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Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, & urban air “re-leaf”
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 33 Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, and urban air “re-leaf.” It’s four awesome discoveries you probably didn’t hear about. Guitar...
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Solving Crimes with DNA - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)
DNA Scientist and Mentor Bruce Jackson, PhD, traces ancestry and solves crimes with the powerful tool of DNA on this edition of "Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)"!
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Muon g-2 - Moving the worl'd largest electromagnetic ring
Muon g-2, the world's largest electromagnetic ring, is travelling in one piece from Brookhaven National Laboratory on New York's Long Island to Fermilab outside Chicago. Its arrival may lead scientists to the next big discoveries in...
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Warming and Carbon Dioxide - How Do We Know?
A giant video screen that takes up an entire wall, floor to ceiling, is allowing scientists to see details they've never seen before. Developed at Tufts University with help from the National Science Foundation, the Visualization Wall...
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NSF - Everywhere in Your World
How has scientific research changed your world? Answer: In more ways than you probably think. Here's a quick look at the impact of National Science Foundation-funded research in your daily life.
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How to make your holidays greener?
Wondering how to be "green" and leave behind the smallest environmental footprint during the holidays? Listen to some tips from from the environmental packaging company Ecovative Design on how you can make your home more sustainable...
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Understanding the Brain with John Wingfield
During the week of May 6th, 2013, scientists from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and DARPA, met for the first meeting on the BRAIN Initiative. Dr. John Wingfield, Assistant Director of Biology at the...
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Time out of mind - Finding Your Science
Physics Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony Leggett talks about the paradox of time's forward motion. Finding Your Science engages the greatest minds in science to share with you their passion, perspective and inspiration for making breakthrough...
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The Physics of Popping Water Balloons
Take a slow motion look at what actually happens when a water balloon bursts.
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Explained: First ever observed black hole
If you could fly next to the supermassive black hole M87*, this is what you would see. Full Text: 55-million light years from Earth, at the heart of galaxy Messier 87 lies a monster black hole. Weighing in at 6.5 billion times the mass...
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Bonanza of birdsongs digitized for science
The world's largest scientific archive of animal signal recordings, the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, is partnering with other institutions to co-curate and digitize an enormous archive of animal audio and video recordings from the...
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Black Hole Researchers Katie Bouman and Colin Lonsdale Answer Your Questions
On April 10, a team of international scientists from Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first ever image of a black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy. We invited computer scientist Dr. Katie Bouman and astronomer Dr. Colin...
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Batty for Bats - Innovation Nation
Bat wings have unique aerodynamic qualities, and studying their structure and function influences the design of new, more advanced airplane wings. Sharon Swartz and Kenny Breuer from Brown University talk about their research on how bats...
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A new robotic exoskeleton in town
In Episode 11, Charlie and Jordan talk about a new robotic exoskeleton, one of the world’s best suction cups and 1,4-dioxane contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin.
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Autonomous robot does laundry
People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Technologies Research Center, Berkeley. To...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 24
Stretching the strength, snake buckling behavior, table for crime scenes, and rewriting the history of oxygen. Super stretchy mighty metal fiber https://news.ncsu.edu/2019/02/researchers-engineer-a-tougher-fiber/ North Carolina State...
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Fishy business
In episode 47, Jordan and Charlie explore how scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have solved the longstanding mystery about how some fish “disappear” from their predators. A fish’s ability to go invisible in polarized light...
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Research immerses HBCU undergrads in biomedical engineering - Science Nation
Center for Biomechanical & Rehabilitation Engineering lab inspires STEM careers by focusing students on helping the elderly For Americans over 65, falls are the leading cause of injury-related death. With increases in average life...
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Ultimate sacrifice - Spider's post-sex cannibalism aids offspring
In this spooktacular episode, Jordan and Charlie explore the male dark fishing spider’s ultimate sacrifice. This death wish probably evolved to benefit his offspring, which grow nearly 20 percent larger, and survive about 50 percent...
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Dr. France A. Córdova assumes leadership of NSF
Dr. France A. Córdova begins her tenure as the National Science Foundation's 14th director with remarks to the NSF workforce.
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Chemistry professor Mircea Dincă discusses Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation selects MIT chemistry professor Mircea Dincă as the 2016 winner of the 40th anniversary Alan T. Waterman Award. Dincă discusses the award and metal organic frameworks.
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Ask a Scientist – Superhero Edition 2
We polled top nano experts for their nanotechnology enabled superpower of choice! In this edition, we hear from Saniya LeBlanc, from George Washington University; Quinn Spadola with the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office; and...
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Will an asteroid impact wipe us out?
Have you ever wondered if an asteroid impact wipe us out? Dr. Philip Plait answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
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What does a Scientist look like?
We asked Fen Zhao, an NSF Program Coordinator in the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program, what does a scientist look like?