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.
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.
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.
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.
Alycia Weinberger Carnegie Institution of Washington Our Solar System and Others Not So Like It on: Carnegie Institution Understanding the mechanisms for planet-building compels us to look out to young stars. The leftovers from star formation are the raw materials for planets, and in young solar systems astronomers look for analogues of our own early Solar System. Hear how astronomers learn about nascent planetary systems and the processes that sculpt them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kenneth Nealson California Institute of Technology / JPL Searching for Life in the Universe: Lessons from the Earth on: Carnegie Institution How will we recognize extra-terrestrial life if we have never seen it? The answer lies in reducing the search to its barest essentials as measured by physics and chemistry, with help from statistics and data mining.
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.
Molecule Screener Tests for Drugs, Bombs, Tumors on: Discovery Channel The portable chemical nose can test your money, your luggage, and even look inside your body. Produced by Kasey-Dee Gardner.
Erik Olsen New York Times Human Origins On Display on: New York Times A tour of the new Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Living with a Star-an encounter with Robert Walsh on: sciencelive Currently Robert is a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics and Mathematics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. His area of research is Solar Physics, where he uses space-based solar observatories (solar observing satellites) to monitor our closest star and then set-up sophisticated super-computer simulations to try and reproduce what we observe. He is married to Heather and has two children, Matthew (aged three) and Emma (aged 6 weeks).
John Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Interview on: Nobelprize.org Interview with the 2006 Nobel Laureates in Physics, John C. Mather and George F. Smoot, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Samuel Bogoch Replikins Ltd. Replikin genome sequences and survival rates in shrimp and human pandemics on: Replikins Ltd. Dr. Bogoch spoke at the World Aquaculture Conference in San Antonio, giving some background on his company's Replikins technology and announcing test results in conjunction with the University of Arizona. These results correlate virulence of four Taura virus strains in shrimp with the concentration of Replikin subsequences in the virus genomes. This is the first virus protein structure to have been shown to be quantitatively relate not only to the occurrence of epidemics, but now specifically to mortality rate of the host.
