Summer is here, and as temperatures begin to rise, a real and dangerous threat lurks inside our cars. Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that as the sun beats...

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Theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates, 2011 National Medal of Science Laureate, devotes his career to making science accessible to the general public.

In this week’s episode, we learn about Google glass type technology for the deaf. We learn how studying tornado debris could help save lives. We discover how sweeping fingers could be the future in password security --and finally, we...

Could lightning really strike twice? It often does in Tornado Alley, where storms wreak havoc and crush entire communities in minutes. But do people see it that way? After the 2006 Iowa City tornado, psychologist Jerry Suls and...

Lighter and stronger than regular metal, metal foam is designed for stronger body and car part replacements. This invention of materials engineer Afsaneh Rabiei is also being tested as body armor for the military. See how it works in...

Having children forced Professor Donna Ginther to better focus on her work and to budget time wisely. It also gave the University of Kansas economics researcher first-hand experience with being a mother in a rigorous, mostly male,...

How are climate models on climate change being improved?

A clean car that you can stack like a shopping cart? That customizes everything from its color to the radio the instant you step in? That you can always find a parking space for? Too good to be true? Nope, it's just one of the brilliant...

In this week’s episode, we learn what makes cheetah’s specialized hunters; new ways of remotely sensing water trends, and finally, we examine fruit bat sonar. Check it out!

The Cold War may be over, but silent dangers still lurk in cyber space. With increasing amounts of sensitive personal information — social security numbers, financial data, stock transactions — finding its way onto computing networks,...

The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth, slipping into something solar, wet and dry disease, and mucus modifications to save lives



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Today, your Passport to Discovery takes you to Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the Green Bank Observatory. This observatory studies radio transmissions from space and boasts the largest movable object on land! What could it be? Come...

Neuroscientist Nina Kraus talks about how the brain hears music. Visit the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory homepage at www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu to learn more about this fascinating research.



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It looks like Fitbit for feet, but it’s actually Google for gait, according to Stacy Bamberg, CEO and founder of Veristride. Veristride, a small business funded by NSF’s SBIR/STTR program, is developing tools to help amputees rehab...

Learn how the SHELTER (TM) device works and see it in action, removing a gummi bear "clot" from a model of blood vessels in the brain.

Spadefoot toads fooled biologists for years, and now the species offers new insights on adaptive evolution



Spadefoot toads are master "shape-shifters," able to make drastic changes to their form and behavior in...

Through an expedition to the Gobi Desert of China, scientists have solved the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds--independent of birds.



The discovery extends the fossil record of the family...

For more than six decades, the National Science Foundation has funded science and engineering research that has led to discoveries and innovations that transformed our world. In episode 53, Charlie and Jordan celebrate by picking a few...

Sea turtles, salmon, and sharks sometimes travel the width of the ocean to return to their, "breeding ground," to reproduce. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Biologist Ken Lohmann at the University of North Carolina -...

Are there any solutions to The Tragedy of the Commons?



What happens when many people seek to share the same, limited resource? This animated series of short videos acts as a video glossary to define specific scientific terms...

For the first time, researchers have developed an inexpensive, secure method to prevent mass credit card fraud using existing magnetic card readers. The novel technique--called SafePay--works by transforming disposable credit card...

Ever curious, Nergis Mavalava knew from a young age that she wanted a career that involved math and science. As a physics professor at MIT, she studies gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory...

A University of Florida team is starting to gather real-time data on the impact of waves and rising water on bridges during hurricanes. Unlike studies that rely on tests in wave laboratories, this research will use data...