Superheroes of Science

Superheroes of Science

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How do architects design science laboratories?

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 7:57 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 31 seconds

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What is Data Science and How is it Used?

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds

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The Dark Side of the Moon: and other misconceptions...

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 7:32 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 27 seconds

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Conservation of Valuable Land Through a Land Trust

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds

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The Quest to Discover Dark Matter

Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 2:04 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Exploring Ancient Volcanoes: Unveiling Insights from the Past

Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds

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Demystifying Severe Storms and Tornadoes: Separating Fact from Fiction

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Frozen Quest: A Geochemist's Antarctic Expedition Searching for Knowledge

Published: July 24, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 28 seconds

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Understanding Drug Discovery: Finding the Cure for the Flu

Published: July 11, 2023, 8:02 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds

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Moons of the Milky Way: The Ingredients for Life

Published: June 26, 2023, 1:07 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Using Weather Balloons for Scientific Research and Education

Published: May 23, 2023, 3:53 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds

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What to Expect and do During a Total Solar Eclipsed

Published: May 8, 2023, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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Learning from Seismic White Noise

Published: April 27, 2023, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 10 seconds

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CubeSats: The Future of Space Exploration

Published: March 29, 2023, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds

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Agrivoltaics: Pairing Agriculture with Solar Farms for a Cleaner Environment

Published: Feb. 23, 2023, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds

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Explore Titan: A World Like No Other

Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 57 seconds

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Biomedical Engineering: Designing the least invasive medical procedures

Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 9:06 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds

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Shooting Stars: Could They be From Other Planets?

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 3:12 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds

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Can you x-ray a goldfish? A discussion with a veterinary radiologist.

Published: Nov. 28, 2022, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds

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Where are the ingredients in your medicine coming from?

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 5:53 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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Getting the Green Light: How a research program is chosen for NASA funding

Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds

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Heliophysics and Solar Eclipses with NASA HEAT

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 51 seconds

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World Water and Wetlands: Looking at the Present and Considering the Future

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 5:34 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 24 seconds

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What a Chemist has to do with an OLED TV

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 34 seconds

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Alex Wei

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 4:17 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 34 seconds

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Chaos of the Weather: An Interview with a Meteorologist

Published: July 14, 2022, 5:06 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 11 seconds

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They found water on Mars! Will they find life?

Published: July 4, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 50 seconds

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Exploring new energy needs: Environmentally responsible energy products

Published: June 16, 2022, 12:22 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 56 seconds

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Sequencing genes to understand the instructions for life: All about the -omics

Published: May 9, 2022, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 53 seconds

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Going green from the roof down: Green Roof install

Published: April 25, 2022, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds

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Designing the Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure of the Future

Published: April 11, 2022, 6:39 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds

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YOU are Wired to Learn Through Stories

Published: March 28, 2022, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 10 seconds

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Ancient Pollen, Dinosaur Tracks, Volcanic Ash Beds: Clues to the Past for Geophysicists

Published: March 15, 2022, 11:47 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 2 seconds

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Understanding and Preventing Invasive Species

Published: Feb. 28, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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Respectfully Blending Indigenous Knowledge with Western Science

Published: Feb. 14, 2022, noon
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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What’s up with microplastics, pharmaceuticals in the water, and where are they coming from?

Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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What is the Richter Scale and how a logarithmic scale works

Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 45 seconds

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Avoiding Injury: Is it just soreness or something more serious?

Published: Jan. 10, 2022, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Top Tips from Purdue Registered Dietitian for Positive Nutrition Changes

Published: Jan. 3, 2022, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 36 seconds

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How much of the brain do we use? What are some important things we need to know about our brain?

Published: Dec. 20, 2021, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Using artificial or high intensity sweeteners: Can they help with my nutritional goals?

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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The Density of Water and Measuring Hypoxia in the Great Lakes: Looking into Water Quality

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 31 seconds

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Martian minerals? How do we know what’s there?

Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 27 seconds

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What is Climate Change and how do we really know?

