Latest 60 Minutes: Health & Science videos
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The DEKA Arm
September 20, 2009 | 5:00 PM PDT
New technology is making it possible for amputees to pick up small objects they never thought they would master thanks to the biggest innovation in prosthetic arms since WW II. Scott Pelley reports.
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The Age of Megafires
September 6, 2009 | 4:20 PM PDT
Global warming is increasing the intensity and number of forest fires across the American West. Scott Pelley goes to the fire line to report.
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Brain Power
August 9, 2009 | 4:35 PM PDT
People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. Scott Pelley reports.
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Eyewitness, Part 2
July 12, 2009 | 4:52 PM PDT
So how accurate is eyewitness testimony? As Lesley Stahl found out firsthand, memory is malleable and can easily be influenced and corrupted.
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Eyewitness, Part 1
July 12, 2009 | 4:53 PM PDT
Lesley Stahl reports on flaws in eyewitness testimony that are at the heart of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who was falsely accused of rape.
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Mind Reading
June 28, 2009 | 4:50 PM PDT
Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person's mind. Lesley Stahl reports.
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Alice Waters
June 14, 2009 | 2:00 PM PDT
She has preached the virtues of fresh food grown in an environmentally friendly way. A world-class restaurant and eight cookbooks, Alice Waters created the "slow food" approach. Lesley Stahl reports.
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Wine Rx
May 24, 2009 | 2:00 PM PDT
Scientists have found a substance called resveratrol in red wine that slows down the aging process in mice. Will it someday lengthen the lives of humans, too? Morley Safer reports.
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Amazon Crude
May 4, 2009 | 4:09 AM PDT
Ecuadorians are suing oil giant Chevron, the owner of Texaco, because they say oil drilling in the Amazon jungle by Texaco polluted their fragile environment. Scott Pelley reports.
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The Stubbornest Man On Earth
April 19, 2009 | 4:00 PM PDT
The scientific establishment calls it junk science, but Michael McKubre says it's the future.
