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Return to Mars:  New Images and MSL Cameras (webcast)
Running Time:
00:50:00
Join us today for a very special Mars webcast! We will have our staff scientists talking about new images from Mars, and the cameras that take those pictures. We also have two special musical guests joining us; Thomas Dolby will sing in the show, and Reggie Watts will sing us out!

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 9, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science
After Dark:  This is Your Brain on Meditation with Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas (clip)
Running Time:
00:37:04
In this special lecture given at After Dark, Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas relates scientific studies of contemplative practices. Dr. Simon-Thomas is Science Director for the Greater Goods Science Center at UC Berkeley. Her current research examines the conceptual nature, experiential properties, and biological underpinnings of positive states like compassion, as well as the potential for cultivating these states and related acts of altruism.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: May 8, 2012
Format: Lecture
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
SmallTalk:  Nature’s Playing Field: Nanotechnology and Medicine (podcast)
Running Time:
00:30:48
Dr. Tejal Desai of UCSF talks about the intersection of nanotechnology and medicine, an area of research that has dramatic implications for the future. It could lead to artificially engineered tissues, or more effective drug delivery. It could also result in new kinds of health monitoring devices, as Dr. Thomas Murray, from the Hastings Center, explains.

Project: NISE: SmallTalk | Browse All

Date: May 22, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Sciences/Biology, Medicine