All Videos — May 4, 2011

Harnessing the Body to Combat Diseases

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Regenerative medicine captures the body’s ability to heal itself and accelerates that to a clinically relevant time scale.

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A composite image showing a galaxy with red circles marking stars on the left and multicolored expanding rings with Earth on the right, all set against a grid background, illustrating concepts like Hubble tension studied by Wendy Freedman.

Starts With A Bang

Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman

Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?

A person is being recorded on video by a camera mounted on a tripod, with the display highlighting visual literacy as the subject appears in focus and the background is artfully blurred.

Business

6 ways for leaders to hone their “visual literacy”

Leaders may not realize it — they’re not just being watched, they’re being interpreted, filtered, and judged, frame by frame.

A blue planet with visible rings and several small, bright Uranus moons is set against a darkened black background.

Starts With A Bang

Hubble reveals a dark side to Uranus’s moons

Viewing Uranus’s largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite instead.

An illustration shows a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a cascade of secondary particles—some of the highest energy particles astronomers study—detected by an array of sensors on the ground.

Starts With A Bang

Astronomers close in on the source of the highest energy particles

On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.

Interior view of a large observatory telescope in operation at night, with orange light trails and a starry sky visible through the open roof.

Hard Science

The hunt for alien technosignatures is getting a high-tech upgrade

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will image the southern sky using the largest digital camera ever built.

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