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Miles O'Brien

Sheriffs' deputies look at wreckage from the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo near Cantil, California November 2, 2014. A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Fr

As businesses enter the space race, the need to make a buck leaves questions about safety

Business

Hundreds of people have booked flights with Virgin Galactic to go to space at $250,000 a ticket. But what exactly are people signing up for?

Pizzas

Think you want authentic Italian pizza? Think again

Global Scan
PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien

Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment

Environment

The Technology of the Boston Bombing Manhunt

Conflict & Justice

Understanding the Brains of Mass Killers

Transit of Venus Visible in Today’s Sky

Seeing the transit of Venus is a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The planet passes in front of the Sun on two occasions eight years apart – and then not again for about a century. There was a transit in 2004 and another one will occur tonight. If you miss that, you’ll have to wait until 2117 to […]

Is the Private Era in Space Officially Upon Us?

The United States, Russia, Japan, the European Union, and SpaceX: what do they all have in common?  If all goes smoothly over the next few days, each entity will have successfully, and at some point historically  brought a vessel to the International Space Station. Yesterday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule lifted off en […]

Scientist Warned of Tsunami Disaster in Japan

Global Politics

Long before the tsunami hit Japan last year, paleontologist Koji Minoura had been warning of the danger. Minoura found evidence that a huge tsunami hit Sendai in the year 869, and he cautioned that a similar disaster was overdue.

Frontline Doc Looks at Fukushima and Nuclear Energy

The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last year brought attention to the safety risks associated with atomic energy. Before Fukushima, nuclear energy was on the rise and many countries developed plans to build more power plants. But after the disaster, nuclear energy became a subject of international debate and […]

The World

Modernizing the airplane: GPS to replace radar

Development & Education

The Senate passed a $34.5 billion bill on Monday that will bring in GPS technology to replace radar. This is an attempt to help modernize our country’s dated air traffic control system.