How does your remote control work?

With the punch of a button, your remote sends a different flashing light message, much like Morse code, for each job you want done.

Millennium Villages Project works to eradicate hunger

At least a billion people don't know where their next meal is coming from, according to Pedro Sanchez, director of the Millennium Villages Project.

Global health impacts of climate change

The biggest global health impacts are to people in developing countries, but people worldwide face some risk to their health from climate change.

Going bald is an inherited trait

Baldness is a genetically-inherited trait. A bald head might have been a signal of a good mate early humans. So going bald may be a neutral trait.

AAAS meeting in San Diego

This AAAS meeting consists of scientific talks - hundreds of them, by some of the world's leading scientists - with many going on simultaneously.

Carol Greider on her 2009 Nobel Prize

Carol Greider figured out that an enzyme called telomerase is what prevents our chromosomes from getting smaller and smaller.

Stefanie Held advocates carbon capture and storage

Stefanie Held spoke with EarthSky about carbon capture and storage, a technology being developed to first capture the CO2, then store it safely underground.

Christine Biron studies body’s responders to infection

Natural killer or 'NK' cells really make a difference between health and disease, says Christine Biron, "They can kill, or help kill, virus- infected cells."

Francis Collins, speaks on 5-year priorities

Francis Collins, director of the NIH., spoke to EarthSky about NIH priorities for the next five years.

Do the blind ‘see’ in dreams?

Do the blind dream as sighted people do? It turns out sensory experiences that are important in waking life also play a large role in dreams.