PNAS Science Sessions
Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers 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.
Latest episodes
Jun 11, 2019 • 5min
Maize domestication in Mexico
Researchers Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada and Miguel Vallebueno discuss 5,000-year-old partially domesticated maize.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Future of infectious disease research
Charles Rice and Robert Landford discuss the future of hepatitis C research without chimpanzees.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Honeybees and biofuel crops
Clint Otto discusses the impact of land-use changes on beekeepers in the Dakotas.
Jun 11, 2019 • 6min
Recoding an organism
George Church, Matthieu Landon, and Michael Napolitano discuss the genetic replacement of arginine codons in E. coli.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Interview with 2016 Kavli Prize Winners Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss
Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss describe the detection of gravitational waves with LIGO.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
20th-century excess male mortality
Eileen Crimmins discusses the mortality difference between the sexes and its possible causes.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Remodelling brain function
Kavli Prize winner Eve Marder discusses flexibility and stability in neural circuits.
Jun 11, 2019 • 6min
Climate change and irrigation water
Joshua Elliott discusses potential impacts of climate change on water availability for irrigation.
Jun 11, 2019 • 5min
Modeling disease spread
Andrea Rinaldo explains how cell phone data can be used to model disease spread.
Jun 11, 2019 • 6min
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.
