Videos

Space Weavers

Two mathematicians finally found a way to demonstrate hyperbolic space—knitting it.

Shock Waves

Super-fast photography reveals the dynamics of explosions.

Attention Training

A video game, of all things, can improve young children's attention spans.

Scorched Wine

Global warming may push wine grapes out of traditional areas.

Curry Your Brain

Video: A chemical in turmeric could protect you from Alzheimer's.

Speaking Songbird

A human speech gene is found in other sonically skilled animals: songbirds, hummingbirds, bats, and dolphins.

Super Smellers

A mouse with an especially sharp nose could help old folks keep their sense of smell.

Unstoppable Babies

Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep. At all.

Mind Control

A paralyzed man can operate a computer mouse and even a prosthetic hand using a brain implant.

World's Smallest Liver

A nano-sized laboratory could help find cures for liver diseases.

Ocean's Glowing

Most animals in the deep ocean have some kind of luminescence for communication or defense.

Anti-Aging Gene

Can a simple flip of a gene make you live twice as long?

The Search for Sweet

There are about 500 compounds that taste sweet to the human tongue. No one has yet found one that tastes as good as sugar.

Exercise Gene

Exercise activates a gene that turns rats into fat-burning machines.

Interview: Janna Levin

The physicist talks about her work on the creation of the universe, her award-winning fiction, and being on The Colbert Report.

Sage Grouse Bot

 

Got Your Back

A robotic-looking exoskeleton helps take the break out of backbreaking work.

Brain Gardening

Blocking a brain chemical in some people with mental retardation makes their neurons grow like healthy plants.

Caging Carbon

A new device pulls the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Household Robots

Smart machines can adapt to the world instead of needing the world to adapt to them.

Interview: Joe LeDoux

The rock star-neuroscience professor talks about erasing memories, why amnesiacs remember things best, and letting evolution do our thinking.

The Fat Virus

Millions of people are carrying a fat-related virus. But would their knowing make any difference?

Reprogramming Sheep

A low-tech way to turn grazing animals into self-powered weeding machines

Suicide Soothsayer

A blood test could reveal who has suicide hiding in their genes and save a lot of lives.

Gecko + Mussel = Geckel

Combining the abilities of two disparate animals creates an amazing adhesive.

Interview: Danah Boyd

A look at how kids use technology, where mobile phones are going, and the Facebook vs. MySpace smackdown.

Our Smart Saliva

An enzyme in our spit helps digest starchy goods and may have allowed us to grow big brains.

The Vocal Joystick

Using a carefully controlled hum, paralyzed people can control a mouse or robot arm.

Mind-Reading Machine

fMRI imaging can distinguish when you're thinking about a hammer or a screwdriver.