Science Highlights

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria reminds viewers why animal research is so important in this review of a new monkey study coming out of Zhejiang University in Zijingang, China, in which a primate controls a robotic hand with his brain.

In this video, Keith Kendrick delivers a lecture on sheep and their memory capacities.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria and OB/GYN Shari Brasner discuss Rush Limbaugh's recent anti-science statements regarding birth control.

Michio Kaku, a theoretical Physicist explains about the communication used by porpoises and dogs and how we are yet to actually decipher what they are saying and the extent to how intelligent they are.

The world-renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer asks: does knowledge of evolution help us to understand ethics? Our moral compass may have evolved over time, but how does enhancing our reproductive fitness help us work out what is really right or wrong? While evolution is neutral with regard to values, Peter Singer tackles the question of altruism's place in evolution's

The European Space Agency will provide $1.3 billion for a mission to send the “Juice” spacecraft to the outer solar system for three and a half years and search for life on Jupiter’s moons.

Did you know Jupiter was called a wandering star in prehistoric times? Today, we know relatively more about Jupiter and its moons but still our knowledge is very limited. On May 2nd, 2012, the European Space Agency announced its plans for a mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons. Dubbed, JUICE, it will reach its destination by 2030 - about 8 years from its takeoff in 2022.

HuffPost Science correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses the ever-growing problem of space junk.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses in vitro meat, a new technology that may soon revolutionize the way we feed the growing world population.

At what point does a robot become so lifelike that it becomes a human? And vice-versa, at what point does a human with robotic enhancements no longer become a human?

On average, people squander 40 days a year compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people, but after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh looks inside the retired space shuttle Discovery, ahead of its move from Kennedy Space Centre to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.

One of the most heartbreaking moments in American space travel came on January 28, 1986, when the Challenger Space Shuttle broke apart only 73 seconds into its launch. WatchMojo learns more about the events that led to the Challenger disaster.