How Movie Makers Use Science To Make Magic

From the muscle-bound dad in The Incredibles , to the dinosaurs running wild in Jurassic Park , to Brad Pitt aging backward as Benjamin Button, Ira Flatow and guests look at the evolving technology used to create characters and visual effects on the silver screen.

'Fire tornado' earns TV spot

WINDSOR, Ont. -- His "fire tornado" is one of those "don’t try this at home," Myth Busters-like experiments that earned University of Windsor physics professor Steven Rehse a spot on a TV science show.

It’s like magic

Andrea Jantzi (left) and Lydia Brock watch a dry ice bubble, created by fellow student Sara Currie, form then back away quickly after it pops into the leftover smoke Wednesday during a science children museum at Brenham Christian Academy. The event, put on by the eighth graders, featured messy and not so messy interactive science experiments.

Do Psychedelics Expand the Mind by Reducing Brain Activity?

Do Psychedelics Expand the Mind by Reducing Brain Activity?

In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures

Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, materials science and engineering researchers have discovered a new nanometer-scale atomic structure in solid metallic materials known as metallic glasses.