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Guest Post: Can Creativity Be Measured in a Laboratory?
Scientists are becoming more interested in trying to pinpoint precisely what’s going on inside our brains while we’re engaged in creative thinking. Which brain chemicals play a role? Which areas of...
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Guest Post: Is Brain Training Real?
The brain's neuron, a remarkably plastic, trainable cell. Each of the brain’s 100 billion neurons has somewhere in the realm of 7,000 connections to other neurons, creating a tangled roadmap of about...
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From The Lab: A Future Barely Glimpsed
A giant laser chamber being attended to by a scientist at Livermore's National Ignition Facility. You can always tell you’ve gone too far when you reach the wind farms. They populate the barren wastes...
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From The Lab: Google World Science Fair and a New Generation of Idea-Makers
The Google Science Fair: the first-ever global internet science competition is sure to have a tremendous impact on science education and innovation. In his State of the Union speech in January, US...
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Editor’s Selection: Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema
Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema book cover ©2011 MIT Press, all rights reserved Read through any archive of science fiction movies, and you quickly realize that the merger of pop...
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From The Lab: Pharmaceutical Documentary a Blueprint for Hollywood Science...
A vial of the breast cancer drug Herceptin. Image ©Reuters, all rights reserved. “It’s like a war. You don’t know whether you’re going to win the war. You don’t know if you’re going to survive the war....
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Searching For The Next “MacGyver” (On TV And On Campus)
MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff, a judge, mentor and sponsor of The Next MacGyver STEM competition in LA. ©2015 Paley Center For Media. Engineering has an unfortunate image problem. With a seemingly...
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Citrine Informatics: Jump-Starting the Materials Science Revolution
Materials engineers performing research in the laboratory. Image ©Wonderful Engineering, all rights reserved. The last 25 years have brought an unprecedented level of scientific and technological...
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Podcast: Disrupting Incubator Innovation With “Lab Launch”
Front entrance of LA-based Lab Launch scientific incubator hub. The current scientific landscape can best be thought of as a transitional one. With the proliferation of scientific innovation and the...
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How Animation Technology Is Helping Scientists Visualize Data
A spiral galaxy in the Dorado constellation created by a black hole. Technology from the film Interstellar is helping scientists gain greater understanding of this phenomenon. (credit: Roberto...
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