Hudson River resistance
Over the last century, we have become accustomed to living our lives without needing to fear death by bacterial infection. Antibiotics, starting with penicillin and sulfonamides, mopped up infections...
View ArticleSeeing the invisible
Over the last few years I have done several films about technologies that render fuzzy images clear. For example, a couple years ago I did a film about Jerry Nelson, the engineer/physicist that led the...
View ArticleFictional scientists on TV
Recently I started binge watching a couple of TV series I somehow never got around to seeing. Star Trek Voyager and Breaking Bad. The Star Trek Captain Catherine Janeway is a scientist turned captain....
View ArticleWhen the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
You may have heard about a study saying women’s hands have more types of bacteria than guys. But, as you’ll see in this ScienCentral video, that study shows other fascinating things: bacteria on your...
View ArticleCyber Attacks. What ScienCentral has in common with The New York Times
The New York Times web site went down two days ago. Hackers hijacked the domain name nytimes.com and redirected users to a site that supports Syria’s current regime. The hackers call themselves the...
View ArticleTooth Bacteria
We have 700 different species of bacteria swarming in our mouths, but only one species causes most of our tooth decay. Another dozen harm us in other ways. The rest – 680 plus species – help keep us...
View ArticleDebate: Is Minecraft educational?
Check out any group of teens or tweens nowadays and you will find the culture vultures among them with a mobile device in hand. They will probably be texting, watching or making videos. However,...
View ArticleAmazing Minecraft map of the UK
Minecraft is a mesmerizing videogame that can be used like an infinitely large digital sandbox. A UK intern, Joseph Braybrook, spent the summer at the UK Ordnance Survey building the largest, most...
View ArticleStem cells
Recently, a Japanese group made an artificial liver from stem cells. Sooner or later we will be able to routinely personalize new body parts to treat a range of diseases, from genetic diseases to...
View ArticlePublic safety
I was recently in Sendai, Japan, known most recently as the epicenter of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and devastating tsunami that washed away or damaged much of northern Japan’s coastal infrastructure....
View ArticleIt is unromantic if you sweat like a horse or my brother
Over the last ten years, increasing evidence has mounted for why mammals choose, keep, and cheat on their mates. MHC, or Major Histocompatibility, is almost half the story. Histocompatibility means...
View ArticleBlatant YouTube Channel theft
YouTube’s form to report copyright infringements Can you spot the fake? ScienCentral has posted hundreds of videos and people link to them, sometimes even post them, one by one to their own sites....
View ArticleLeadership – from adversity to success
Bill George grew Medtronic from a niche maker of cardiac pacemakers to the world’s leading medical device company, pioneering treatments for diseases that effect organs from head to toe. He was driven...
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