" Cat Feat " -- The Discovery Files
A cat always lands on its feet. At least, that's how the adage goes. Researchers at Georgia Tech hope that in the future, this will be true of robots as well. To understand the way feline or human behavior during falls might be applied to robot landings, the researchers delved into the physics of everything from falling cats to the mid-air orientation of divers and astronauts. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - December 17, 2014 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
"Neuroplasticity and Healing" (BSP 113)
Click to play BSP 113
The Dalai Lama's first visit to Alabama included several large public gatherings but I was invited to attend "Neuroplasticity and Healing," which was the scientific symposium he hosted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The featured neuroscientists were Dr. Edward Taub and Dr. Michael Merzenich. The moderator was Dr. Norman Doidge.The Dalai Lama has a long-standing interest in science and he told the rapt audience that his four areas of interest are cosmology, physics, neurobiology, and psychology.He is very interested in neuroplasticity and his visit to Alabama was actu...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - December 1, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Neuroscience Psychology Philosophy of Mind Reading and the Brain Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Here's How It Works
The video features surgical footage of a BioZorb placement, along with insights and comments on its use by a breast surgeon, a radiation oncologist and a medical physicist.
Author: FocalTherapeutics
Added: 08/14/2014 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - August 14, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month ’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast Extra: Futures
Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Now its sister title Nature Physics has followed suit, publishing a sci-fi story each month. Kerri Smith reads you this month’s tale, The stuff we don’t do, by Marissa Lingen. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 1, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 27 March 2014
This week, how gastric band surgery really works, a dwarf planet in the outer Solar System has a friend, and a physicist suggests a way to make quantum physics less puzzling. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 26, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 27 March 2014
This week, how gastric band surgery really works, a dwarf planet in the outer Solar System has a friend, and a physicist suggests a way to make quantum physics less puzzling. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 26, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 272: Give peas a chance
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV team describes aphid control by using a viral capsid protein to deliver a spider toxin to plants, and a human endogenous retrovirus that enhances expression of a neuronal gene.
Links for this episode
Toxin delivery to plants by viral capsid protein (Nat Biotech)
Pea enation mosaic virus (ViralZone)
Image credit: Aphid membrane feeding chamber (Sci Rep)
Aphid feeding chamber (YouTube)
Parafilm (Wikipedia)
Human endogenous retrovirus enhances neural gene (PNAS)
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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 16, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
