The New York Academy of Sciences

Women Who Code | A Catalyst for Innovation: Philanthropy in Science and Tech

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Brooke Grindlinger, Chief Scientific Officer for The New York Academy of Sciences, discusses the role that philanthropy can play in supporting sci...

Ethics In Pediatric Research

13 Dec 2022

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This podcast highlights discussions from the Ethical Considerations in Research for Pediatric Populations symposium presented by the New York Academy ...

The Intersection of Conflicts of Interest and Healthcare

24 Jun 2021

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The Intersection of Conflicts of Interest and Healthcare by The New York Academy of Sciences

Big Data: Balancing Privacy and Innovation

25 Feb 2019

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Often cited as the "4th Industrial Revolution" big data has the potential to transform health and healthcare by drawing medical conclusions from new a...

Finding Better Treatments for Children with Cancer

15 Oct 2018

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Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States and Europe. Despite prevailing increases in...

Discovering New Liver Disease Treatments

29 Jun 2018

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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is set to become the most common cause of liver transplant in the coming decade. Although almost one-third of adults...

Deciphering ZIKA

11 Apr 2018

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In 2016, the WHO declared the Zika virus a global medical emergency when, after six decades of dormancy, the virus arrived in the Americas. After scie...

Proof of Concept Centers: Changing Weather

13 Mar 2018

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In this episode, we continue to look at some of the fascinating and innovative work that researchers are doing in New York State's Proof of Concept Ce...

Inspiring Stories from the Future of STEM

18 Jan 2018

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We hear all the time that building a robust future for STEM relies on engaging diverse groups of young people in STEM fields today. The Academy's Glob...

Rethinking Climate Change

05 Jan 2018

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Climate change may be controversial in the political realm, but for three Blavatnik Awards Scholars, all leading experts in environmental studies, the...

Proof of Concept Centers: Small Materials Solving Big Problems

07 Dec 2017

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How can we do more without causing less strain on the environment? In this podcast we continue our discussion with New York entrepreneurs participatin...

Reevaluating Clinical Trial Design

20 Oct 2017

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Clinical trials to evaluate new drugs are typically built around one design, the randomized controlled trial, but this method has come under scrutiny ...

Proof of Concept Centers: Tackling Industrial Waste

25 Sep 2017

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The management and removal of industrial waste is a concern that faces companies and governments around the world. In this podcast you'll hear from en...

Working Together for People, Planet, and Prosperity

21 Aug 2017

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When the UN announced its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, it was clear that the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) w...

Proof of Concept Centers: Meeting the Market

09 Mar 2017

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Proof of Concept Centers allow emerging technologists to try out their ideas, work with mentors, and develop marketable products. One of the key chall...

Finding the Nutritional Key to Longevity

16 Feb 2017

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You see the headlines all the time linking nutrition to health and aging, but it's not so easy figuring out where the science is behind them. This pod...

A Cross-Fertilization of Ideas: 200 Years of the New York Academy of Sciences

26 Jan 2017

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In this special podcast, learn about the stories that shaped the Academy's 200 year history. From the emergence of the Academy on a bustling street in...

The Face of Science: Mentors and Connections

22 Dec 2016

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The Academy's After School STEM Mentoring program improves science education and brings science out of the lab and into the community by placing early...

A Quantum State of Mind

08 Dec 2016

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Are physicists on a path to upend some of the time-tested fundamental theories of physics? This podcast explores the interplay between quantum theory ...

The Face of Science: Teaching Teachers

17 Nov 2016

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So many of our misconceptions about science come from where we first encountered them the classroom. How can we do a better job of teaching science, b...

Are We Alone in the Universe?

27 Oct 2016

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According to Enrico Fermi, there's a high probability of extraterrestrial life, but we haven't found any yet. Why is that? Listen in as top scientists...

The Face of Science: Myths and Misconceptions

05 Oct 2016

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Even in the 21st century, there's a significant percentage of people who deeply mistrust science and scientists. Why? And what can we do about it? The...

The Rise of Human Consciousness

14 Sep 2016

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Advances in physical sciences, biology, and neuroscience have dramatically enhanced our knowledge of the human species. But can physical sciences solv...

Proof of Concept Centers: From Proof to Product

25 Aug 2016

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Research only turns into a real-world solution if it becomes something you can buy and use, but there are a lot of challenges to taking a great idea f...

The Emerging Science of Complexity

04 Aug 2016

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Today, more than ever, we can better understand just how complex our world is, from social groups to economic markets to neurons in the brain and our ...

Understanding the Biological Basis of Pediatric Cancer

19 Jul 2016

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Advances in genomic medicine indicate that pediatric cancers may be quite different from their adult counterparts. Hear from experts on why this might...

Where Physics and Philosophy Intersect

23 Jun 2016

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Listen in to a discussion with writer Jim Holt, philosophers David Z. Albert and Hans Halvorson, and science writer Kate Becker about the realms where...

Bioethics Meets R&D: The Ethics of Pre-approval Access

02 Jun 2016

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The Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine and the Academy bring together patients, regulators, manufacturers, journalists, and experts ...

Is There a Limit to Human Knowledge?

12 May 2016

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Featuring cosmologist Neil Weiner, string theorist Eva Silverstein, and physicist Vijay Balasubramanian, with moderation from philosopher of science J...

