NSF-funded small business NexGen Arrays is developing tests for the detection of viruses, including Ebola, Lassa, and Marburg, directly from blood, near the site of patient care. These tests are based on technology designed to rapidly...

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

Earth’s most indestructible animal used in an attempt show that a multicellular organism can become “quantum entangled”

DIY MEGA Microwave! - Microwaving a Microwave

The video discusses how scientists have discovered that mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of human feet due to the bacteria on the skin. The video features interviews with the researchers and footage of their experiments.

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.



Finding Your Science...

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 -...

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...

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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The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From...

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...