Videos

The world’s most photographed ewe was born in Scotland on July 5, 1996. Nature Video talks to two of the researchers who created her.

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

Slime molds have no brains, yet they make complex decisions. In this film scientists use time-lapse video to figure out how slime molds make those decisions.

"Lens of Time: Slime Lapse" was first published on bioGraphic and reproduced with permission. © 2016 California Academy of Sciences

A new type of laminated wood is as strong and fire-resistant as steel and concrete. And whereas concrete adds CO2 to the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming, growing trees pull carbon out of the air.

Video courtesy of Nexus Media

New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as ‘the hobbit’.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on June 8, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 31, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

Nature asked 1,576 scientists for their thoughts on reproducibility. Most agree that there's a 'crisis' and over 70% said they'd tried and failed to reproduce another group's experiments.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 25, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

In a cave in France archaeologists have found some of the oldest human constructions ever discovered —but no one knows what they are. Nature Video takes a look.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 25, 2016. It is a Nature Video production.

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.