60 Minutes: Health & Science, Vol. 1
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The 60 Minutes team reports on health and science topics including prosthetic arms, the Pentagon's ray gun, the mysterious disappearance of American honeybees, and much more.
| Name | Description | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoLife Saver | Every year, five million children die from starvation. Now there might be a solution: a vitamin-fortified peanut butter paste with the funny name Plumpy'nut. Anderson Cooper reports from Niger, where lives are being saved. | 11:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoWhat's Wrong With the Bees? | American honeybees are disappearing by the millions in a mystery scientists call colony collapse disorder. What's behind it? Could it be pesticides, mites, viruses, malnutrition or a combination of those elements? Steve Kroft reports. | 13:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Pentagon's Ray Gun | The Pentagon has a new gun that doesn't shoot, doesn't kill, and doesn't even look like a gun. It's a ray gun, straight out of Buck Rogers, and Correspondent David Martin experiences this electromagnetic beam first hand. | 12:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoThe Doomsday Vault | Scientists are collecting a billion and a half seeds from all the world's crops to keep them safe deep inside a mountain near the North Pole. Scott Pelley takes a trip to the Arctic to find out why we need a Fort Knox for plant seeds. | 12:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Bypass Effect | Gastric bypass surgery has long been available to help obese people lose weight. Now this surgery seems to have other health benefits, including remission of Type 2 diabetes. Should non-obese patients be able to get this operation? Lesley Stahl reports. | 13:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Collider | It's called the Large Hadron Collider, a massive scientific instrument that took 20 years to create and cost $8 billion. Steve Kroft descends deep underground into the heart of the collider to find out what we might learn when atoms smash into each other. | 12:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe DEKA Arm | Until recently, an amputee missing an arm has had few prosthetic options but a $100 million government project may change all that. Scott Pelley reports on the high-tech prosthetic arm which allows the kind of dexterity not seen with other prosthetics. | 12:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoAmazon Crude | Ecuadorians living along the Amazon river are suing oil giant Chevron, the owner of Texaco, claiming that oil drilling in the Amazon jungle by Texaco polluted their fragile environment. Scott Pelley reports. | 13:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoAmerica's New Air Force | The U.S. military increasingly relies on unmanned, often-armed aircraft to track and destroy the enemy. These aircraft are usually controlled from the safety of bases thousands of miles away from the battlefront. Lara Logan reports. | 13:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoThe Internet Is Infected | The Conficker virus is one of the most dangerous computer threats ever and by some estimates 10 million computers have been hit by this virus alone. The Internet is infected and who are the culprits? How can you stay safe? Lesley Stahl reports. | 12:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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