Monkeys are clever, but we think that NATURE viewers are even more clever! Think you can come up with a funny caption for what’s going on in with these capuchins? See pic…
Research from Yale and the University of Colorado suggests that physical warmth and emotional warmth are linked. In fact, the temperature of the drink you’re holding could influence your feelings of trust and tenderness toward toward the people around you. Awww. Read more…
Watrous works in the lab at the U. of Oregon where The Human Spark team filmed Alan Alda getting a brain scan. One of Scott’s most important responsibilities is making sure that nothing that can react with a magnet gets anywhere near the MRI machine. Watch interview…
A global investigation into one of the greatest crises that mankind has ever faced — can we roll back global warming? Watch this 2-hour documentary, and view the site with more stories, interviews, discussion and more.
(Originally aired 10-21-08)
The Human Spark team spent the weekend in Arizona filming, by the light of a blazing campfire (and a literal truckload of lights, including our very own moon), a conversation Alan Alda had with archeologist Curtis Marean. Watch a video about the making of the scene…
This documentary follows Mark Everett, better known as E, the lead singer of the rock band EELS, as he attempts to understand the fantastic possibility of parallel universes and unravel the story of the father he never really knew—iconoclastic quantum physicist Hugh Everett III. Watch now. Also read an interview with Everett from fellow musician Alina Simone.
Some parrots can talk — but can they really understand what they’re saying? In this podcast, researcher Irene Pepperberg describes her cognitive experiments with African grey parrots, and discusses why the line between human and animal intelligence is sometimes blurry. Listen now…
NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft has spotted snow falling from Martian clouds, and detected evidence of past water at its landing site in the Martian arctic plains. Read more…
CERN’s massive particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland, may create tiny black holes when it goes back online — hopefully — in 2009. Not to worry, though: in this podcast, physicist Dave Wark explains that there’s no way these can destroy the world. Listen now…
Howard Hsu traveled to Burma last spring to report on China’s growing trade with Burma, which is rapidly depleting forests and has created a thriving trade in exotic animals such as tigers, pangolins, and asiatic black bears. Watch video on Frontline/World, and read more about endangered animal poaching throughout Southeast Asia.
