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The Really Big Questions: What is This Thing Called Love?

The Really Big Questions: What is This Thing Called Love?

The first program in a new series, The Really Big Questions (TRBQ). "What is This Thing Called Love?" Brain scientists, evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, and marriage sociologists explore this question about love. Dean Olsher hosts the series produced by Mary Beth Kirchner, Catherine Winter and Chris Julin.

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Irrigation boosts potatoes, but Park Rapids pays more for water

Irrigation boosts potatoes, but Park Rapids pays more for water

Increased irrigation pumping is driving up the cost of water for residents in Park Rapids, Minn., and is a big reason the state has established one of three groundwater management areas here.
by Dan Gunderson

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Scientists say their giant laser has produced nuclear fusion

Scientists say their giant laser has produced nuclear fusion

The success comes after years of struggling to get the laser to work and is another step in the decades-long quest for fusion energy.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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Young and in love? Thank mom and dad, at least a little

Young and in love? Thank mom and dad, at least a little

Teenagers' relationships with their parents have a small but measurable impact on their romantic relationships up to 15 years later, according to researchers at the University of Alberta.
by Maanvi Singh

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US 'falling way behind' on high-speed internet

US 'falling way behind' on high-speed internet

Law professor Susan Crawford says that American Internet service is falling behind other nations because cable companies have such dominance in many markets, and that will undermine our ability to compete in a global economy.

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Woolly mammoths' taste for flowers may have been their undoing

Woolly mammoths' taste for flowers may have been their undoing

New research shows that these giant creatures depended on flowers rather than grass as a vital source of protein. When the flowers disappeared, the mammoths did, too.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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This artificial hand feels what you touch

This artificial hand feels what you touch

It's not quite the bionics of science fiction, but European researchers have created a robotic hand that gave an amputee a sense of touch he hadn't felt in a decade.
by The Associated Press

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Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand

To feel what you touch -- that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange.
by The Associated Press

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Car-to-car talk: Hey, look out for that collision!

Your car might see a deadly crash coming even if you don't, the government says, indicating it will require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they're plunging toward peril.
by The Associated Press

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Yahoo email account passwords stolen

The breach is the second problem for Yahoo's mail service in two months. In December, the service suffered a multi-day outage that prompted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issue an apology.
by The Associated Press

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