Scientists ’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books
First this week, Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with author Patrick Radden Keefe about his book Empire of Pain and the role scientists, regulators, and physicians played in the rollout of Oxycontin and the opioid crisis in the United States.
Next, Katelyn Baumer, a Ph.D. student in the chemistry and biochemistry department at Baylor University, talks with host Sarah Crespi about her Science Advances paper on 3D printing proteins using candy.Â
Finally, book review editor Valerie Thompson takes us on a journey through some science-y summer reads—from the future of foods to a biography of the color blue.
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 8, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements from research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations—instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements from research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations —instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans. Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements fr om research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning. In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
News Staff Writer Erik Stokstad joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss possible harms from how the shipping industry is responding to air pollution regulations —instead of pumping health-harming chemicals into the air, they are now being dumped into oceans.
Also this week, William Brune, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, talks about flying a plane into thunderstorms and how measurements f rom research flights revealed the surprising amount of air-cleaning oxidants created by lightning.
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Se...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 7, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Rebuilding Louisiana ’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions.
Also on this week’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plastic to fuels, like gasoline and jet fuel. Â
This week’s episode was produced with he...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Rebuilding Louisiana ’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions.
Also on this week’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plastic to fuels, like gasoline and jet fuel.
This week’s episode was ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Rebuilding Louisiana ’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions. Also on this week ’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plastic to fuels, like g asoline and jet fuel. This week’s episode was produced with help f...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 22, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Rebuilding Louisiana ’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about a restoration project to add 54 square kilometers back to the coast of Louisiana by allowing the Mississippi River to resume delivering sediment to sinking regions.
Also on this week’s show, Dion Vlachos, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, joins Sarah to talk about his Science Advances paper on a low-temperature process to convert different kinds of plast ic to fuels, like gasoline and jet fuel.
This week’s episode was produced with help...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets
Exploring the properties of a vanishingly-rare man-made element, and the AI that generates new mathematical conjectures.In this episode:01:04 Einsteinium's secretsEinsteinium is an incredibly scarce, man-made element that decays so quickly that researchers don’t know much about it. Now, using state-of-the-art technology, a team has examined how it interacts with other atoms, which they hope will shed new light on einsteinium and its neighbours on the periodic table.Research Article: Carter et al.06:28 Research HighlightsThe mysterious appearance of three ozone-depleting chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere, and how ride-sha...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Mysterious einsteinium spills its secrets
Exploring the properties of a vanishingly-rare artificial element, and the AI that generates new mathematical conjectures.In this episode:01:04 Einsteinium's secretsEinsteinium is an incredibly scarce, artificial element that decays so quickly that researchers don’t know much about it. Now, using state-of-the-art technology, a team has examined how it interacts with other atoms, which they hope will shed new light on einsteinium and its neighbours on the periodic table.Research Article: Carter et al.06:28 Research HighlightsThe mysterious appearance of three ozone-depleting chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere, and how ride...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Don ’t think too deeply about the origin of life – it may have started in puddles
How water chemistry is shifting researchers' thoughts on where life might have arisen, and a new model to tackle climate change equitably and economically.In this episode:00:46 A shallow start to life on Earth?It’s long been thought that life on Earth first appeared in the oceans. However, the chemical complexities involved in creating biopolymers in water has led some scientists to speculate that shallow pools on land were actually the most likely location for early life.News Feature: How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water07:44 CoronapodThe COVID-19 pandemic has massively shifted the scientifi...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Don ’t think too deeply about the origin of life – it may have started in puddles
How water chemistry is shifting researchers' thoughts on where life might have arisen, and a new model to tackle climate change equitably and economically.In this episode:00:46 A shallow start to life on Earth?It’s long been thought that life on Earth first appeared in the oceans. However, the chemical complexities involved in creating biopolymers in water has led some scientists to speculate that shallow pools on land were actually the most likely location for early life.News Feature: How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water07:44 CoronapodThe COVID-19 pandemic has massively shifted the scientifi...
Source: Nature Podcast - December 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
"What is Health?" with Peter Sterling (BS 178)
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This month's episode of Brain Science features neuroscientist Peter Sterling sharing the key ideas for his new book What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. In recent years neuroscientists have developed a growing appreciation of the predictive functions of the brain. Sterling takes this principle to the next level by asking what this means for human health. He argues that medicine's traditional focus on homeostasis ignores the much larger role of what he calls allostasis, whi...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - November 27, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Addiction Books Brain Chemistry Brain Evolution dopamine Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
