Latest 60 Minutes: Health & Science videos

  • The DEKA Arm

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

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