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The ability to track the motion of small objects is surprisingly well-correlated with IQ.
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Microscopic organisms represent a vast, unexplored territory for biologists trying to understand the earth’s ecology—including the ecology inside o...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Using precise numbers may give you an advantage in negotiations.
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 01:00
When large animals like toucans are removed from tropical rainforests, the trees suffer.
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Ocean temperature records from a ship that circumnavigated the globe 135 years ago confirm global warming.
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Plants that were frozen in glaciers 400 years ago are growing again as those glaciers melt away.
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 01:00
"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." - Maurice Sendak
In 2009 Newsweek's And...
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 06:00
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When navigating the career path, advises Cynthia Palmer, make sure the jobs you take are the ones you actually want. She talks about the importance...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:27
It was a tough decision, she says, but Terri Taylor left grad school to become a high-school chemistry teacher. She talks about the importance of f...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:30
A 260 million-year-old fossil could be the ancestor of turtles.
- Added: Jun 08, 2013
- Length: 01:00
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Rare species can have a surprising impact on ecosystems.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Researchers discover why chemotherapy makes women infertile – and hopefully, how to stop it.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Weddell seal pups survive infancy with the help of surprisingly large brains.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Obese and diabetic mice have less of a certain gut bacteria, and replenishing the bacteria helps them lose weight.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Researchers have found a gene that gives the malaria parasite safe harbor in mosquitoes.
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. That’s the case at the University of Michigan, where engineer Xiaobo Tan and zoologist Elena Litchma...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
If you’ve ever struggled to put dinner-for-four on the table, imagine trying to feed the estimated nine point two billion people that will be on th...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
If you don’t have time for gardening, you can still turn over a new leaf -- without turning dirt! That is thanks to farmers who offer personal agri...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Putting space heaters in caves might sound…well, batty. But it could mean survival for bats in 17 Eastern states where a new disease has killed an ...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
And to the Red Light District, for birds. Migratory birds make amazing journeys to their wintering grounds and back. But conservation scientist Joe...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
No pesticides in America's classrooms, thank you very much! So says the Environmental Protection Agency. It recently unveiled new guidelines for pe...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
What's the best way to capture a tiger? Carefully! That's sure true for scientist Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He's carefull...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Old-fashioned logic suggests that dead trees pose a greater wildfire risk. And with the pine beetle infestation in recent years leaving thousands o...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
We've all heard about rising carbon dioxide levels. It's a major contributor to global warming. Now scientists say more CO2 may -- ironically -- be...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
