Science Jul 25 Watch 2:48 A brief but spectacular take on how animals and continents are interconnected Although Prosanta Chakrabarty grew up in Queens, he always loved nature. The wonder of the world's creatures inspired him to study biology, a field that illuminates which of Earth’s beings are related to one another -- and how an event…
Science Apr 25 Watch 6:47 Why humans may have more in common with chimps than we thought What can humans learn about ourselves from studying chimpanzees? Primatologist Frans de Waal has spent almost three decades studying the behavior and intelligence of chimpanzees. Now, he’s focused on their emotional lives--and he’s found primates and people aren’t so different… By Jeffrey Brown, Leah Nagy
Science Apr 06 Paul Rudd and the science behind youthful skin Why isn't Paul Rudd aging? For his 50th birthday, PBS NewsHour asked three dermatologists for tips on recreating the Paul Rudd effect. By Nsikan Akpan
Science Mar 15 This new ‘army’ of spiders is named after Star Wars stormtroopers They wouldn’t survive the deserts of Tatooine or the frigid planet Hoth, but these newly described, tarantula-like spiders are named after the stormtroopers who marched through the “Star Wars” movies. By Vicky Stein
Jul 05 Spiders fly on the currents of Earth’s electric field By Amanda Grennell Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can… Continue reading
Oct 04 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to ‘cool’ 3D pictures of bioarchitecture By Nsikan Akpan Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures. Continue reading
May 08 Can’t resist candy? You may have this mutation By Nsikan Akpan If you’re a candy lover or denier, you may want to blame one of your liver hormones, according to a new study. Continue reading
Apr 24 Naked mole rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen. Here’s why. By Andrew Wagner It has a little something to do with sugar. Continue reading
Feb 09 Pill bugs emerged from the sea to conquer the Earth By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science Pill bugs are more closely related to shrimp and lobsters than crickets or butterflies -- plus other little known facts about roly polies. Continue reading