A Look at How Your Hormones Work [Science Video]

Over our lifetimes, our bodies undergo a series of extraordinary metamorphoses: we grow, experience puberty, and many of us reproduce. Behind the scenes, the endocrine system works constantly to orchestrate these changes. Emma Bryce explains how this system regulates everything from your sleep to the rhythm of your beating heart, exerting its influence over each […]

Computers To Make Wimbledon Tennis Highlight Packages

IBM computers are to automatically edit highlight reels of Wimbledon tennis matches. They will look for player emotional displays among other cues. The videos will be uploaded to the website of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which organizes the Wimbledon Championship. The idea is to have clips of every game on the six main […]

What Causes Hallucinations? [Science Video]

A condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome can cause blind patients to hallucinate scenes in vivid color. fMRI studies show that these hallucinations activate the same brain area as sight — which is a completely different region from imagination. Other hallucinations also involve the same brain areas as real sensory experiences. What’s going on? Elizabeth Cox […]