Being a neuroscientist means I have a lot of awkward conversations in Home Depot. “What do you need it for?” the sales guy inquires after I ask where I might find Kapton tape, a special polyimide tape ...

My homelab is a toy. And I don't mean that in a bad way. It's a hobby, and the lab is a playground for me to check out cool ...

In the spring of 2010, on an episode of the radio show “The Story,” I heard the tale of a British couple who lived trash-free. I walked home from my laboratory at the University of Michigan and told ...

As a graduate student who was on the verge of performing the last experiment for a paper, I lament the timing of COVID-19 – it could not have been more inconvenient. My lab’s research at the ...

Call it "Mad Science", or just a "Quest for Discovery". These are some of my experiments, and "Random Weekend Projects"Subscribe for new videos posted Randomly! <a ...

A year and a half ago, as I was preparing to launch my own laboratory studying cognition at Columbia University in New York City, I kept returning to a particular concern: I would soon be responsible ...

From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship. She asked a lot of questions, loved looking at the stars and was set on ...

While movies often show AI agents as sentient super computers that can perform various tasks, real-world AI agents differ greatly from this portrayal. “What we mean when we say AI is that we come up ...