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Jay Harman froze a whirlpool to clean water
Nature likes spirals, from galaxies to shells. Jay Harmon used a natural spiral to design a "frozen whirlpool" for keeping water tanks clean without chemicals.
May 31, 2012
Climate change might drive human evolution
How climate change might have driven turning points in human evolution.
May 29, 2012
Pamela Silver: New fuels from deep sea life
Pamela Silver is exploring the use of deep-ocean extremophiles to create new biofuels. She described the bacteria she works with as “like little batteries.”
May 24, 2012
Brain map locates landmarks for memory, vision, language, arousal
A new brain map provides a clearer picture of how different areas of the brain are physically connected and how these connections relate to basic functions.
May 23, 2012
Neil deGrasse Tyson says science is in our DNA
In this video from BigThink's Humanizing Technology series, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes why science is a truly human activity.
May 23, 2012
Urban heat island effect has upside for oaks in NYC
Red oaks in New York City grew eight times faster than rural oaks. Scientists think the the urban heat island effect was the primary reason.
May 17, 2012
Did the moon help sink the Titanic?
Several months before the Titanic's fateful encounter with an iceberg, the moon had been closer to Earth than in 1,400 years, and it was full just six minutes before.
May 14, 2012
Plastic in Pacific is changing ocean habitats, study shows
In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic has increased by 100 times over in past 40 years. Some sea creatures are now laying their eggs on plastic.
May 13, 2012
Robots used to retrieve valuable info from living brains
Researchers have developed robots - a robot arm guided by a cell-detecting computer algorithm - to identify and record information from the brain's neurons.
May 13, 2012
X-Ray vision on your smartphone?
Researchers have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into X-ray vision devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and other objects.
May 2, 2012
