A conversation between Lord Martin Rees, Terry Sejnowski, Larry Smarr, and Roger Bingham

In this edition of The Science Studio, Roger Bingham discusses the scientific risks and rewards of possible futures with Lord Martin Rees, past...

Eric Ahrens

• Stem Cells,
• in vivo imaging

Eric Ahrens discusses transition from the physical sciences to the biological sciences and his work adapting MRI to track groups of cells, e.g. stem...

Robert Kass and Mark Mercola

• Drug Screening,
• Stem Cells,
• long QT syndrome

Mark Mercola and Robert Kass discuss their collaborative work screening existing drugs to treat long QT syndrome. Their collaboration combines Dr....

Since President Obama announced the BRAIN Initiative in April 2013, this Grand Challenge has been a powerful driver of interdisciplinary efforts to...

A conversation with Juliane Kaminski

• cognition,
• comparative cognition,
• dogs

Juliane Kaminski talks about her research exploring the interactions between dogs and human and comparative cognition between dogs, apes, and...

Elizabeth Spelke

• Development,
• cognition,
• infants

Elizabeth Spelke discusses her career exploring what infants understand, from abstract concepts like geometry and numbers to emerging research on how...

A Conversation with James Watson

• DNA,
• James Watson,
• The Double Helix

A moment from this interview where Watson explains why the book had to be written here. On 25 April, 1953, Nature published "A Structure...

A moment with James Watson

• DNA,
• James Watson,
• The Double Helix

James Watson explains why he wrote The Double Helix. An excerpt from this interview.On 25 April, 1953, Nature published "A Structure for...

Evan Snyder

• Stem Cell

Evan Snyder surveys the history of stem cell research into its current "teenage" years, in which the answers are less easy and clean cut....

Tamas Horvath

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• life extension

Tamas Horvath explains his research into chronic diseases and their timelines as well as the research on life extension. He discuss the current...

Gerry Shadel

• Aging,
• Mitochondria

Gerry Shadel describes the basics of mitochondrial function and mitochondrial interaction with aging through signaling pathways.Gerry Shadel studies...

Mahtab Jafari

• Aging,
• life span expansion

Mahtab Jafari discusses therapeutic intervention on aging pathways and her work determining the mechanism of botanicals which her group has shown to...

Fred ‘Rusty’ Gage

Rusty Gage describes the history of the discovery of adult neurogenesis, including his group's role in it, his current work studying neurogenesis...

Gene Yeo

Gene Yeo discusses his career path which has taken him from a Chemical Engineering and Economics major to the Singapore military to studying...

Clodagh O'Shea

• Cancer,
• viruses

Clodagh O'Shea talks with Roger Bingham about what viruses have taught us about the genetics of cancer and ways of using that knowledge to create...

John Young

• HIV,
• viruses

John Young talks with Roger Bingham about the difference between the common cold virus and HIV and why finding treatments for viruses is a moving...

Tom Albright

• Architecture,
• Art,
• Perception,
• Schizophrenia,
• neuroscience,
• vision

Tom Albright talks with Roger Bingham about visual perception, his research into how cortex represents features from images, what schizophrenia can...

Chuck Stevens

• consciousness,
• neuroscience,
• scaling relations,
• synaptic transmission

"Neuroscientist's Neuroscientist" Chuck Stevens talks with Roger Bingham about his trajectory through research science, his interest in...

A conversation about digital culture and women in science and technology

Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, has a new book - Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead - which is generating controversy....

Terry Sejnowski

• neuroscience

Understanding the Human Brain was the subject of an editorial in Science, 4 November 2011, written by Terry Sejnowski and Sydney Brenner. It is also...

Charles Czeisler

• Boston Celtics,
• drowsy driving,
• sleep,
• sleep apnea,
• sleep cycle

Charles Czeisler discusses his work improving the  Boston Celtics' sleep cycles, when students school should start based on age, sleep...

University of California, San Diego

• Morality,
• neuroscience

Patricia Churchland discusses her new book, Braintrust, with Roger Bingham at the Estancia Hotel in La Jolla, CA. For more of Patricia...

University of California, San Diego and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Roger Bingham sits down with Patricia and Anne Churchland to discuss Anne's research on the neuroscience of decision making and Patricia's new book,...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Partha Mitra is a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His work involves developing an understanding of the behavior of complex biological...

Columbia University

Martin Chalfie is the William R Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology at Columbia University. His group uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans...

New York University

 Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University. She studies organization of memory in the medial...

New York University and SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Andre Fenton is Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He is also an Associate Professor of Physiology...

A Conversation about Communicating Science

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, host of the PBS series NOVA Science Now and co-host...

