Science Talk

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo-Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng, tenured in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. and currently Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago talks about her new book How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lee Dugatkin, evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist at the University of Louisville, talks about his article in the June Scientific American called "The Networked Animal," about how social networks in disparate animals species affect the lives of the entire group and its individual members. His co-author is Matthew Hasenjager, a doctoral candidate in his lab      Learn more about your ad...

Astronomer Alan Smale spends his days at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center exploring celestial objects, but he's also the author of Clash of Eagles, an alternate-history novel in which a Roman Legion invades North America   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American’s Dina Maron talks with Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general for health security at the World Health Organization, about the current Ebola outbreak, the threat of sexual transmission and the hope for a vaccine. They were both at an Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats held at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C., concentrating on Ebola in wes...

University of Exeter archaeologist José Iriarte talks to freelance journalist Cynthia Graber about his efforts to understand human activity in and influence on the Amazon region for the last 13 millennia     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In conjunction with this magazine's inclusion on the March 12 episode of The Big Bang Theory, here's an edited version of a talk by the sitcom's science advisor, U.C.L.A. physicist David Saltzberg, about his role and the show's reach   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Berlin, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, is the co-host of the new CUNY TV program Science Goes to the Movies   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 2 of 2   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in-Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 1 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks about Ebola with tropical medicine and infectious disease expert Daniel Bausch of Tulane University at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American senior editor Josh Fischman joins nanoscience researchers Shana Kelly, Yamuna Krishnan, Benjamin Bratton, along with moderator Bridget Kendall from the BBC World Service program The Forum   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. The winning work is explained by chemistry Nobel Committee members Sven Lidin and Måns Ehrenberg   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light–emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. The winning work is explained by physics Nobel Committee members Per Delsing and Olle Inganäs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain—an inner GPS. The winning work is explained by Karolinska Institute faculty and Nobel Committee members Göran Hansson, Ole Kiehn, Hans Forssberg and Juleen Zierath   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 is in port in Kodiak, Alaska, on September 2nd. We talk about our last few stops and hear from passenger and Manhattan Project veteran Margaret Asprey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 31st, which allows us to post audio from a fascinating taxi trip through Juneau on August 28th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Juneau, Alaska Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Ketchikan, Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientific American editor–turned-sci-fi-writer Mark Alpert, author of Final Theory and Extinction, talks about his latest book, The Furies    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices