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The YouTube SpaceLab Competition If you're 14 to 18 years old, you still have until December 14th to prepare a two-minute video of a suggestion for an experiment to be performed at the International Space Station and upload it to youtube.com/spacelab. Winners will see their experiment performed in space.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Large Hadron Collider BackgrounderThomas LeCompte of Argonne National Lab was the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He talks about the instrument and its future, as we await the December 13th announcement as to whether the LHc has found the Higgs particle.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the RiseOcean and climate scientist Eelco Rohling talks with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about updated calculations of sea-level rise as a function of climate changeListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light NeutrinosPhysicist Brian Greene, host of the NOVA series "The Fabric of the Cosmos," addresses the question of faster-than-light neutrinos at a Q&A session after the debut of the PBS seriesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Mind's Hidden SwitchesEric Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine, on epigenetics and human behavior, called Hidden Switches In The Mind.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in ChemistryListen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Then hear comments from the president of the American Chemical Society, Nancy Jackson, of Sandia National LaboratoriesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in PhysicsListen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Following the formal announcement comes an explanation of the research, which tracked type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. And a phone conversation with new Nobel laureate Brian SchmidtListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cancer VaccinesEric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer," about cancer vaccinesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Legend Christian de DuveChristian de Duve, 1974 Nobel Laureate for physiology or medicine, talks about going from a cell biologist to a theorist on evolution and the origin of life.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carl Zimmer On Rats, Cats, Viruses and TattoosIn part 2 of our interview, award-winning author Carl Zimmer talks about his latest books, and a new study that shows how Toxoplasma influences the behavior of rats--and maybe of us.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carl Zimmer On Evolution in the Big CityThe annual Scientific American September single topic issue is all about cities. And award-winning author Carl Zimmer recently penned a piece on evolution research in the urban environment for the New York Times. In part one of this interview, he talks about urban evolution.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches About Urban Crime And Its ControlUC Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring talks about his article How New York Beat Crime in the August issue of Scientific AmericanListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra In The CellNobel Laureate Avram Hershko, who determined cellular mechanisms for breaking down proteins, talks about his research in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. And Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the recent inaugural Google Science Fair.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to LutefiskPeter Agre, 2003 Chemistry Nobel laureate for his work on aquaporins, the proteins that allow water into and out of cells, talks about his research, his upbringing and why he almost ran for the Senate, in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, GermanyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Let's Make A Probabilistic Deal: A Fresh Look At The Monty Hall ProblemScientific American math and physics editor Davide Castelvecchi revisits the Monty Hall problem so you can know whether you're better off holding on to your original pick or switching when new information presents itself.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
How Physics Limits IntelligenceAward-winning author Douglas Fox talks about his cover story in the July issue of Scientific American about The Limits Of Intelligence, placed there by the laws of physics.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dying For Science: The Hundredth Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic ExpeditionPulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson talks about his article Greater Glory in the June issue of Scientific American, on the forgotten science of the doomed Scott expedition a hundred years ago.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Skirting Steak: The Case For Artificial MeatJournalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab, and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May issue on radical energy solutions.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Astronaut Love: An Interview with Spacewalker Stanley LoveOn the eve of the launch of the penultimate space shuttle mission, STS-134, Scientific American astronomy editor George Musser talks to veteran astronaut Stanley Love about being in space and the future of spaceflightListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference ReportsScientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an MIT 150th anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically EverythingListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Can It Be Bad To Be Too Clean?: The Hygiene HypothesisJohns Hopkins School of Medicine researcher Kathleen Barnes talks about the Hygiene Hypothesis, which raises the possibility that our modern sterile environment may contribute to conditions such as asthma and eczema.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Self-Aware Robots?Journalist Charles Choi talks about work being down to make robots self-aware. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=automaton-robots-become-self-aware and http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=evolution-educationListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable On The AAAS MeetingPodcast host Steve Mirsky talks with Scientific American magazine editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina, news editor Anna Kuchment, feature editor Mark Fischetti and online news editor Robin Lloyd about various sessions at the recently completed annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. Websites related to this episode and the conference include
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The Spirit of Innovation: From High School To The MoonNancy Conrad, chair of the Conrad Foundation, talks about the Spirit of Innovation competition for high school students, and about her late husband, Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon. Websites related to this episode include http://conradawards.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What's New With Science NewsFormer Scientific American editor-in-chief and current Gleaming Retort blogger John Rennie, blogger and Scientific American blogs network director Bora Zivkovic and Scientific American online news editor Robin Lloyd talk about the future of science news. Websites related to this episode include blogs.plos.org/retort and www.scientificamerican.com/blogListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight against European NaturalistsBiologist and author Lee Dugatkin talks about his article "Jefferson's Moose" in the February issue of Scientific American, the story of Jefferson's battle against the European theory of American biological degeneracy. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=jeffersons-mooseListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