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 5 seconds

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What are aerosols, where are they, and why we should care

Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 6:37 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds

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Cryptography and Number Theory: From Password Encryption to Secret Codes

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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Bioenergy, Biomass, and What is in a Barrel of Petroleum?

Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Effect

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 10:56 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds

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How Anthropologists Know What You Ate and Where You Came From!

Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 1:20 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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How Scientists Measure Radioactive Isotopes

Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 11 seconds

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Sea Level Rise in North American Coastal Regions: Impacts upon Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems

Published: Aug. 31, 2021, 4:47 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 48 seconds

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Wildfire Recovery: How to Become Fire-adapted

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 7:52 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 45 seconds

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The Real Story Behind Asian giant hornets known as Murder Hornets or Halloween Hornets

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 32 seconds

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Mapping the Guts of Volcanoes: A Collaborative Effort

Published: Aug. 2, 2021, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

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Using Deep Learning and Blockchain Technologies to Improve Cybersecurity

Published: July 26, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 2 seconds

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The process of visualizing data: why we need it and how it provides insight to big data

Published: July 19, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds

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Quantum Mechanics Explained: Wave Mechanics are all Around You

Published: July 13, 2021, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds

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How Fireworks are Made

Published: June 22, 2021, 8:08 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds

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How to Help Prevent Hackers from Stealing Your Information

Published: June 18, 2021, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 32 seconds

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Good plants, bad rap: Invasive species and the Bradford Pear. What can we do?

Published: June 9, 2021, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds

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Plant Propagation 101

Published: June 7, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 12 seconds

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Understanding the Science Behind MRI Technology

Published: May 24, 2021, 5:34 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 12 seconds

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Researching the Kiss of Death

Published: May 17, 2021, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds

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Looking for Alien Life: Goldilocks Planets and Alien Smog

Published: May 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 15 seconds

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What a PAINS! Medicinal chemistry and the challenges of developing cancer drugs.

Published: April 30, 2021, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 12 seconds

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Metal Clouds and Exoplanet Science

Published: April 26, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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What does it take for a farm to be considered organic? Why does organic food cost more?

Published: April 19, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

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Harmful Impacts of Road Salt and Possible Alternatives

Published: April 12, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes

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Understanding droughts. Yes, there are going to be more!

Published: April 5, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 54 seconds

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Why You Have Body Odor: The Science Behind Sweating, Deodorant and Antiperspirant.

Published: March 29, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 46 seconds

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Owl’s response to stimulus inspires hearing test for infants

Published: March 22, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds

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Regenerative farming: Reducing carbon emissions, increasing nutrient density, creating healthy soil

Published: March 15, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 9 seconds

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How to Save the Honey Bees, Their Life Cycles, and Hive Management

Published: March 8, 2021, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

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Geography in the Modern World, Geospatial Technology, GIS and Story Maps

Published: March 1, 2021, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 6 seconds

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Using machine learning to track player stats in major league baseball

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, noon
Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds

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Making Sense of Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News, Memes, Twitter Bots, and Intent in Social Media.

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 1:24 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds

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Cultural Anthropologist, Andrew Flachs, discusses ways people create the environments and GMO seeds

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 20 seconds

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Understanding humanity: Dr. Andrew Flachs explains the four areas of anthropology

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 56 seconds

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Treating brain tumors and improving quality of life for cancer patients

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds

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Erica Carlson describes how electrons can demonstrate states of matter.

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds

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The role of machine learning in the quest for drug free therapy to treat pain and inflammation

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 21 seconds

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Catherine Searle discusses native and invasive species, and disease ecology

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds

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Dr. Chris Uyeda discusses catalysts, catalytic reactions, and transition metals.

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 4:36 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds

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Discovering proteins and searching for a treatment to Parkinson’s

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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NASA Ambassador Explains Blue Moon, Blood Moon, Harvest Moon, New Moon, and Why to Learn Coding

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 23 seconds

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How websites and social media are manipulating you with Dark Patterns

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

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Things you need to know: Ice on Mars, types of planets, and the Earth’s tilt.

