Videos
Videos
Space Weavers
Two mathematicians finally found a way to demonstrate hyperbolic space—by 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.
Enjoying Aggression
Being aggressive presses a pleasure button in the brain—and it might even be addictive.
Building with Photos
Smart software can turn tourists' ordinary snapshots into a 3-D model.
Power from Apple Pie
Researchers are using bacteria to turn everything from garbage to cellulose into fuel.
No Head Start
The brains of kids with ADHD mature about 3 years later than other kids'—but they catch up in the end.
The Ups and Downs of Forgetting
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 1
Music Soothes The Savage Brain
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 2
Where is Consciousness?
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 3
Humans: Natural Born Teachers
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 4
The Abu Ghraib Guard in All of Us
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 5
Fiction: A Laboratory For Possibilities
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 6
Your Brain Decided Without Telling You
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 7
Sometimes 1 Life > 5 Lives
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 8
Taking Neuroscience to Court
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 9
Why Most of Your Ideas Are Terrible
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 10
Subliminal Messages and Violence
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 11
How Thought Becomes Action
Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain, Part 12
Earth's Own Underwater Aliens
Marine biologist Edie Widder's underwater spy camera finally gives humans a chance to see the freaky world of deep-ocean bioluminescent animals.
Life on Europa?
NASA is betting $4 billion that there's life in strange, frigid oceans on Jupiter's mysterious moon.
The Evolution of Swine Flu
Michael Worobey and other evolutionary biologists worked around the clock this spring to analyze the genetics of swine flu.
Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
Former CDC director Jeff Koplan says preparedness is a relative thing.
The Psychology of Genetic Testing
Even geneticist Tara Matise was curious about—but not spooked by—having her genetic palm read.
Reading Women's Biological Clocks
Computational geneticist Tara Matise looks for biomarkers that predict when women will become infertile.
When Less Information Is More
NYU medical geneticist Harry Ostrer says commercial genomic testing can leave consumers confused—and scared.
Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?
This panel discussion was based on a recent Big Questions essay series sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. The panel was moderated by DISCOVER editor-in-chief Corey Powell and hosted by Yale University.
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