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Science

Future Tense with Jon Gordon

Microsoft announced yesterday it will make the first mass layoffs in its 34-year history, cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months as demand for personal computers falls.

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3M helps produce 3-D images--without special glasses

3M helps produce 3-D images--without special glasses

3M is working with a number of electronics manufacturers to create cell phones, handheld computers and other small devices that will produce high-definition still images and full-motion video in 3-D.
by Martin Moylan

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Instant change at White House Web site

Instant change at White House Web site

At the same moment Barack Obama became the nation's next president, the White House's Web site was updated to reflect the change. "The White House. President Barack Obama," reads the top of the new home page. "Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. Change has come to America."

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Lake Superior 'love nest' aims to save sturgeon population

Lake Superior 'love nest' aims to save sturgeon population

An effort to help Lake Superior sturgeon become self-sustaining is entering a critical phase. Sturgeon were nearly wiped out in the big lake about a century ago. Crews have been busy this winter, trying to build the perfect sturgeon love nest.
by Bob Kelleher

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DIY invention show gets public television premiere

DIY invention show gets public television premiere

A new TV show produced here in Minnesota premieres on public TV stations across the country this weekend. MAKE:TV highlights creative do-it-yourself projects that tinkers can do at home. However, one look at the show and thoughts of This Old House or Martha Stewart will quickly dissipate.

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2008 Year in Science

2008 Year in Science

The success and failure of the first particle collider dominated headlines this year, but scientists also discovered earthlike-exoplanets and programmable cells. Midmorning looks back on breakthroughs and breakdowns of 2008 and what science can hope for in the Obama administration.

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Art Caplan on living longer

Art Caplan on living longer

In a speech at the Chautauqua Institution this summer, Art Caplan, one of the country's leading bioethicists tried to answer the question: "Is it immoral to want to live longer, be smarter and look better?"

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The war on insects

The war on insects

An Aspen Ideas Festival speech by James McWilliams, author of "American Pests: Our Futile Attempt to Conquer the Insect Empire from Colonial Times to the Death of DDT."

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