Part 2 of 2. ScienCentral is taking science to the people in its latest installment of "Street Corner Science", in which a film crew and a renowned scientist are plunked down on a busy city street corner, and an impromptu Q&A session with the public ensues!
It's the fifth anniversary of NASA's rover mission to Mars, but both "Spirit" and "Opportunity" were only supposed to last three months. The rovers just made it through another Martian winter to reach yet another incredible milestone.
Scientists are finding that the jet stream, that river of air that pushes storms across the country, is moving towards the north and south poles. This ScienCentral News video explains.
The Lasker Foundation has announced that Doctors Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, and David Baulcombe won the Lasker Medical Prize for their discovery of micro-RNA molecules, and their role in gene regulation.
Fifty years inthe making, solar-power cells are still flat, rigid, and ugly. But new research shows how they could be made lightweight, flexible, and transparent. These innovations could expand solar-cell use to things like solar fabrics and power generating windows.
Is getting more exercise among your New Year's resolutions? Well, how about some training for your brain instead? Researchers have put people through a series of brain exercises - a "brain boot camp" - and found that just like exercise for your body, exercise for your brain pays off.
Is bionic vision in your future? It might be if engineers can perfect a contact lens filed with electronics. As this ScienCentral News report explains, engineers have demonstrated how to put electronics inside a contact lens.
Lack of sleep often comes at times when we need to perform at our best. Now brain researchers studying how sleep deprivation impairs memory have found a potential remedy.
For the first time, researchers have prevented the typical age-related decline in a whole organ, allowing old mice to have livers that keep working like when they were young. This ScienCentral News video reports on a strategy that researchers think could lead to treatments for age-related decline in other organs, such as the brain. Brain animation courtesy iStockphoto.com/Piot r Podermanski.
Underwater robots that swim like fish and work together without someone remotely controlling them? While it seems like the premise for a movie, it's actually a project underway right now.
Who is digitizing all those old books so we can read them online? Surprisingly, the answer might just be you...
This ScienCentral News video explains how twenty million words a day are now digitized by regular internet users, thanks to a new anti-spam program called "re-captcha". For the full article on how this technology works, go here: http://tinyurl.com/6 dyz8y
Genes don't just tell whom you're related to or why you look a certain way; now, they can also tell you where you came from. Researchers have created a genetic map of Europe, and they hope to expand it globally, as this ScienCentral News video explains.
As if winning $1.5 million wasn't enough, the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry also get an enthusiastic "shout out" from us. As storytellers who rely on images or video to report on scientific discoveries , our jobs have been made a whole lot easier thanks to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien.
Scientists have discovered that a large expanse of a musician's brain "shuts off" while improvising music. This ScienCentral News video explores a note-worthy study of the human brain.
Why are flies so hard to swat? It took the world's top fly researchers at Caltech to give us the answer. ScienCentral's Sunita Reed reports on a finding that will give you pointers the next time you reach for your swatter.
Live, 3D holographic movies are now a big step closer. As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers are developing them using a new material that makes holograms rewritable.
Video games aren't just for kids. Researchers are now using the same technology that runs games to create realistic simulations of biological systems. As ScienCentral News reports, this approach could speed up research into diseases and drug therapies.
The holy grail of cancer detection is a simple blood test that would spot signals of cancer early enough to cure it. Now genetics researchers report a surprising discovery that could lead to such tests.
