Science Highlights

Dr. Yvonne Will, senior principal scientist in exploratory medicinal sciences at Pfizer's Global Research Development labs, talks about how an optimistic attitude helps her through the challenges of her work.

This program was recorded at the 12th Annual Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. Wonderfest's broad goals are best described by its mission statement: Through public discourse about provocative scientific questions, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning. In this segment, Richard Zare shows you how to make nylon.

In this kid's science video learn how to make a hovercraft and use science to make it float and move.

This program was recorded at the 12th Annual Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. Wonderfest's broad goals are best described by its mission statement: Through public discourse about provocative scientific questions, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning.

2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Louis Leakey sending Jane Goodall to Gombe Stream, in Tanzania, to begin her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in the wild. The chimpanzee behavioral research she pioneered there has produced a wealth of scientific discovery.

Lise Eliot talks about Pink Brain, Blue Brain. Based on research in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot zeroes in on the precise differences between boys and girls' brains and explains the harmful nature of gender stereotypes. She offers parents and teachers concrete ways they can help all children reach their fullest potential.

Learn about Venus in this short video clip. Venus is the brightest object in the sky, and there are thought to be volcanoes on its surface.

Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, promoting his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins expands on Darwinian selection of the universe.

In this kid's science video learn how to teach your children how to use energy to make things move.

Science comedian, Brian Malow offers a witty insight on viruses.

Learn the ten ways life is different in space, such as the astronauts spine extending, their sponge baths, irregular sleeping and how food is held steady.

It's a whole lot of holes as we find out that life existed on other planets before being eaten by black holes, get an actual look at one, and, just for good measure, find the three smallest planets outside our solar system.

In the kitchen with no time to spare? Go ahead and microwave those eggs! Just be careful that you know the science behind doing it correctly or you're going to make a big mess (and maybe ruin your microwave).

Biologist, David Sloan Wilson, advocates that the science has very similar traits to religion.

In the month of December, we will explore the science of mental health.