Interview on: The Vega Science Trust Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever for the discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. The second half of the prize was awarded to Brian David Josephson. He is known for his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited the electron tunneling phenomenon.
Roger Kornberg Stanford University Interview on: Nobelprize.org Interview with 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Kornberg, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Interview on: The Vega Science Trust In 2001 Alan MacDiarmid was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa for the discover and developlment of conductive polymers.
James Barber Brookhaven National Laboratory Photosystem II by James Barber on: Brookhaven National Laboratory James Barber, Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College, London, gives a BSA Distinguished Lecture titled, The Structure and Function of Photosystem II: The Water-Splitting Enzyme of Photosynthesis. April 18, 2005.
Kathleen Dudzinski Dolphin Communication Project Eavesdropping on Dolphins on: WGBH Forum Following a screening of the IMAX Film Dolphins, Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, Director of the Dolphin Communication Project at Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, presents details from her 14 years of studying dolphin communication in the Bahamas, Japan and Honduras.
Peter Galison Brookhaven National Laboratory The Pyramid and the Ring on: Brookhaven National Laboratory On the restructuring of physics in modern times. Galison maintains that certain branches of research that are generally thought to be physics are not considered part of the discipline by some scientists.
Larry Page Google AAAS Plenary Lecture on: Google Video Larry Page discusses the key role of science in economic progress, discusses the need for science to market itself better, motivating kids through science, and touches on prospects for progress in key scientific areas.
Hans Reiser Namesys The Reiser4 Filesystem on: Google TechTalks The ReiserFS project aims to add support for semi-structured data querying to the filesystem namespace. Reiser4 is the storage layer for this. It stores all files in a dancing (not balanced)tree, and is currently the overall fastest filesystem for traditional filesystem usage patterns.
Roger Kornberg Stanford University The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription on: Nobelprize.org Roger Kornberg delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2006 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Hkan Wennerstrm, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
Kwabena Boahen Stanford University Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex on: California Insitute for Telecommunications, the Science Network Impressive project to model the human brain with a custom VLSI architecture that emulates neurons.
William Sargent Author Crab Wars: Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Health on: WGBH Forum William Sargent, environmental author and NOVA consultant, reveals intense debates currently surrounding horseshoe crabs.
Bill Stone Leader, US Deep Caving Team Journey Towards the Center of the Earth on: Google TechTalks While truly known only to a handful of teams worldwide, the last -- and arguably the most technologically and psychologically challenging -- terrestrial frontier is being systematically explored in our time: that of extraordinarily deep cave systems. And, like the original exploration of the Poles, and the race to climb Everest, there is a quiet, yet spirited competition now to explore the once-and-for-all-time deepest natural abyss on Earth.
Saskia DeVries Harvard University Genetically Modified Foods on: Harvard University Harvard Medical School graduate students discuss the history, future, ethical issues, and health concerns surrounding the controversial, multi-billion-dollar science of genetically modifying food.
The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla on: Google Video Nikola Tesla was a world-renowned Serb-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history, but also made bizarre claims late in his career.
Robert Weinberg Whitehead Institute - MIT The Origins of Cancer Stem Cells on: WGBH Forum Why is cancer so difficult to treat? The answer may be found in the cancer stem cell, a concept that scientists have only recently begun to explore.
David Charbonneau Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Planets R Us on: WGBH Forum The diversity of planets detected around our neighboring stars has taken astronomers completely by surprise.
Documents, Data and People: World Wide Webs on: This talk will look at the design and growth of the World Wide Web, at the weblike connections between people, and toward a future of a web of machine-readable knowledge.
