New research suggests that robotic dogs can give you some of the same benefits you’d get from the real thing.

New research by psychologists suggests we’re born ready to look for snakes. As this ScienCentral News video reports, a series of experiments showed that people, even toddlers, tend to recognize and locate a snake faster than other plants and animals.

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.

Unlocking the gecko’s ability to walk on walls is leading researchers to find a way to replace surgical stitches with sticky tape. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the challenge is to make a surgical tape that works in the wet conditions inside your body.

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.

Is a woman’s choice of valentine really a choice? Researchers studying mice have found that alpha males can trigger growth of new brain cells in females that make them want only alpha males.

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).

As pollsters have so well demonstrated this presidential primary season, reading minds, whether of voters or the person next to you, is close to impossible. However as this ScienCentral News video explains, scientists are actually one step closer to reading our thoughts.