A woman in Sweden has achieved a medical first after giving birth to a health baby boy following a womb transplant. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely by cesarean section but is healthy and mother and child are now at hom...

InSitu Foundation is a 501(c)3 dedicated to training dogs to detect cancer in humans.InSitu Foundation has participated in 2 federally funded studies, where we looked at the diagnostic accuracy of canine scent detection in early and late stage lung, breast, and ovarian cancer. Insitu Foundation's m...

The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting

Trees curb climate change directly by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Through the process of photosynthesis, forests offset 10 to 20 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions each year. Additionally, trees help protect against climate impacts such as flooding, which is getting w

Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The S

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, directing with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, interrogates this question and its devastating implications in Totally Under Control. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-w

The major goal at the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center is to understand how cells build and regenerate tissue. Scientists work in close collaboration with physicians to combine the power of genetics in model organisms such as the mouse and zebrafish with cutting edge imag...

This intense social drama from writer-director Thom Fitzgerald chronicles the spread of AIDS on three continents — Asia, Africa and North America — and the wrenching, controversial choices that three sets of people make to cope with the disease. An all-star cast including Stockard Channing, Lucy Liu

Passing Through by Kristian Ulrich Larsen. The text used for the narration of “Passing Through” is part of a speech Serbia scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known than figures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more o

The Creators Project travels to Kabul to meet young feminist graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani, whose work challenges preconceptions about the role of women in Afghan society, and expresses a unique perspective on life in a country recovering from decades of war. We chat with her about identifying a...