Science Clear+Vivid Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Anna Ploszajski: When Science Meets Craft
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A scientist fluent in the atomic properties of materials like glass and steel and wood, Anna Ploszajski wanted the hands-on experience of how craftspe...
Daphna Shohamy: Your Creative Memory
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You may not realize it, but you are subtly revising and updating your memories all the time – to keep them, as Daphna Shohamy puts it, “ni...
Caterina Vernieri: Seeing What Can’t be Seen
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a young Italian physics student, Caterina Vernieri was lucky enough to join the team hunting for the most elusive and highly-prized fundamental par...
Marcelle Soares Santos: Capturing a Cosmic Explosion
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having helped develop and install a camera to gaze the heavens with unprecedented resolution, Marcelle Soares Santos was part of the team that used th...
Lucy Aplin: Cockatoos have culture too
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An unknown but very clever cockatoo in Sydney Australia invented a novel way of raiding trash bins. Teaming with citizen scientists, Lucy Aplin and he...
Kerri Cahoy: Hitchhiking to Space
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tiny satellites, catching a ride to space, can improve weather forecasting and even help spot planets outside the solar system.Support the show: https...
Polina Anikeeva: Communing with the Brain
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With ultra-thin fibers and minute magnetic particles, Polina Anikeeva and her team are developing new ways to tap into the brain. Her ultimate goal is...
Abigail Vieregg: Seeking Cosmic Messengers
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dangling from a balloon the size of a football stadium miles above the South Pole, a payload built by astrophysicist Abby Vieregg peers down at the ic...
Rae Wynn-Grant: Carnivore Champion
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She not only cares passionately about the large and ferocious animals she studies. Rae Wynn-Grant also has a passion and a talent for getting the rest...
Maya Fishbach: When Black Holes Chirp
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The mightiest events in the entire universe – when black holes collide – create ripples in space-time now being detected by the most sensi...
Beronda Montgomery: Lessons from Plants
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beronda Montgomery suggests we humans have a lot to learn from the surprising ways plants connect, communicate and collaborate.Support the show: https...
Science Clear+Vivid - Season 3 Trailer
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alan and Science Clear+Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd preview the new season.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvividSee...
Alex Schnell: Do Cuttlefish Ponder?
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not often that cuttlefish go viral, but that’s what happened when Alex Schnell published the results of her experiments showing that ...
Alysson Muotri: A Brain Begins – in a Dish
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By coaxing skin cells to become brain cells in a dish, Alysson Muotri hopes to learn how early brain development can go wrong in conditions like autis...
Edward Chang: A Brain Speaks
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During brain surgery, Dr. Edward Chang can record the brain’s electrical activity while the patient speaks – then reproduce the spoken wor...
Shriya Srinivasan: Making prosthetic limbs feel real
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While still working on her PhD Shriya Srinivasan invented a way that allows someone with a missing limb to move and feel their prosthesis as natu...
How Your Mind Creates Language
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ev Fedorenko is in awe of her 3 1/2 year old daughter’s ability to soak up language – and as a neuroscientist, Ev’s goal is to one d...
Researching Her Own Disease
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Audrey Winkelsas has a rare genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. While it limits her physical abilities, it has helped ignite her passion f...
The Brothers Shenderov
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brothers Eugene and Kevin Shenderov escaped with their parents from the Soviet Union shortly after being exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl explo...
There’s More to Everything than Meets the Eye
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a Black female professor, Chanda Prescod Weinstein is a rarity in her field. And she relishes the fact that everything that we see and experience i...
Something in the Way You Move
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Husband and wife Eiman Azim and Sharona Ben-Haim believe we should be very proud of ourselves for doing things like buttoning a button or typing on a ...
A Shot in the Arm for Us All
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Right before Alan got his second shot of the Moderna vaccine, he talked with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who led the science team at the NIH that helped de...
CRISPR versus COVID
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg are young researchers who were smart enough, persistent enough and lucky enough to find themselves – whil...
TRAILER: Science Clear+Vivid Season 2 / Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda Season 12
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A look ahead at the people we have in the new seasons of both C+V and SC+V, starting next week.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid...
Michael Drake: Higher Ed in the Time of Covid
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Drake, newly installed as the president of the University of California, talks about the challenges in the age of Covid of running an institut...
Simon Johnson: Jump-Starting America
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, now an MIT professor, Simon Johnson urges increased investment in basic research as a way &...
Rebecca Blank: The Power of the Publics
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rebecca Blank argues that public universities like hers not only produce over two-thirds of the PhD...
Bob Conn: When it’s Wise to be Risky
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Conn, the president of the Kavli Foundation, argues that philanthropies play a vital role in funding scientific research because they can take mor...
Freeman Hrabowski: The University That Multiplies Genius
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County for almost 30 years, Freeman Hrabowski has transformed a sleepy, mainly white, commuter schoo...
Marcia McNutt: When Science Matters Now
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When she was head of the US Geological Survey, Marcia McNutt led the federal response to the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Me...
Sethuraman Panchanathan: The Scientific Spirit
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Dr. Panch,” as he’s known, is the new Director of the National Science Foundation. He supervises over $8 billion of federal investm...
Shirley Tilghman: The 75 Year-Old Idea We Need Now
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shirley Tilghman finds inspiration in the report delivered to President Roosevelt 75 years ago. It was called Science: The Endless Frontier, and it sp...
Harvey Fineberg: Ready When Needed
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccines that could save us from Covid19 are being developed with unprecedented speed. Harvey Fineberg argues this would have been impossible without ...
Robbert Dijkgraaf: Opening Doors to the Unknown
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Einstein spent his last years at the famed Institute for Advanced Study. Robbert Dijkgraaf, who heads the Institute now, marvels at how work like Eins...
Science Clear+Vivid: Trailer
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With support from The Kavli Foundation, Clear+Vivid presents this special series on the power of basic scientific research – from the pure to th...