PNAS Science Sessions

Self-driving cars 11.06.2019 6:47 ↓

Jeff Schneider explains how self-driving cars use machine learning to learn the rules of the road.

Science for the general public 11.06.2019 6:58 ↓

Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience.

Interview with 2017 Breakthrough Prize winner Steve Elledge 11.06.2019 7:07 ↓

Steve Elledge discusses how cells sense and respond to damage to their DNA.

DNA folding by loop extrusion 11.06.2019 6:45 ↓

Erez Lieberman Aiden discusses a model of how DNA folds to fit inside a cell nucleus.

Maize domestication in Mexico 11.06.2019 4:31 ↓

Researchers Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada and Miguel Vallebueno discuss 5,000-year-old partially domesticated maize.

Future of infectious disease research 11.06.2019 6:48 ↓

Charles Rice and Robert Landford discuss the future of hepatitis C research without chimpanzees.

Honeybees and biofuel crops 11.06.2019 6:34 ↓

Clint Otto discusses the impact of land-use changes on beekeepers in the Dakotas.

Recoding an organism 11.06.2019 6:09 ↓

George Church, Matthieu Landon, and Michael Napolitano discuss the genetic replacement of arginine codons in E. coli.

Interview with 2016 Kavli Prize Winners Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss 11.06.2019 6:39 ↓

Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss describe the detection of gravitational waves with LIGO.

20th-century excess male mortality 11.06.2019 6:33 ↓

Eileen Crimmins discusses the mortality difference between the sexes and its possible causes.

Remodelling brain function 11.06.2019 6:43 ↓

Kavli Prize winner Eve Marder discusses flexibility and stability in neural circuits.

Climate change and irrigation water 11.06.2019 5:41 ↓

Joshua Elliott discusses potential impacts of climate change on water availability for irrigation.

Modeling disease spread 11.06.2019 5:24 ↓

Andrea Rinaldo explains how cell phone data can be used to model disease spread.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Amanda Woerman 11.06.2019 5:43 ↓

Amanda Woerman discusses the role of the alpha-synuclein prion in the neurodegenerative disorder multiple system atrophy.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Anne Case and Angus Deaton 11.06.2019 6:07 ↓

Anne Case and Angus Deaton describe recent changes in mortality trends for white non-Hispanic Americans.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov 11.06.2019 6:05 ↓

Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov describe an origami-inspired approach to designing deployable structures and metamaterials.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Mark Jacobson 11.06.2019 5:29 ↓

Mark Jacobson explains the feasability of a 100% wind, water, and solar power grid in the continental United States.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir 11.06.2019 5:52 ↓

Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir describe how to mimic rare earth elements using superatom clusters.

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yatrik Shah 11.06.2019 5:16 ↓

Yatrik Shah describes the connection between maternal iron absorption during lactation and neonatal anemia.

Nanoparticles for disease detection 11.06.2019 6:02 ↓

Sangeeta Bhatia describes the development of nanoparticles that can aid in detecting cancer and other diseases.

Origins of mathematical ability 11.06.2019 3:35 ↓

Stanislas Dehaene investigates how certain areas of the brain might be related to mathematical ability.

Building the James Webb Space Telescope 11.06.2019 5:36 ↓

John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains why and how the James Webb Space Telescope is being built.

Tracking endemic tuberculosis 11.06.2019 6:00 ↓

Robyn Lee and Marcel Behr investigate the genomics of endemic tuberculosis in Northern Canada.

Brain clarity 11.06.2019 6:33 ↓

Karl Deisseroth explains a method to explore the wiring and structure of the brain.

Gene drive for malaria mosquito control 11.06.2019 7:11 ↓

Anthony James describes how gene drives can be used to spread malaria parasite resistance in mosquitoes.