Laura Nix, film director, talks to Heather Goldstone on Living Lab about her new movie Inventing Tomorrow . It’s about teenage science innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats. The film follows four of these inspiring teens as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) . The filmmaker says she was drawn to the

Great white sharks have started filtering back into Massachusetts waters. Researchers are pretty sure food is what brings them here, but it’s hard to know for sure what sharks are thinking.

We all know we feel better when we’re well-rested, but why do we sleep? And how much is enough?

In the past two months, more than 2,300 immigrant children have been separated from their parents after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. President Trump has issued an executive order ending the practice, but it’s not clear when or how the previously separated families will be reunited.

It’s official – the net neutrality rules put into place by the FCC in 2015 went away on April 23 after being repealed by the Trump Administration in December.

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to be happy – websites, videos, newsletters – and many pedal a recipe for happiness backed by science. But neuroscientist Dean Burnett started to notice that a lot of it wasn’t very scientific at all. It bugged him so much that he decided to write a book about it, Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From and Why.

It was on again, off again but President Trump did meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, and they did agree to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. What that means is still unclear, but a new study has some advice for all nuclear nations: Limit your arsenal to one-hundred weapons.

It’s hard to believe, but we actually had a vaccine for Lyme disease in the 1990’s. It was pulled from the market in 2002 after a class action lawsuit alleged that it infected people with Lyme rather than protecting them from it. The government didn't find any evidence of that, but it’s taken 15 years for a drug developer to get close to getting a new one to market. Now, a French company called Valneva has taken its vaccine through Phase 1 of a three-phase testing regime.

If you go outside after dusk this time of year, in a place where there is a bit of vegetation, even better somewhere undeveloped and dark, you may get to see the greenish yellow flashes of the firefly. How can an insect make light? Why do they, and what do the flashes mean? Living Lab host Heather Goldstone gets the answers i n this interview with Sara Lewis, Professor of Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology at Tufts University , who's written a new book entitled Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World

Summer may not officially be here yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start reading for fun. Jenny Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London , founder of the science advocacy group Science is Vital , editor of LabLit.com , and a novelist in her own right. She spoke with Heather about her top picks for science summer reading. But this isn’t non-fiction science reading, it’s a summer reading list where scientists are the main characters. First we start with Jenny's new book that’s