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds

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Update on COVID-19 vaccine development and why you need to get that flu shot

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 12:03 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds

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How is wastewater treated and used...and are you drinking it?

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 27 seconds

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How fungi create Zombie Cicadas and interact with other living organisms

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 1:52 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 54 seconds

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Blue Holes, the oceans’ role in climate change, and underwater cave diving

Published: Aug. 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 37 minutes 55 seconds

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State Chemist discusses seeds from China

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 11:59 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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We are getting closer to a faster and more convenient COVID-19 test.

Published: July 27, 2020, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds

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Storm Chaser explains the data of severe storms

Published: July 13, 2020, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 7 seconds

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Saharan Dust Cloud 2020 explained

Published: July 6, 2020, 1:31 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds

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How to prepare for a software engineering career

Published: June 25, 2020, 10:47 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Diving into the process of sending a potential leukemia drug compound to clinical trials.

Published: June 22, 2020, 8:09 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 1 second

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Brighter clouds? Current research on pollution can explain chemical and physical cloud properties.

Published: June 20, 2020, 11:32 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds

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What happens to clouds when pollution in our atmosphere drops by 30%?

Published: June 8, 2020, 6:28 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds

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Mars 2020: looking for signs of life with Perseverance and Mars Sample Return

Published: May 29, 2020, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds

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NASA Planetary Scientist, Barbara Cohen, uses samples gathered from rover missions for geochronology

Published: May 15, 2020, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 46 seconds

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David Thompson describes how viruses can be blocked from the infection cycle with the use of drug inhibitors.

Published: May 11, 2020, 2:05 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds

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Angeline Lyon, Professor of Biochemistry, researches enzymes needed to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system

Published: April 24, 2020, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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Jeffrey Lucas researches animal communication, and explains the complexity of vocal cords and the social systems.

Published: April 9, 2020, 6:19 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 43 seconds

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Christopher Roemmele: think of a lesson as a story that bridges from the known to the unknown

Published: April 6, 2020, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds

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Mike Reppert, Chemistry Professor, studies photosynthesis to understand plants, algae and bacteria.

Published: March 30, 2020, 7:26 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 1 second

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Jani Sparks, Stable Isotope Specialist, discusses her analysis of samples at Purdue University.

Published: March 23, 2020, 4:04 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds

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Birgit Kaufmann discusses synthesizing a material found on the wings of butterflies and beetles

Published: March 16, 2020, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 4 seconds

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Professor Andy Freed discusses asteroid impacts and explains the heat inside the moon.

Published: March 9, 2020, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds

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Michael Baldwin explains meteorology, weather models, El Nino, La Nina and more

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 11:54 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Betsy Parkinson (Chemistry and Pharmacy) is looking for new antibiotics in the soils.

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds

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Professor Robert Nowack is a Seismologist who listens to the sound waves of earthquakes.

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 8:05 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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Lynn Bryan discusses the CATALYST program and science education research

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds

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Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera discusses neural networks and artificial intelligence

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 8:20 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 24: Stephen Hoffmann

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 23: Robin Tanamachi

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 22: Chris Andronicos

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 21: Lisa Welp

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 1 second

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Episode 20: Brooke Max

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 19: Dan Cziczo

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 18: Bill Bayley

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 17: Pedro Falcon

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 16: Anne Lewis

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 15: Tony Murphy

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 14: Michael Jabot

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 13: Jessica Taylor

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 12: Saad Haq

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 1:47 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 11: Jon Rienstra-Kiracofe

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 10: Marissa Tremblay

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 9: John Cushman

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 8: Sri Iyer-Biswas

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 7: David Eichinger

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 1 second

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Episode 6: Dan Chavas

Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 5: Christina Li

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 4: Phil Sands

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 3: Lucy Flesch

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 1:41 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 2: Darryl Granger

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 1: Corey Thompson

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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