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099: Accelerating Science to Eradicate Disease with Priscilla Chan and Stephen Quake
The CZ Biohub Series – Part IV The Show About Science · 099: Accelerating Science to Eradicate Disease with Priscilla Chan and Stephen Quake The CZ Biohub’s inspiring story began when Priscilla Chan asked Stephen Quake a seemingly impossible question: “Is it possible to cure, prevent, and manage disease in our children’s lifetime?”. In 2016,…
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098: The Tiny Zebrafish Hotel with Merlin Lange, Loïc Royer, and Shruthi VijayKumar
Photo credits: Dale Ramos The CZ Biohub Series – Part III The Show About Science · 098: The Tiny Zebrafish Hotel with Merlin Lange, Loïc Royer, and Shruthi VijayKumar On the third installment of our CZ Biohub series, we visit a lab nicknamed “Le Petit Hotel de Poisson” (The Tiny Fish Hotel) where scientists are using…
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097: Mapping the Cell with Manuel Leonetti
Photo credit: Dale Ramos The CZ Biohub Series – Part II The Show About Science · 097: Mapping the Cell with Manuel Leonetti This is the second episode of our four part series focused on the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent, or manage disease by the end of…
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096: Bioengineering Malaria with Paul Lebel
Over the next 4 episodes, we’re going to take you on a tour of the CZ Biohub in San Francisco where scientists are working to cure, prevent, or manage disease by the end of the century. Every year, 400,000 people die of malaria – usually children in impoverished areas. In the first episode of our…
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006: Santa Science and the Physics of Christmas (Rerun)
We’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes of The Show About Science from 2015. Back when Nate was 5 years old, he interviewed Santa Claus about the science behind his workshop and what happens when kids send drawings of new toys for Santa to produce in his present factory. Santa than suggested that Nate talk…
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Vote for Nate! (Special Announcement)
Link to Vote: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/individual-episodes/general/science-education The Show About Science is a finalist in the 1st Annual Signal Awards. Your vote can help us win a listener’s choice award in the Science & Education category!! We can’t do this without your support, so please vote for Nate and The Show About Science. Listener’s Choice voting for Signal…
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095: Two Degrees with Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 novels for young readers, including Ground Zero, Refugee, Allies, Grenade, Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065, and Ban This Book. His latest novel, Two Degrees, puts climate change front and center as four different kids navigate the threats of global warming. He joins Nate on this…
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094: The Art of DALL-E 2 with Mark Chen
DALL-E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from written text descriptions. Mark Chen is a research scientist at OpenAI, the company the created DALL-E 2. He joins Nate on this episode to explain how AI is putting the art in artificial intelligence. Sign up to make your own…
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093: The Physics of Baseball with Alan Nathan
Alan Nathan has been a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois since 1977, but for the past 10 years, he has expanded his research interests to focus on the physics of baseball. His work looks at the dynamics of the collision between the ball and bat and the aerodynamics of…
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092: The Kings of Pain with Adam Thorn and Rob Alleva
The History Channel show, “Kings of Pain,” follows wildlife biologist Adam Thorn and professional animal handler Rob “Caveman” Alleva as they get bitten and stung by some of the most dangerous animals and vicious stinging insects in the world. On this episode of The Show About Science, Nate goes behind the scenes to learn how…
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