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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policy makers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us. Please scroll down for recent podcasts.


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Honeybees and biofuel crops

Clint Otto
Clint Otto discusses the impact of land-use changes on beekeepers in the Dakotas. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Louise Docker. October 17, 2016 | Running Time: 6:34

Science Sessions

Recoding an organism

George Church, Matthieu Landon, and Michael Napolitano discuss the genetic replacement of arginine codons in E. coli.
October 3, 2016 | Running Time: 6:09



Interview with 2016 Kavli Prize Winners Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss

Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss describe the detection of gravitational waves with LIGO.
September 12, 2016 | Running Time: 6:38



20th-century excess male mortality

Eileen Crimmins discusses the mortality difference between the sexes and its possible causes.
August 29, 2016 | Running Time: 6:33



Remodelling brain function

Kavli Prize winner Eve Marder discusses flexibility and stability in neural circuits.
August 15, 2016 | Running Time: 6:43



Climate change and irrigation water

Joshua Elliott discusses potential impacts of climate change on water availability for irrigation.
August 1, 2016 | Running Time: 5:40



Modeling disease spread

Andrea Rinaldo explains how cell phone data can be used to model disease spread.
July 18, 2016 | Running Time: 5:23



Nanoparticles for disease detection

Sangeeta Bhatia describes the development of nanoparticles that can aid in detecting cancer and other diseases.
May 16, 2016 | Running Time: 6:02



Origins of mathematical ability

Stanislas Dehaene investigates how certain areas of the brain might be related to mathematical ability.
May 2, 2016 | Running Time: 3:34



Building the James Webb Space Telescope

John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains why and how the James Webb Space Telescope is being built.
April 4, 2016 | Running Time: 5:35



2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners

Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Amanda Woerman

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

July 5, 2016 | Running Time: 6:43

See Also:"Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism"by Stanley B. Prusiner, et al.



Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Anne Case and Angus Deaton

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

July 5, 2016 | Running Time: 6:07

See Also:"Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century"by Anne Case and Angus Deaton



Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov

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

June 20, 2016 | Running Time: 6:05

See Also:"Origami tubes assembled into stiff, yet reconfigurable structures and metamaterials"by Evgueni T. Filipov, Tomohiro Tachi, and Glaucio H. Paulino



Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Mark Jacobson

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

June 20, 2016 | Running Time: 5:29

See Also:"Low-cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of intermittent wind, water, and solar for all purposes"by Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Mary A. Cameron, and Bethany A. Frew



Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir

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

June 6, 2016 | Running Time: 5:51

See Also:"Mimicking the magnetic properties of rare earth elements using superatoms"by Shi-Bo Cheng, Cuneyt Berkdemir, and A. W. Castleman Jr.



Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yatrik Shah

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

June 6, 2016 | Running Time: 5:16

See Also:"Maternal intestinal HIF-2α is necessary for sensing iron demands of lactation in mice"by Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan, Erik R. Anderson, Angelical Martin, Brook Centofanti, and Yatrik M. Shah





Music by T. Johnston

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