"Lucy" Debunked
A neurobiologist reveals sci-fi thriller Lucy’s neuroscience bloopers.
3m Aug 07, 2014
3m
Can an Experimental Therapy Be Used to Treat Ebola?
A look at the experimental therapy used to treat two Americans who were infected with Ebola.
12m Aug 07, 2014
12m
Giving Viruses a License to Kill...Cancer
Scientists transform common viruses like measles and herpes into potential cancer treatments.
16m Aug 07, 2014
16m
Behind the Scenes at the City Morgue
Forensic pathologist Judy Melinek’s memoir Working Stiff goes behind the scenes at the New York City morgue.
21m Aug 07, 2014
21m
Listening In on Elephant ‘Mating Pandemonium’
In a “mating pandemonium” event, a group of elephants roar after a pair of elephants mate.
8m Aug 07, 2014
8m
Will Big Data Answer Big Questions on Health?
Google's latest big idea is called "Baseline Study"—an effort to catalog the DNA of thousands of healthy people, along with their blood, urine, saliva, breath, and tears.
16m Jul 31, 2014
16m
Can’t Stop Worrying? Blame It on Your Habenula
The habenula is a pea-sized part of the brain that tracks our expectations of negative events.
6m Jul 31, 2014
6m
Tapping Into Musical Memory
A new documentary, Alive Inside, exposes the connections between music and memory.
23m Jul 31, 2014
23m
Can Animals Go Mad?
From depressed dogs to anxious gorillas, author Laurel Braitman explores mental illness in animals.
16m Jul 31, 2014
16m
How Ultramarathons Affect the Heart, Blood, and Brain
Exercise scientists Tamara Hew-Butler and Greg Whyte talk about how the body changes after dozens of hours in motion.
17m Jul 31, 2014
17m
Ebola Outbreak Continues in West Africa
Ebola specialist Daniel Bausch provides an on-the-ground view of treating the disease in West Africa.
12m Jul 31, 2014
12m
HIV/AIDS Update
A round-up of the latest HIV/AIDS research news and an update from the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
17m Jul 24, 2014
17m
New Online Tracking Tool Evades Privacy Settings
A new online tracker is snooping on visitors to over 5,600 popular sites—and it's nearly impossible to block.
12m Jul 24, 2014
12m
The SciFri Book Club Introduces Dune
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker introduce the SciFri Book Club’s summer selection: Dune.
17m Jul 24, 2014
17m
What’s the Real Cost of Your Steak?
Cattle require 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water than eggs or poultry.
11m Jul 24, 2014
11m
A Newly Discovered Virus That Lives in Our Gut
Researchers discovered a virus that lives in the gut of half of the world’s population.
7m Jul 24, 2014
7m
Mosquito-Borne Viruses Raise Public Health Concern
This summer, two different and currently untreatable mosquito-borne viruses were identified on the East Coast.
12m Jul 24, 2014
12m
Hr2: Soft Robots, Carlo Rovelli, Seahorse Pregnancy
Seahorses are one of the few vertebrates where males become pregnant and give birth to offspring. A look at squishy, flexible robots. And physicist Carlo Rovelli explains how our understanding of reality has changed over centuries.
48m Jan 01, 1970
48m
Hr2: Atomic Data Storage, Living in Political Bubbles, Leaping Electric Eels, Women of the Apollo 11 Mission
A look at the problems with living in a political bubble, and the stories of women who wrote code for the Apollo 11 mission.
47m Jan 01, 1970
47m