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Robots are great at doing a lot of things, but they have trouble interacting with the physical world. Roboticists in Pittsburgh ar ...

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

There’s been quite a buzz in the San Francisco Bay Area recently about something called ‘The Impossible Burger’. Imposs ...

Paul Santoleri AKA Pawzant Producer: Michael O’Reilly If you are a French-speaker and try to say Pa ...

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

Snow scientists at Montana State University are tracking risky decision making in the backcountry. The ski season began in Decembe ...

Many nursing homes try to replicate the feeling of home for the ...

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...

For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care.  About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...

Segment: EAT Café: Everyone at the Table Producer: Monica Rogozinski The EAT Café is Philadelphia ...

When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.

On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...

Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...

With one phone call, Navin Vij went from seeing himself as a doctor to seeing himself as a patient. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, an ...

Michael Bohannan-Calloway was diagnosed with cancer in January 2010. Doctors told him it was treatable but incurable. Looking for guidanc ...