CognitionNovember 27, 2017
Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled
Journalist Erik Vance talks about his first book, Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal.
Uncertain
A five-part limited series that explores the surprisingly deep and thrilling ways that uncertainty shapes science.
Space & PhysicsNovember 12, 2017
Come On and Zoom (through the Universe)
Caleb Scharf, director of Columbia University’s Astrobiology Center talks about his latest book, The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Almost Nothing, and the OSIRIS-REx space mission.
CultureOctober 25, 2017
Monsters: Not Just for Halloween
Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago and author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, talks about our enduring fascination with monsters.
Public HealthOctober 18, 2017
Maryn McKenna's Big Chicken, Part 2
Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 2 of 2)
Public HealthOctober 18, 2017
Maryn McKenna's Big Chicken, Part 1
Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. (Part 1 of 2)
ChemistryOctober 4, 2017
Nobel Prize Explainer: Catching Proteins in the Act
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy that can determine high-resolution structures of biomolecules in solution.
The SciencesOctober 3, 2017
Nobel Prize Explainer: Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
BiologyOctober 2, 2017
Nobel Prize Explainer: Circadian Rhythm's Oscillatory Control Mechanism
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms.
EvolutionSeptember 27, 2017
Does Evolution Repeat Itself?
Jonathan Losos, biology professor at Harvard and curator of herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and the Future of Evolution.
Space & PhysicsAugust 8, 2017
The Great American Eclipse
In advance of the big solar eclipse on August 21, author and journalist David Baron talks about his new book American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
CognitionAugust 1, 2017
Curiouser and Curiouser
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio ventures deep into the human mind in his new book, Why? What Makes Us Curious.
EvolutionJuly 22, 2017
The Shark That Conquered the Whorl
Journalist and author Susan Ewing talks about her new book Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil. (And we'll discuss how Helicoprion is not technically a shark, but it's really close!)