WIRED Science Video Podcast | PBS
Summary: Take the DNA of Wired magazine, the first word on how science and technology are changing the world. Add the giant-robot might of PBS. Result: WIRED Science, a new weekly series that brings the magazine's award-winning journalism, groundbreaking design and irreverent attitude to public television.
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Podcasts:
Take a tour with Chris Hardwick of what's inside...your mouth.
These days, major universities, drug companies, and even a few governments maintain their own biobanks, which are basically places where scientists store human parts like brains, blood and livers to use in medical research. WIRED Science visits a biobank in Sun City, Arizona, where the residents are the bank's biggest donors.
Be it A, B, AB or O, must of us don't think about blood until we see it. Physicians at Virginia Commonwealth University are cracking the elusive problem and testing a synthetic blood that cuold be better at transporting oxygen than the real thing.
Learn what puts the "glow" in glowsticks when hsot Chris hardwick delves into the world dof chemoluminescence.
Chris Hardwick investigates the obscure components of something that can be found in man's best friend
Deep underground, scientists are searching for neutrinos, the most elusive particles in the universe.
Chris Hardwick unearths the contents of a product that helps our products grow.
We take a trip to the lab to learn just how a mechanical engineer is keeping America's pastime honest.
While most people associate global warming with impending droughts, floods, and species extinction, some gardeners are reaping the floral rewards of a hotter planet. Is this the upside of global warming or are these gardeners just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
A new wave of lie-detection technology relies on fMRI imaging technology and claims to be able to see inside your mind to tell if you are lying. Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers subjects himself to this new technology and sees whether or not he's even thinking of a lie.
Retired oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer and his colleague tracked thousands of plastic toys that fell off a freighter during a storm to map current patterns. Their work leads them to an unbelievable discovery; a mass of swirling garbage in the North Atlantic as large as the state of Texas.
Chris Hardwick takes a look at the chemical guts of one of America's favorite dessert toppings.
Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers goes in search of an old-fashioned chemistry set experience, and gets radioactive in the processes.
Josh Davis, WIRED Magazine Contributing Editor, investigates the 2007 botnet attack that took down Europe's most wired country.
