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From Gadgets to Galaxies: Conference Reports Feb 10, 2014

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Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference

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Fighting Cancer with Physics Jan 27, 2014

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Rakesh K. Jain, director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology in the radiation oncology department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talks about his article in the February issue of Scientific American about interfering with extracellular matrix as a way to increase the efficacy of cancer therapy

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The Man Who Wasn't Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace on the Centenary of His Death Nov 07, 2013

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Alfred Russel Wallace biographer Peter Raby of the University of Cambridge talks about the great naturalist and co-creator of the theory of evolution by natural selection on the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death

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Perv-View: Jesse Bering's New Book <i>PERV</i> Oct 29, 2013

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Psychologist Jesse Bering talks about his latest book PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us.

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Karplus, Levitt and Warshel Oct 09, 2013

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for applying both quantum and classical physics to develop computer models of chemical systems that show details of chemical reactions

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Englert and Higgs Oct 08, 2013

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson, experimentally confirmed to exist in 2012

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and Südhof Oct 07, 2013

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells

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Alan Alda Communicates Science Sep 30, 2013

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At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Alan Alda about communicating science to the general public.

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Ira Flatow and the Teachable Moment Sep 20, 2013

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At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Science Friday host Ira Flatow about the "teachable moment in science and culture"

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Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (The Real Kind) Part 2 Aug 29, 2013

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Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself, which looks at the science of the origin of life and at the emerging science of synthetic biology.

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