What Is The Watson Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer, Alex?Scientific American editor Michael Moyer talks about the sneak preview he caught of of IBM's Watson Jeopardy-playing computer. And scientificamerican.com's Larry Greenemeier spoke with Ford's Brad Probert about the new all-electric Focus at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Vinod Khosla: Searching For The Radical SolutionClean technology investor Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, talks with Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti about the energy payoffs to be had by reinventing mainstream technologies. Websites related to this episode include www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-search-of-the-radical-solutionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
How You Gonna Keep Flu Down On The Farm?: Pig Farms and Public HealthJournalist Helen Branswell discusses her January Scientific American article, "Flu Factories", about the attempts to monitor new strains of flu that can originate on pig farms and the difficulties of balancing economic and public health constituencies. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/dFAQX4Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down EasyActor, playwright and journalist Anna Deavere Smith talks about the health care crisis and her play about people dealing with illness, health and the health care system, Let Me Down Easy. Websites related to this episode include www.arenastage.org; www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11132009/profile.htmlListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Spewings of Titan (And More From the AGU Meeting)Scientific American editor Davide Castelvecchi joins us from San Francisco to talk about some of the highlights of the meeting of the American Geophysical Union, including volcanoes on Titan, x rays from lightning, the biota of the Sulawesi Sea and the connection between light pollution and air pollution. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include sciencewriter.org; snipurl.com/planethunters; snipurl.com/titanspew; snipurl.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Let's Talk Stuffing--Your FaceCornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect. Websites related to this episode include www.mindlesseating.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Let's Talk Turkey!Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina and podcast host Steve Mirsky talk about longevity differences in the sexes, the importance of music education, the pros and cons of the Kindle, and other content from the November issue. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://snipurl.com/larrydreamsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven WeinbergNobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/9wr82b and http://bit.ly/92ANcaListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 1 of 2)Photograph 51 is a new play about Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick, and the race to determine the structure of DNA, at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York City, running through November 21st. This November 2nd panel discussion about the play and the issues it raises featured crystallography expert Helen Berman, biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin, science journalist Nicholas Wade, playwright Anna Ziegler and moderator Stuart Firestein. Websites related to this episode in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Quest For The Giant PumpkinSusan Warren, author of the book Backyard Giants, talks about "the passionate, heartbreaking and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever." Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.bigpumpkins.com, www.backyardgiants.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Not Your Grandfather's Scientific AmericanScientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the new look and new outlook of Scientific American magazine and of www.scientificamerican.com. Plus we discuss the results of a poll of the readers of Scientific American and Nature.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Harlem Science RenaissanceMolecular geneticist Sat Bhattacharya talks about his creation, the Harlem Children Society, which gets underprivileged kids involved in scientific research. And 13-year-olds Mitchell Haverty and Angus Fung talk about their research on algae as alternative fuel. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.harlemchildrensociety.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Totally Bogus: The Science Talk QuizIn this special stand-alone edition, see if you know which of four science news stories is Totally Bogus.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Exactly When Is A Person Dead?Award-winning science journalist Robin Marantz Henig and podcast host Steve Mirsky discuss Robin's article in the September issue about organ donation and definitions of death. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/ctIDsx; http://bit.ly/9Us1lEListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Could Time End?Scientific American staff editor George Musser joins podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) to discuss his article in the September issue about the possibility of time itself coming to an end.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The End: Death, Endings and Things That Should EndEditor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and issue editor Michael Moyer talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about the September single-topic issue of Scientific American--endings in science. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the newsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cooking For Geeks: Jeff Potter on Experimenting in the KitchenJeff Potter, author of Cooking For Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks and Good Food, talks with daily podcast correspondent Cynthia Graber, and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) tests your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.cookingforgeeks.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mary Roach Is Packing For Mars (Part 2)Podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) talks with author Mary Roach about her new book Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Part 2 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.netListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mary Roach Is Packing For Mars (Part 1)Podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) recently attended a talk by author Mary Roach about her new book Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. In part 1 of this 2-part episode, we'll hear that talk. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.netListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
When Humans Almost Died Out; Earthy Exoplanets; And Scientific American's 165th BirthdayPodcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition. And editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the rest of the contents of the issue, including our coverage of the search for rocky exoplanets. Plus we test your knowledge about s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arguing With Non-Skeptics (Part 2 of 2)A panel discussion on arguing with non-skeptics at the recent Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in New York City featured James Randi, George Hrab, DJ Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left). Julia Galef moderated. Part 2 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.necsscon.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Arguing With Non-Skeptics (Part 1 of 2)A panel discussion on arguing with non-skeptics at the recent Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in New York City featured James Randi, George Hrab, DJ Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left). Julia Galef moderated. Part 1 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.nature.com/nature/podcast and www.necsscon.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | |