PNAS Science Sessions
PNAS
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.
Episodes
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Self-driving cars
Jeff Schneider explains how self-driving cars use machine learning to learn the rules of the road.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Science for the general public
Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
Interview with 2017 Breakthrough Prize winner Steve Elledge
Steve Elledge discusses how cells sense and respond to damage to their DNA.
Jun 11, 2019 • 7min
DNA folding by loop extrusion
Erez Lieberman Aiden discusses a model of how DNA folds to fit inside a cell nucleus.
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.
