Science and Creativity from Studio 360

The man nicknamed “the father of creativity” was psychologist E. Paul Torrance. In the 1940s he began researching creati... Read more

What makes us have especially productive sessions — those minutes or hours when you’re so immersed in what you’re doing ... Read more

We all know the Thomas Edison line: genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. But there are those who don't seem to pe... Read more

For over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers... Read more

AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incred... Read more

Dr. Eric Kandel is a neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute who won the Nobel Pri... Read more

When Tom Fontana was a producer on the show “St. Elsewhere” in the 1980s, he loved to push the boundaries of weirdness t... Read more

Everywhere we go, we leave a trail of personal information — in the stray hairs that land on park benches, or saliva on ... Read more

Bringing extinct animals back has usually been left to the world of science fiction. But a group of biologists is attemp... Read more

Frances Arnold is a biochemical engineer at Cal Tech working on one part of the energy crisis. In a process called “dire... Read more

Lots of kids have imaginary friends. (A young Kurt Andersen had a gaggle including Robbie Dobbie, Crackerpin, Jimmy the ... Read more

"Dark matter" has been in the news again lately as scientists in Switzerland have begun mapping what they believe is its... Read more

Neuroscience is a vast field. Here’s how Greg Dunn describes it: “It’s as if in New York, there’s like a little neighbor... Read more

A Louisiana physician (and amateur filmmaker) teamed up with a cinematographer to invent a system that they say improves... Read more

Few readers of science fiction can name any African-American writers in the genre apart from Samuel Delaney and Octavia ... Read more

EEG — electroencephalography — is almost a century old, and it’s creeping out of the research lab and the neurologist’s ... Read more

More than 25 years ago, the largest audience ever for a TV movie tuned to ABC to watch a simulated nuclear holocaust. “T... Read more

When you hear a singer like the late Whitney Houston belt out a song like“I Will Always Love You,” you’re listening to a... Read more

Talking about building an interstellar space ship makes you sound like a sci-fi fan who’s lost touch with the real world... Read more

Nearly a decade after the human genome was decoded, scientists are only now beginning to understand its implications. On... Read more