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Science and Creativity from Studio 360: the art of innovation. A sculpture unlocks a secret of cell structure, a tornado forms in a can, and a child's toy gets sent into orbit. Exploring sci...
It's hard to believe, but the words "time" and "travel" were never really linked until H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, "The Time Machine." James Gle...
In 2012, Studio 360 aired a story about a pair of artists — a husband and wife team named Leonor Caraballo and Abou Farman. In 2008, Carabal...
When artists and scientists collaborate, it's usually because an artist wants to make a piece of art inspired by some scientific concept. Bu...
Nothing clears a dinner party faster than talking about math. But maybe what the subject needs is a friendly ambassador. Someone like Eugeni...
Charles Limb is a professor of otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins Medicine who has a sideline in brain research; he's also on the faculty at th...
Dr. Eric Kandel is a neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who won the Nobel Prize for his research...
When you hear a singer like the late Whitney Houston belt out a song like "I Will Always Love You," you're listening to a marvel of vocal sk...
Talking about building an interstellar space ship makes you sound like a sci-fi fan who's lost touch with the real world. Unless you're Mae...
Science and Creativity from Studio 360: the art of innovation. A sculpture unlocks a secret of cell structure, a tornado forms in a can, and...
Amateur paleontologist Jon Halsey isn't afraid to turn over a few rocks. By digging in areas near his home outside of Dallas, he's been able...
The desirable robot has been a trope in science fiction for almost a century, from the femme fatale Maria in Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Gigo...
At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum , they have curators for everything you would expect, like telescopes, missiles, planetary...
After piano music helped him recover from brain surgery, Dr. Richard Fratianne became a true believer in music therapy. In the burn unit at...
Now that virtual reality is becoming a consumer product that costs less than a smartphone or video game console, what will that mean for the...
Since the dawn of humanity, more or less, people have used representations of animals to tell stories. We drew pictures of them on the walls...
What makes us have especially productive sessions — those minutes or hours when you're so immersed in what you're doing that everything melt...
Lots of kids have imaginary friends. (A young Kurt Andersen had a gaggle including Robbie Dobbie, Crackerpin, Jimmy the Cat, a poodle called...
The man nicknamed “the father of creativity” was psychologist E. Paul Torrance. In the 1940s he began researching creativity in order to imp...
Few readers of science fiction can name any African-American writers in the genre apart from Samuel Delaney and Octavia Butler. Black author...
You can write a movie about a gravity-defying superhero or a time-traveling zombie, and if you make that movie in Hollywood, you're probably...
On any given day, 2,000 scientists and engineers work at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. They’re analyzi...
Until recently, virtual reality has been the stuff of science fiction. But last year, Facebook placed a large bet on the future of the mediu...
When Tom Fontana was a producer on the show “St. Elsewhere” in the 1980s, he loved to push the boundaries of weirdness that he could get awa...
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse runs a biophysics lab at Stanford University, but he spends about half his time tinkering with videogames . He’s not pla...
Patrick Winston is a researcher at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating better artificial intelli...
For over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers. Photographer David...
AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is...
Everywhere we go, we leave a trail of personal information — in the stray hairs that land on park benches, or saliva on the edges of coffee...
Bringing extinct animals back has usually been left to the world of science fiction. But a group of biologists is attempting it in the real...
A Louisiana physician (and amateur filmmaker) teamed up with a cinematographer to invent a system that they say improves the quality and rel...
If just reading the word “drone” makes you nervous, you’re not alone. Americans have been uneasy – fascinated but nervous – ever since unman...
Neuroscience is a vast field. Here’s how Greg Dunn describes it: “It’s as if in New York, there’s like a little neighborhood for electro-phy...
Take a look at Laurie Frick ’s artwork, made up of colorful wooden blocks mounted to the gallery wall, and the first thing you think of is a...
The LEGO brick as we know it was released in 1958. But it wasn’t until 20 years later that the company made its first minifigure, or “minifi...
Synthetic biology sounds like a field inaccessible to the layperson, but Kurt Andersen has been seeing these ideas play out in pop culture f...
Actor Steven Kearney reads excerpts from Greg Bear 's 1985 novel Blood Music . Bear was one of the first sci-fi authors to delve deep into t...
We usually praise art for sparking a conversation and even making us uncomfortable — but does that mean anything bio-artists do is totally c...
Few artists have embraced bio-hacking as much as Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr . They’re a husband and wife team who run SymboticA , a lab for b...
The innovations that are happening in synthetic biology will change life on Earth. But most of the decision-makers in the field are at large...
We all know the Thomas Edison line: genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. But there are those who don't seem to perspire at all. Their...
Frances Arnold is a biochemical engineer at Cal Tech working on one part of the energy crisis. In a process called “directed evolution,” Arn...
More than 25 years ago, the largest audience ever for a TV movie tuned to ABC to watch a simulated nuclear holocaust. “ The Day After ” focu...
EEG — electroencephalography — is almost a century old, and it’s creeping out of the research lab and the neurologist’s office. Headsets emb...
"Dark matter" has been in the news again lately as scientists in Switzerland have begun mapping what they believe is its prevalence across t...
Nearly a decade after the human genome was decoded, scientists are only now beginning to understand its implications. One of the leading thi...
To make art, a computer first needs to understand what art is. A group of computer scientists at Brigham Young University is attempting this...
What makes a hit? A catchy hook? A good beat? Even the experts can’t really explain what the recipe is. “You can check off all of those chec...
Vart (it rhymes with fart) is software engineer Jenn Schiffer’s experiment in teaching herself, and others, more about art by coding. She de...
Charles Limb is a professor of otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins Medicine who has a sideline in brain research; he’s also on the faculty at th...
Big Data — and how we use it — is changing the way we understand our culture and history. Research scientists Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean...