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Sara Seager - The Hunt for Planet B

For thousands of years, inspired by the…

From  Predrag Cvitanovic November 23rd, 2022 9 plays 0  

Abigail Diering - Sugar Transport in Nitrogen Fixing Plant Bacteria Symbiosis For Biofuel Crops

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From  Katie Gentilello May 7th, 2022 2 plays 0  

Elizabeth Loftus - The Fiction of Memory

For several decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been…

From  Katie Gentilello March 9th, 2020 95 plays 0  

Margaret Kosal - The Geopolitics of the Rare and Not-So-Rare Elements

Chemical elements have played important roles in…

From  Katie Gentilello November 20th, 2019 8 plays 0  

Takamitsu “Taka” Ito - Turning Sour, Bloated, and Out of Breath: Ocean Chemistry under Global Warming

In 1997, the Japanese oceanographer Yoshiyuki…

From  Katie Gentilello November 13th, 2019 3 plays 0  

Monica Halka - The Elusive End of the Periodic Table: Why Chase It?

For more than half a century, dedicated and eager…

From  Katie Gentilello September 19th, 2019 6 plays 0  

Gretchen Goldman - Science for the Public Good? Federal Air Pollution and Climate Policy in the Current Political Era

Guest speaker Gretchen Goldman, a Tech graduate…

From  Katie Gentilello August 5th, 2019 7 plays 0  

Sam Kean - The Periodic Table: A Treasure Trove of Passion, Adventure, Betrayal, and Obsession

Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese…

From  Katie Gentilello May 8th, 2019 13 plays 0  

Michael A. Filler - Celebrating Silicon: Its Success, Hidden History, and Next Act

The history of silicon is usually told as a…

From  Katie Gentilello March 11th, 2019 19 plays 0  

Michael Ford - Implications of Moral Organizational Behavior for Employee Beliefs, Motivation, and Well-Being

Workers are often assumed to construe their…

From  Katie Gentilello October 1st, 2018 17 plays 0  

Computer Science in Six-Tenths of a Second: What Happens After Hitting ENTER in a Google Search - Lance Fortnow

What is computer science? Ask Google or Alexa,…

From  Katie Gentilello May 16th, 2018 20 plays 0  

Ordered and disordered motion in dense active materials - Ludovic Berthier

We discuss how the non-equilibrium driving forces…

From  Katie Gentilello April 30th, 2018 53 plays 0  

Local and global avalanches in sheared granular materials - Aghil Abed Zadeh

We perform a stick-slip experiment to…

From  Katie Gentilello April 30th, 2018 55 plays 0  

Exploiting disorder - Sid Nagel

We are taught to understand solids by considering…

From  Katie Gentilello April 30th, 2018 14 plays 0  

The Topological Character of Smectics - Randy Kamien

Though the systematic use of topology to…

From  Katie Gentilello April 30th, 2018 32 plays 0  

Symmetry Breaking during the Synthesis of Nanoparticles - Younan Xia

Symmetry breaking is a ubiquitous phenomenon that…

From  Katie Gentilello April 30th, 2018 68 plays 0