Weather researchers have found evidence that rain storms tend to take it easy on the weekend. The extra weekday rain might be caused by the pollution we generate by commuting to work.

Live, 3D holographic movies are now a big step closer. As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers are developing them using a new material that makes holograms rewritable.

Researchers have found a new way to identify loose cancer cells in patients’ blood. As this ScienCentral News video explains, use of a high tech chip could give doctors a quicker and less invasive way to tell if treatments are working.

Attention commuters! Researchers have found that when you talk on your cell phone, even when you’re using a hands free device, you’re slowing down traffic. Scientists figured this out using traffic simulators.

Research on brain scans reveals that women with anorexia may experience taste differently than others. This is one of two stories we have on anorexia and the brain, during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

New research suggests that the brains of former anorexics have a hard time telling the difference between winning and losing. This is one of two stories we have on anorexia and the brain, during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Is bionic vision in your future? It might be if engineers can perfect a contact lens filed with electronics. As this ScienCentral News report explains, engineers have demonstrated how to put electronics inside a contact lens.

In the movie “Be Kind, Rewind,” Jack Black plays a man who is magnetized and erases an entire store-full of video tapes. But can people really be “magnetic?” In this ScienCentral News video, meet a boy who calls himself “Magneto Man,” and has a reputation for making computers go wild.

From “Star Trek” to the new sci-fi film “Jumper,” we’re all familiar with the idea of teleportation. But as this ScienCentral News video explains, scientists are actually doing real teleportation experiments in the lab.

Actor Hayden Christensen and director Doug Liman were kind enough, and brave
enough, to talk to us about their understanding of teleportation in the real
world (as opposed to in their new movie, Jumper).