Videos

For centuries, two fabled Egyptian cities lay hidden in the Nile delta – until underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio found them. A new exhibition explores their treasures.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 18, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

Artist James Gurney explains how he modeled and painted the extinct Volaticotherium featured on Scientific American’s June 2016 cover and inside the magazine. Central to his reconstruction was a model with anatomically accurate muscles built atop fossil bones. 

Scientists have created an interactive brain map showing which areas respond to different words. Nature Video explores how our brains organise the thousands of words in our heads.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 27, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

After a broken neck left him quadraplegic Ian Burkhart was told he would never be able to use his hands. Now he can grasp a bottle and pick up a credit card by using a computer plugged directly into his brain. Special software is able to decode his thoughts and convert them into electrical signals in his hand, bypassing the damaged nerves in his spine. Now Ian has regained an amazing degree of control over his hand, each movement stimulated by his own thoughts.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 13, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

A synchrotron is a high powered x-ray generator, running 24 hours day and night to provide high-frequency light beams for scientific research. In order not to waste any time or money the researchers make full use of every second they are allotted. Nature Video spends a day and a night at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to reveal the science that never sleeps.

This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 29, 2016. It is a Nature Video production. 

In a world filled with complex networks, can mathematical tools bring order and predictability to the chaos? Nature Video finds out.

This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on February 17, 2016. It is a Nature Video production. 

DNA origami—the art of folding DNA—has expanded hugely in the 10 years since its conception. Nature Video finds out how you can fold DNA into robots.

This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 18, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

This bird went extinct before the Homo sapiens ever took a step. In this video, science artist James Gurney shows us his painstaking process to reconstruct an animal unseen by human eyes.

This toy is radioactively cute—and able to explain how a neutral-faced neutron turns into a proton with a positive expression.

If seeing the one you love makes your heart skip a beat, should you see a cardiologist?

The same technological advances that shrank telephones miniaturized heart monitors, with far-reaching implications for heart health.

The universe is a noisy place, but we didn’t always have the right ears to hear the sounds—until now.