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From jellyfish to ants, all life is beautiful in the eyes of Elizabeth Blackburn, co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She talks about her fascination with living things and the discovery of telomerase and telomeres.

Recorded at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and produced with support from Mars, Inc.

A hammock turns out to be the perfect place to contemplate spacetime, especially if you happen to have some coconuts

Researchers were surprised to find that cyclists rode faster while taking on easy mental tasks.

—Karen Hopkin, Eliene Augenbraun

One species of ant turns out to have a lot in common with blue cheese and rotting coconuts.

Photo courtesy: Antweb.org 

Shoe-related dangers lurk underfoot. The rate of high heel–related injuries doubled over a 10-year period, and most of those injuries happened in a place you might not expect.

It might take practice to get to Carnegie Hall but scientists found that it takes a set of dozens of genes in the brain working together to make that practice pay off.

Max Barclay curates insects at London's Museum of Natural History. He discovered the only known beetles collected by the famed 19th century explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, in a dusty old box.

When supermassive black holes run into each other, the fabric of space and time gets a little bit wrinkled.

The universe is a dark, cold place. But it has a strange region that’s even colder than usual.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is host of StarTalk, which is both a top-rated podcast and a television series on National Geographic Channel. Click here for full transcript

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, veteran of two space shuttle missions to Hubble, recalls how he saved the telescope he loves

Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American's Editor in Chief, has a special place in her heart for the Hubble Space Telescope