A conversation with Brian Greene about The Hidden Reality

Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University. He is recognized for a number of...

The New York Academy of Sciences

• New York Academy of Sciences,
• education

Meghan Groome attended Colorado College and graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University. She served as Senior Policy Analyst at the...

President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences

• New York Academy of Sciences,
• education

Ellis Rubinstein has been President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) since 2002. He came to the Academy after more than 13 years...

Salk Institute

This is Part 1 of a two part conversation.  A clip from the conversation and Part 2 are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished...

Salk Institute

This is Part 2 of a two part conversation. A clip from the conversation and Part 1 are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow...

A moment with Sydney Brenner

This is clip from a two part conversation. Part 1 and Part 2 of the conversation are also available. Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of...

Congratulations to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka on winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine

• Stem Cells,
• cloning

John Gurdon is a Distinguished Group Leader and an Emeritus Professor in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University. He is a Foreign Associate of...

University of California, Berkeley

Matt Walker is the Principal Investigator of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,...

University of California, San Francisco

• Learning,
• physiology

Loren Frank is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. His lab's research is focused...

Intelius

• education

Naveen Jain is Co-Founder and CEO of Intelius, Co-Chairman of Education and Global Development at the X Prize Foundation where he is focused on...

A Conversation with Mariette DiChristina

August 28, 1845 was the date of the first issue of the oldest continuously published magazine in the US. Take a guess. Harper's maybe? No, that was...

University of California, Berkeley

Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and an affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is...

Loren Frank

This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Loren Frank is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Physiology at the University of...

Naveen Jain

This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Naveen Jain is Co-Founder and CEO of Intelius, Co-Chairman of Education and Global Development...

Matthew Walker

• Excerpt

This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Matt Walker is the Principle Investigator of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory in the...

Alison Gopnik

• Excerpt

This is an excerpt. The full conversation is here. Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and an affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the...

A conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Astrology,
• Astronomy,
• Carl Sagan,
• Economy,
• Hayden Planetarium,
• NOVA Science Now,
• Newton,
• Pluto,
• education,
• science literacy

To celebrate the re-booting of Carl Sagan's landmark series "Cosmos", this is an-depth conversation between new series host Neil DeGrasse...

University of Cambridge

Nicola Clayton is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society, Departmental Graduate Tutor and Chair of the Graduate Education...

Lord Martin Rees, Patricia Smith Churchland and AC Grayling

Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of ...

Author

Lucy Hawking has worked extensively as a journalist for many British newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Times. She has...

University of London

• Atheism,
• Faith,
• Public Policy,
• Rights,
• Vegetarianism,
• Violence,
• religion

AC Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has...

University of California, San Diego and Duke University

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand...

University of California, San Diego and University of Cambridge

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Brain,
• Criminal Law,
• Death Penalty,
• Justice,
• Juvenile,
• Teenage,
• neuroscience

Terry Maroney is an Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, juvenile justice,...

Vanderbilt University

• Economics,
• Law,
• Legal,
• Punishment,
• Reciprocation,
• Technology,
• Truth,
• cognition,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral...

UC San Diego and Stanford University

• Evolution,
• Memory,
• Motor System,
• Perception,
• Repetition,
• Technology,
• cognition,
• neuroscience

Patricia Smith Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand ...

Harvard University and University of San Diego

• Courtroom,
• Emotion,
• Enhancement,
• Judge,
• Law,
• Lie Detection,
• Mercy,
• Sentencing,
• Technology,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience

Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Co-Director of the Petri-Flom center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and...

Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Georgetown University

• Conscience,
• DNA,
• Evidence,
• Legal System,
• Lie Detection,
• Medical,
• Uncertainty,
• fMRI

Jay Aronson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research is focues on the interactions of...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain Imaging,
• Cognitive Science,
• Humanity,
• Incarceration,
• Law,
• Lie Detection,
• MRI,
• Model,
• Steroids,
• fMRI,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• politics

Owen Jones is a Professor of Law and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Law School. His current research is focused on law and behavioral...

A conversation with Cynthia Breazeal

• Elder care,
• Interaction,
• Robot,
• education,
• physical therapy,
• social robotics

Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder and Director of...

A conversation with Richard Dawkins

• Bee,
• Evolution,
• Group Selection,
• Natural Selection,
• Subversion,
• Theology,
• genetics

*Apologies for the technical difficulties.  The camera was kinder to the Scripps Pier (which is rather lovely) than it was to Bingham or...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Behavior,
• Brain,
• Criminal,
• Law,
• Trust,
• Violence,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy,
• religion

Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of criminal...

Vanderbilt University Law School

• Intentionality,
• Locked in syndrome,
• philosophy,
• religion

Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. She researches and writes about the intersection of...

