The Search for Solutions

An astronomer discusses his method of collecting photographic evidence; a giant hole in Arizona was learned to be the imprint of a meteorite; a re-ena...

An interview with Dr. Geerat Vermeij, a blind University of Maryland malacologist who collects mollusks and examines their shell patterns to determine...

How a television camera was used to investigate life below the South Pole ice shelf; the use of a one-million-volt electron microscope in the study of...

An interview with David Gordon Wilson of M.I.T. who talks of trial and error as a focused learning process; an interview with Paul MacCready, designer...

An interview with a scientist who studies the songs of the humpback whale; an interview with an archaeologist who collected and painstakingly document...

A scientist brings solar energy equipment to address the needs of a small Egyptian village; an ingenious solution to the possible loss of blades durin...

Sculptor Henry Moore discusses the small-scale working models he creates for his massive bronze sculptures; a designer works with an underwater model...

A scientist whose intuitive theory about ancient Native American monuments in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming turned out to be true; a discussion of...

Some predictions of sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe were found to be incredibly accurate; a scientist studies the San Andreas Fault us...