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Chemist Allen Bard is a 2011 National Medal of Science Laureate
Chemist Allen Bard, 2011 National Medal of Science Laureate, has spent his entire career at the University of Texas at Austin. His work include three books, more than 800 peer-reviewed research papers, 75 book chapters, 23 patents and...
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Cybersickness - Innovation Nation
Cybersickness is a form of motion sickness that occurs in virtual reality environments. It's the same type of feeling some people get when they watch 3D movies or play 3D video games. Researchers are tracking down the cause and may come...
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Computer ESP - Innovation Nation
Talk about a lie detector test! Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing computer programs that can decode our brain activity and reveal what we're thinking about. See how they're doing it in this episode of Innovation...
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Artificial Retina - Innovation Nation
After spending much of her life blind, Kathy Blake is seeing a glimmer of hope, thanks to an artificial retina developed by a company called Second Sight and the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. A camera is built into a pair of...
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Ancient population discovery!
New evidence reveals a previously unknown population of ancient Native Americans. An NSF-funded team led by archaeologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed Ancient-DNA from the cremated remains of one of two already...
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Green Roofs - Innovation Nation
More than just a rooftop garden, green roofs improve our surroundings in a variety of ways. In this episode, Miles O'Brien speaks to Columbia University researchers about the benefits of building a better green roof.
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Evolving Brain - Mysteries of the Brain
Using amazing new technologies, evolutionary neuroscientist Melina Hale and her graduate students at the University of Chicago are discovering that the basic movements of one tiny fish can teach us big ideas about how the brain's...
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Butterfly cam catches cancer!
NSF-funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis, have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the Morpho butterfly to more accurately find lurking cancer. See...
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How economic growth, democratization and social tolerance lead to happiness.
Political scientist Ronald Inglehart, World Values Survey director at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says greater economic growth, democratization and social tolerance in 45 of 52 countries for which substantial time series...
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Using a smartphone to check cholesterol! NSF Science Now 19
In this week’s episode, we learn how our smartphone can be used to check our cholesterol and that great white sharks actually live longer than previously thought! Check it out!
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Enter the Community College Innovation Challenge
Are you a community college student who has a novel idea that uses science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)? The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) present the third...
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Math + Water = Strawberry Growth
California berry growers and mathematicians team up to minimize water usage while driving berry growth and profit in the Pajaro Valley and the nearby Salinas Valley - areas that produce nearly half of the strawberries grown in the United...
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What’s the right balance between theory and observation?
What’s the right balance between theory and observation? Dr. Michael Brown answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
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In-depth explanation of LIGO and gravitational wave detection
LIGO co-founder Rai Weiss talks about the complicated history of gravitational waves, a little about the LIGO detector and the first direct detection of gravitational waves, and a bit about the future.
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Micro-particles self-assemble into spinning gears
Self-assembly is common in nature, and enables life to function, from healing damage to changing shape. Now, researchers at UCSD and NYU have developed a new way to mimic self-assembly in the lab, coaxing specially designed microscopic...
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Robot visits NSF
DARwIn-OP, which stands for Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence–Open Platform, recently visited the National Science Foundation to participate in a video interview while he was in town for a National Robotics Week event....
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NSF Ocean Sciences Division Director David Conover answers questions about ocean acidification
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Computer scientist Cyntrica Eaton - ScienceLives
Cyntrica Eaton is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of several publications,...
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Disaster preparedness: keeping pets and their humans safe!
National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Georgia and Illinois State University explore past efforts to evacuate pets and their owners during 9 different disasters in the U.S. to identify how best to accommodate...
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Morehouse Men Dream to Teach K-12 Students
An innovative National Science Foundation-funded Discovery Research PreK-12 program helped these Morehouse College students fulfill a dream they had since they were high school juniors and seniors: become K-12 STEM teachers. Hear what...
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Eye on Home - Innovation Nation
On this Innovation Nation, learn about an NSF-funded project on remote monitoring of household appliances from a smartphone app.
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Engineering innovation to boost shellfish diversity, jobs
Marine Ecologist Brian Beal and a team based at the University of Maine at Machias Marine Science Field Station at the Downeast Institute are putting their aquaculture innovation skills to work. The team's goals are to diversify the U.S....
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How Does Carbon Get Into The Oceans? - The Carbon Cycle
How does carbon get into the oceans, and how much is in there?
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Teaching STEM with Augmented Reality Scenarios – LightUp
LightUp, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, has developed an educational augmented reality software application to help kids learn STEM subjects. LightUp’s Hololab software allows kids to try many different...