The Story of Frozen Food

The eruption of Mt Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and one ancient library was burned to a crisp. However, scientists are now using machine learning and AI to decipher the writing on them and recover lost works of...

This month's Rocks Box is pyrite, also called fool's gold. But this fool's gold might not be so foolish, since we can use it to get all kinds of other minerals we really need, and it may be a key to getting real gold after all.

K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a...

In 1967, James Bedford had a plan to cheat death. He was the first person to be cryogenically frozen. This process promised to preserve his body until a theoretical future when humanity could cure any illness, and essentially, reverse...

When the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, "all hell broke loose." In this far-ranging, entertaining, and deeply insightful talk, Paola Antonelli...

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show...

The people of Palau -- a pristine ocean state made up of more than 300 islands in the western Pacific -- warmly welcome travelers to their home every year. But the guests don't always know how to protect the country's beautiful beaches...

When you picture a parrot, you probably don’t picture Denver, but up until about a century ago, the United States was home to its very own species of parrot: the Carolina parakeet. What happened to this endemic bird?

You aren't the only animal with a pantry!

Kayla Briet creates art that explores identity and self-discovery -- and the fear that her culture may someday be forgotten. She shares how she found her creative voice and reclaimed the stories of her Dutch-Indonesian, Chinese and...

Lighting architect Rogier van der Heide offers a beautiful new way to look at the world -- by paying attention to light (and to darkness). Examples from classic buildings illustrate a deeply thought-out vision of the play of light around...

The Story of Frozen Food

You put a dying person in suspended animation until, possibly thousands of years from now, medical science is able to cure them... or their brain can be put in a sweet robot body. It's an age-old sci-fi trope, but there are scientists...

As anyone who's seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.

In this video Klemens Koehring reads abridged excerpts from Gerrard Winstanley's 'The True Levellers Standard Advanced' published in 1649, a great snapshot of Diggers' beliefs and a sample of the mix of radical social and politics ideas...

Howcast - Don’t waste the last, glorious days of summer feeling depressed that the season is almost over! Try these pick-me-ups instead.

Howcast - Check out part 7 and beat Episode 4: "The Survivors" of Jurassic Park: The Game with this online demo of the third-person adventure .

Howcast - Let chef Michelle Doll show you how to cut a wedding cake in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn how to save your sperm if you have testicular cancer in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn how to make origiri (Japanese rice balls) for your Japanese bento box in this Howcast video with SushiSamba.

Sustainability is a 'guiding principle', says Al Soudah development CEO

DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how ancient Egyptians made mummies by mummifying apples!

Pupil outcome: I can use an essay about place and identity to formulate my own effective discussions on the topic. Key learning points: - Effective discussions will take turns, develop ideas, use evidence and respond to the other...