This Biomimetic Tech Could Mean Fewer Trips to the Dentist (You're Welcome)
AdultsBiotechnologyHealthScienceA new material inspired by mussels may be the key to fillings and crowns that never break or fall out.
The science behind the Impossible Burger
AdultsCreativityFoodNeuroscience...The Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.
A soft silicone 3D-printed heart
AdultsHealthTechnologyBiotechnologySwiss researchers have come a step closer to building a better artificial heart. It's a squishy prototype that's 3D-printed from silicone.
Hydrogel: The Future Of The 'Smart Band-Aid'
AdultsScienceTechnologyHealth...Engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating.
Forget Oxygen-This Leaf Produces Medicine
AdultsHealthNatureTechnology...This artificial leaf creates medicines using sunlight.
The Future Of Agriculture Is Here
AdultsNatureTechnologyBiotechnology...Project Flora Robotica studies the symbiotic relationships between robots and plants.
Muscle-Mimicking Robots Could Change Physical Therapy
AdultsBiotechnologyHealthTechnologyThey are flexible and reconfigurable, and behave like actual human muscles.
How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies
AdultsHealthScienceBiotechnologyWe have the choice to attack one of our oldest enemies with genetic engineering. But should we do it?
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever
AdultsBiotechnologyFutureGenetics...Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.
We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely
AdultsBiologyGeneticsScience...Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases.
How do glasses help us see?
AdultsBiotechnologyScienceHealthToday, glasses help millions of people with poor vision be able to see clearly. But how? Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert help unravel the answer by explaining refraction - the ability of a transparent medium, like glass, water, or the eye, to change the direction of light passing through it.
This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Robot Hand You've Ever Seen
AdultsBiotechnologyHumanScienceThird arm? Robot tentacle? My dreams of having extra tentacles may come true!
Bionic Leg Closely Mimics Natural Body Movements
AdultsHealthBiotechnologyTechnologyMIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr explains how he looks to nature when developing new bionic appendages. The amputee and avid rock climber discusses how his biomechatronics division is pioneering the technologies that aim to augment human physical capabilities.
Transfer Your Consciousness
AdultsBiotechnologySelfCould You Transfer Your Consciousness To Another Body?
Could We Clone Ourselves?
AdultsGeneticsHumanScience...Is the science of Orphan Black realistic? Could we clone humans, or engineer them to have customized traits? We take a look at today's genetic engineering technologies to find out if designer babies and human cloning is, or should be, a reality.
An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
AdultsBiotechnologyDisabilityTechnology...Students at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids.
Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics
AdultsAnimalsBiotechnologyDisability...See how unique, custom 3D printed prosthetics allow Derby the dog to run for the first time.
This double amputee can control two robotic arms with his mind
AdultsBiotechnologyDisabilityTechnology...A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory's Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
Bionic Eye Allows A Blind Man To See After 33 Years.
AdultsBiotechnologyDisabilityHealth...Larry Hester, 66, has been blind for half his life from a condition called retinitis pigmentosa. In September, 2014, an electronic stimulator was surgically implanted in his left eye. On October 1st, 2014 Duke eye surgeon Dr. Paul Hahn turned it on for the first time. While the device does not restore vision in the normal sense, it provides light-and-darkness differentiation.