Harvard University

• Creation,
• Culture,
• Global Warming,
• Ignorance,
• Institution,
• Public Policy,
• politics,
• religion,
• science literacy

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

A conversation with Pardis Sabeti

• Evolution,
• Lactose,
• Lassa,
• Natural Selection,
• Polymorphism,
• Women in Science,
• genetics,
• music

Pardis Sabeti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard...

• Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

University of Oregon

• Archaea,
• Conservation,
• Eukaryote,
• Genetic Variation,
• Metagenomics,
• Microbe,
• Pollution,
• Prokaryote

Jessica Green is an applied and theoretical ecologist and Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She is...

KITP

• Asymptotic Freedom,
• Einstein,
• Elementary Particle,
• Forces,
• Nucleus,
• Particle Accelerator,
• Quantom Chromodynamics,
• Quarks,
• Theoretical Physics

David Gross is a particle physicist and string theorist and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Frank Wiczek and David Politzer...

Harvard University

Dan Schrag is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He studies climate and...

• Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

A Conversation with Sean Carroll

• Boltzmann,
• Cosmology,
• Entropy,
• Multiverse,
• The Big Bang,
• Time,
• Universe

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist and Senior Research Associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research is focused...

President of the Royal Society

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the title of...

President of the Royal Society

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

This is a continuation of the conversation with Lord Martin Rees, Science Studio Guest. Lord Martin Rees is a Professor of Cosmology and...

• Lord Martin Rees,
• President of Royal Society

Lord Martin Rees five minute short

Terrence Sejnowski is an HHMI investigator, the Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational...

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

Part 3

Colin Blakemore is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He also holds Professorship at the University of Warwick and the Duke...

A conversation with Lord Julian Hunt

• Newton,
• Social Policy,
• cities,
• climate change,
• education,
• natural disaster,
• weather

Filmed at Calit2 Studios at UC San Diego. *Do not adjust your set! Due to technical difficulties some of the coloring is off in this video -...

A Conversation with Susan Greenfield

• Role Playing Games,
• Second Life,
• Social Networking,
• consciousness,
• twitter

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and a member of the House of Lords. She is known as a popularizer of science,...

a conversation with Horace Barlow

• Cambridge,
• Communication,
• Francis Crick,
• consciousness,
• social structure,
• vision

Horace Barlow is a British visual neuroscientist who has done much work towards understanding human vision and consciousness, beginning with his...

a conversation with Sam Harris

• Neuroloscience,
• Psychedelics,
• belief,
• philosophy,
• religion

Sam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason which won the 2005 PEN/Martha...

a conversation with philosopher Anthony Grayling

• Ethics,
• belief,
• philosophy,
• politics,
• religion,
• the good life

Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has...

• Evolution,
• Human Nature,
• Perception,
• cognition,
• language

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he...

a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.

• Einstein,
• charm,
• education,
• politics

Leon M. Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at Illinois...

with chemist Peter Atkins

• Energy,
• Second Law of Thermodynamics,
• life,
• religion,
• science

Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including...

with Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto

• Carbon 60,
• chemistry,
• consciousness,
• discovery

Sir Harold Kroto, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert...

with philosopher Daniel Dennett

• Enlightenment,
• education,
• meaning of life,
• philosophy,
• religion

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is University Professor and Austin B....

with Nobel Laureate James D. Watson

• Behavior,
• Communication,
• Culture,
• How to,
• Physics,
• Strategy,
• education,
• genetics,
• religion

James D. Watson is a molecular biologist celebrated for his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick for which he received the Nobel...

with neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás

• Cell function,
• Central Nervous System,
• Evolution,
• Intentionality,
• neuroscience,
• physiology

Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the...

with Nobel Laureate Richard Axel

• Evolution,
• Memory,
• Perception,
• Smell,
• genetics,
• language,
• neuroscience

Richard Axel is a neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 with Linda Buck for his work on the olfactory system. He...

with anthropologist Helen Fisher

• Culture,
• Evolution,
• Personality,
• Sexuality,
• anthropology,
• gender,
• love

Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies the evolution of love, sex, marriage and gender differences in humans. She is a Research Professor and...

with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

• India,
• consciousness,
• discovery,
• education,
• mathematics,
• neuroscience

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the...

with neurophilosophers Pat and Paul Churchland

• Aristotle,
• Early life,
• Plato,
• education,
• neuroscience,
• philosophy

Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President’s Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice,...

with mathematician Jack Cowan

• cybernetics,
• hallucinations,
• mathematics,
• mind,
• neuroscience

Jack Cowan is Professor of Mathematics and Neurology at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with understanding how circuits in the...