Environmental Research Advocates (ERAscience.org), Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and CNSI (California Nano Systems Institute), launched a revolutionary inner-city teaching program to support science education for underserved children. Perimeter...
Remember your mom telling you to make sure you chewed your food throughly? It's seems that mother did know best since it turns out that chewing can do much more then power your metabolism. Drs Aidin Delnavaz and Jeremie Voix, mechanical engineers at the Ecole de...
What does the accompanying image bring to mind? Layers of carved chocolate? How about a block of clay waiting to become a piece of art? Bet you didn't guess it's the future of 24 hour winter warmth thanks to the guys at MIT and a new exciting little molecule...
Stamping your feet when there's no Wi-Fi access around? Professor Harald Hass wants to show you the light and free you from that Wi-Fi hunt with Li-Fi!LiFi is the use of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit information at very high...
First up on the podcast, freelance science and environmental journalist Quentin Septer joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a controversial uranium mine getting fast-tracked in South Dakota. Septer chatted with locals, scientists, and regulators to learn more about the geology of the region and the promise of cleanup after the miners go home. Next […]
The final of a three-part limited Science Podcast series that looks at the history of normal human subjects in research In episode two, we heard what happened to the normals program after church volunteers came to the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center—and were surprisingly happy despite going through sometimes-painful procedures. In the decades to […]
First up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to those temperatures has usually required dilution fridges using the extremely rare and increasingly expensive isotope helium-3. Freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss up-and-coming technologies that can drive down temperatures […]
A growing body of research is pointing to the critical, but unappreciated, role that older animals play in ensuring the survival of wildlife populations. Conservationists say the new findings should lead to policies that protect these elders and the essential knowledge they impart.Read more on E360 →