BREAKTHROUGH

What have been humanity's last scientific advances? From baby steps to magnificent strides—witness it all on Breakthrough.

Maria Konovalenko discusses the ways that science has already discovered how to reduce the impact of aging.

Jason Silva believes that tweaking the process of cell turnover could add decades to our lives.

Andrew Mcafee believes that the smart phone will have a huge impact on our world as more and more people begin to own it.

Christine Peterson believes that in the future we will be able to make quality repairs to our DNA as well as incorporate...

Jason Silva believes that technology will become increasingly smaller and more intelligent in the future.

Eric Kandel thinks that we must have objective, independent measures to diagnose psychiatric illnesses in order to treat them...

Michael Shermer believes we should focus on explaining simple things in the brain before attempting to explain everything.

Christof Koch thinks we need breakthroughs in both instrumentation and conceptualization in order to begin to explain things...