible. His autobiography details black holes and circulating lasers, which he claims could be the means to returning to his past and the father he lost.
Differences of opinion on new stem cell policy
The Obama administration has new guidelines on federally-funded human embryonic stem cell research that gives researchers more latitude in the cell lines they may study. Bioethics expert Jeffrey Kahn explores this issue as well as the ethics of patenting genes.
Buying green on a deeper level
Usually an ecology-minded consumer thinks about what to do with a bottle or can. Re-use, recycle, dare to throw away? In a new book, author Daniel Goleman says we ought to think about the products we use way before then.