Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM
Today, most newborns get some biochemical screens of their blood, but whole-genome sequencing is a much more comprehensive look at an infant—maybe too comprehensive? Staff Writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the ethical ins and outs of whole-genome screening for newborns, and the kinds of infrastructure needed to use these screens more widely.
Sarah also talks with three contributors to a series of vignettes on the importance of active learning for students in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Yuko Munakata, professor in the department of psychology and Center for Mind and Brain at th...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 30, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum —possibly the earliest evidence for humans on the continent. Read the research. Next, Paolo Cherubini, a senior scientist in the dendrosciences research group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, discusses using tree rings to date and authenticate 17th and 18th c entury violins worth millions of dollars. Finally, in this month’s installment of the series of book interviews on race and science, guest host A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 29, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum—possibly the earliest evidence for humans on the continent. Read the research.
Next, Paolo Cherubini, a senior scientist in the dendrosciences research group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, discusses using tree rings to date and authenticate 17th and 18th century violins worth millions of dollars.
Finally, in this month’s installment of the series of book interviews on race and science, guest host A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum—possibly the earliest evidence for humans on the continent. Read the research.
Next, Paolo Cherubini, a senior scientist in the dendrosciences research group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, discusses using tree rings to date and authenticate 17th and 18th century violins worth millions of dollars.
Finally, in this month’s installment of the series of book interviews on race and science, gues...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows. Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of Johannesburg, joins us to talk about his Science Advances paper on origins of the sardine run —a massive annual fish migration off the coast of South Africa. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 16, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows.
Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of Johannesburg, joins us to talk about his Science Advances paper on origins of the sardine run—a massive annual fish migration off the coast of South Africa.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Steven Benjamin; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[Alt text: sardines in a swirling bait ball]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; David GrimmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 16, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows.
Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of Johannesburg, joins us to talk about his Science Advances paper on origins of the sardine run—a massive annual fish migration off the coast of South Africa.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Steven Benjamin; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[Alt text: sardines in a swirling bait ball]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; David GrimmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystu...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 16, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows. Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of Johannesburg, joins us to talk about his Science Advances paper on origins of the sardine run —a massive annual fish migration off the coast of South Africa. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 16, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA ’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow. Next, Eileen Roesler, an engineering psychologist at the Technical University of Berlin, discusses the benefits of making robots that look and act like people—it’s not always as helpful as you would think. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: podcasts
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow.
Next, Eileen Roesler, a researcher and lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of human-robot automation, discusses the benefits of making robots that look and act like people—it’s not always as helpful as you would think.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Virginie Angéloz/Noun Project; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[Alt text: three robot drawings that look like people to different degrees]
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow.
Next, Eileen Roesler, a researcher and lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin in the field of human-robot automation, discusses the benefits of making robots that look and act like people—it’s not always as helpful as you would think.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Virginie Angéloz/Noun Project; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[Alt text: three robot drawings that look l...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Staff Writer Paul Voosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about plans for NASA ’s first visit to the Moon in 50 years—and the quick succession of missions that will likely follow. Next, Eileen Roesler, an engineering psychologist at the Technical University of Berlin, discusses the benefits of making robots that look and act like people—it’s not always as helpful as you would think. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: podcasts
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms
Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the many theories circulating about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and why finding the right one is important. Next, Ed Narevicius, a professor in the chemical and biological physics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, talks with Sarah about creating vortex beams of atoms —a quantum state in which the phase of the matter wave of an atom rotates around its path, like a spiral staircase. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 2, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms
Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the many theories circulating about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and why finding the right one is important.
Next, Ed Narevicius, a professor in the chemical and biological physics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, talks with Sarah about creating vortex beams of atoms—a quantum state in which the phase of the matter wave of an atom rotates around its path, like a spiral staircase.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Alon Luski et al./Science 2021; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[Alt text: vortex beams showing holes in the cent...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 2, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
