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Camp Sundown: Camp for kids allergic to sunlight [The Big Idea]
At 10:30 p.m., kids at most summer camps are winding down for the night. But at a camp in Craryville, New York, the fun is just beginning.
The future of recording your dreams | The Big Idea
We all do it. Every night, whether we're aware of it or not, we dream. What does it mean? And what happens to our brains when we're in a dream state?
Wearable device IDs faces, reads text for the blind
A wearable device helps people with vision loss know what is around them, including people's faces, denominations of money, and various objects.
Ready Surgeon One: Can Virtual Reality Save Lives?
Ready Surgeon One: Can Virtual Reality Save Lives? Osso VR CEO, Justin Barad believes it can, so he created a virtual reality environment which trains surgeons so they don't have to "practice" on you.
Is the world seen in 'Ready Player One' closer than we think?
Accessible to anyone with a console and immersion rig at no cost, the limitless virtual universe known as "The Oasis" exists in the bestselling novel and now Steven Spielberg film "Ready Player One."
EKG on your wrist: Will wearable devices change healthcare?
First came fitness wearables. You track how many steps you take, how many calories you burn. But now medical technology companies are getting into the mix with health wearables that are innovating the health sector.
Creating DNA from scratch in a lab
Imagine wheat resistant to climate change or trees that purify water supplies. That is not too far-fetched. It took 10 years, but Dr. Jef Boeke and scientists in 11 other labs on four continents finally figured out a way to create DNA from scratch. And it starts with yeast.
The Big Idea: How a liquid biopsy changes cancer treatment
Alex Sarmiento, 77, has good reason to feel optimistic about his future. Three years ago, Alex was diagnosed with prostate cancer and the disease had spread to other parts of his body.
Are we 'immigrants' in our own galaxy? Understanding intergalactic transfer
Where do we come from? It is the age-old question. How exactly was our planet formed? Now thanks to a groundbreaking study we have a better idea.
The Big Idea: Enhancing your workouts with technology and data
The ever-evolving world of technology can help us improve our fitness more than ever before.
Prayer triggers brain rewards
A spiritual feeling of being relaxed, centered, reassured, and grounded that many people of faith describe may now be supported by science.
Can big data analysis swing a political election? | What Is IT? The Big Idea Edition
As nearly everything in our lives transitions from the real to the digital world, the more those things can -- and are -- being tracked. Every like, tweet, search and swipe ours is a piece of that digital data mosaic that makes up our online life. But with that massive amount of information, companies, advertisers and now political campaigns are gaining a big advantage.
The Big Idea: Architect with ALS designs residence for patients
At first look there is nothing remarkable about a bedroom Fox 5 visited with its family photos, collection of DVDs, and sports mementos. It is who lives here that makes it so extraordinary. Steve Sailing, 48, has been living with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), for 10 years. The disease cripples the body but not the mind.
The Big Idea: Is life a simulation?
What if the life we know is actually an illusion and we are living in a simulation?
The Big Idea: Reading revolution through song
It looks and sounds like any normal kindergarten classroom. But Jacqueline Abinikad's students at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, New York, are learning to read a different way. They're using a program called Wordstart.
The Big Idea: Parallel universes and other dimensions
Every day some seven billion people roam planet Earth. People moving through time. Through space. But what if there was more than meets the eye: additional dimensions or perhaps another universe, entirely.
The Big Idea: Fighting food allergies
From the outside it is unnoticeable but for those who suffer day in and day out from food allergies it can be debilitating.
Futuristic crime scene technology is here now
When a homemade pressure-cooker bomb exploded in a dumpster in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in mid-September, police officers, FBI agents, and bomb techs isolated the crime scene, interviewed witnesses, and collected and cataloged evidence to send to labs for analysis in hopes all that might lead them to the person who constructed and planted the device.
The Big Idea: Fighting superbugs
Antibiotics -- one of the most profound medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century -- don't work as well as they once did.
The Big Idea: Treating cancer with immunotherapy
Cancer specialists have discovered a new way to activate the body's immune system. Immunotherapy may finally be the weapon needed to conquer one of medicines' fiercest foes.