Scientific American Video

No one's saying games cause aspergers, but it made the headlines anyway; a scientist claims there are no E.T.s but no one really believes him, and no one's going to win PETA's X-prize for lab meat.

Fewer rubles from the USSR led to slimmer Cubans, IBM invents an amazing new storage technology, forget about free will and Neanderthalls talked funny.

Visualizing the giant amoeboid tendrils of CO2 the U.S. belches every day, turning those same emissions into plastics, the nanoparticles in your socks could kill, and a tale of two press releases

This week's science news roundup includes rodents joining the club of tool users, Olympians with a gene that lets them beat doping tests, suspended animation and earthquake-detecting laptops.

An extrasolar planet contains methane (which, being organic, could suggest life), Canada's space robot is aweseome, RIP Arthur C. Clarke, and matter vs. antimatter - why did matter win?

We sent our environtment correspondent and our videographer to the Heartland Conference on climate change -- the overriding message? Protection of Polar Bears will lead to fascism. Apparently.

Hobbits or hypothyroidism? Or simply island dwarfism? The Catholic church still isn't down with stem cells, but hurting the environment will earn you a trip straight to heck. And more!

The new seed vault looks exactly like Superman's arctic HQ. Robots are coming to a war near you, and we might all be annihliated by an asteroid in 2036. Plus, bacteriophages vs. MRSA.

The future holds the death of our Sun, the collapse of all galaxies into one giant galaxy, and the disappearance from the night sky of stars, galaxies , and any evidence the Big Bang ever happened

Our lighting round - a high-speed rundown of the best to come out of this year's AAAS meeting, a study that indicates too-connected networks stymie innovation, and help us rename this podcast!

Two new dinosaurs were as big as elephants and hunted in very different ways, scientists use the website Hot or Not to probe human psychology, and a virtual patient debuts

Science goes CSI by collaborating with Interpol on an international sting operation, Bush funds science (sort of), neurotic A.I. wins videogames, and marrying your third cousin leads to more offspring

Inactivity shortens telomeres (and your life), Free Will is a self-fulfilling prophecy, mapping the brain will take more computers than Google currently owns, and Creationism gets its own journal

Quantum bits, or qubits, don't have to be a 0 or a 1, unlike bits in a regular computer -- this allows them to perform some amazing feats. Too bad they only last a few seconds.

Cloned meat, Yeast years (like dog years), a computer that understands dog barks and sociologists who study facebook -- all on this week's episode of The Monitor