Little Beans, Big Opportunities

21 Apr 2016

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For 2016, the International Year of Pulses, our Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science is looking at the many opportunities provided by pulses edible...

Building an Evidence Base for Effective Obesity Policy

02 Feb 2016

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We explore research methodologies for building an evidence base for nutrition and obesity policy that are emerging across disciplines. Well-informe...

Improving Clinical Trials through Mobile Technology

20 Jan 2016

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Mobile technology is emerging as a powerful tool for transforming the way clinical research is conducted now and in the future. Acquisition of real...

Proof of Concept Centers: Energy Technology

26 Oct 2015

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It's easier to find people to invest in a great new tech product if you can show that it will be profitable relatively quickly. Unfortunately, that's ...

Bringing It All Together: A Systems Approach to Nutrition

11 Sep 2015

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Understanding nutrition's impact on health requires an intricate knowledge of all the different systems within the human body. Learn how a systems app...

Can We Prevent Dementia Through Our Diet?

01 Jun 2015

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A recent conference held at the Academy asked a downright outrageous question: Can dementia be prevented by making changes to your diet? In this podca...

Dementia Decoded: Moving Forward

21 May 2015

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In the final episode of our Dementia Decoded series, we look at some of the innovative approaches that are being taken, and how they hold out new hope...

Dementia Decoded: Fighting Forgetting

14 May 2015

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In this episode of the Dementia Decoded series, we'll look at new and innovative ways people around the world are addressing this problem, and offer s...

Dementia Decoded: Decisions, Negotiations, and Choices

07 May 2015

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In the third episode of our Dementia Decoded series, we look at the current slate of treatment options available to people living with neurodegenerati...

Dementia Decoded: Plaques and Tangles

30 Apr 2015

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In the second episode of our Dementia Decoded series, we look at the current state of knowledge about the basic physiology of Alzheimer's, and how sci...

Dementia Decoded: A Special Illness

23 Apr 2015

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The first episode of our new five-part Dementia Decoded podcast series looks at what Alzheimer's is, how it differs from other forms of Dementia, and ...

Curing Human Diseases: Targeting the Lysosome

11 Feb 2015

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Leading scientists discuss the latest breakthroughs in lysosome biology and what they mean for treating Batten disease, and more common conditions suc...

Food as Medicine: Nutrition and Global Health

30 Oct 2014

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In the second of a two-part series, experts look at the links between health and nutrition. They examine everything from how nutrition impacts hospita...

Micronutrients: Supplementation, Fortification, and Beyond

23 Oct 2014

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In this first of a two-part series, experts from various sectors explore the available options to reduce "hidden hunger" micronutrient deficiencies in...

Clean Energy Inspired by Nature: Artificial Leaves

17 Aug 2014

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A young chemist discusses his goal of producing usable clean energy by artificially mimicking the process of photosynthesis. As a Ph.D. student at ...

Making Connections with Conservation Biology

15 Aug 2014

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Three budding biologists and their teacher discuss the vital work of conservation biology and how students are making important contributions to the f...

Fighting Food Waste with Creativity

13 Aug 2014

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Designer Josh Treuhaft discusses the issue of food waste and his creative approach to combating the problem. A whopping 40% of the food produced in...

Bronx River Alliance: Restoring Nature in the City

02 Aug 2014

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By inviting the public to enjoy the Bronx River, the Bronx River Alliance is creating sustainability enthusiasts and improving the local ecosystem for...

The Synapse Project: Inspiring the Future of Neuroscience

15 Jul 2014

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High school student Grace Greenwald connects her peers with world class neuroscientists and mentorship. At the age of 15, Grace came up against a l...

Alzheimer's Disease: Prospects for a Cure

30 Jun 2014

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A diverse panel of leading experts discusses innovative efforts to develop an effective treatment for Alzheimer's Disease. The search for a treatme...

Nutrition and Early Childhood Development

27 Jun 2014

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Experts discuss the merits of integrating nutrition and early childhood development interventions to nurture the physical and psychological health of ...

The Problem with Protein

29 May 2014

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Protein is one of the most important nutrients in our diet, but providing an adequate and equitable supply of it to people around the world remains a ...

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Activating the Agenda

08 May 2014

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The third podcast in our series on the Research Agenda for Nutrition Science focuses on implementation. Creating the agenda was a great first step,...

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Mobilizing the Community

28 Apr 2014

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Part two of our podcast series on the nutrition research agenda addresses the importance, as well as the challenge, of tackling global nutrition needs...

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Why and How?

24 Apr 2014

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The first of two podcasts on the development of a global agenda for nutrition research. What, how and why we eat is a broad and complex issue touch...

Engineering Sustainable Futures

13 Feb 2014

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Engineering students in the Projects for Underserved Communities program at UT Austin are proving you're never too young to make a difference by putti...

Wizard and Orc Debate Climate Science and Middle Earth Warming

16 Jan 2014

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Tolkien wizard Radagast the Brown, a.k.a. climate scientist Dr. Dan Lunt, faces an angry Uruk-hai climate change denialist in a "debate" about the val...

Hats Off to Bacteria!

12 Dec 2013

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In this excerpted coverage from our live event, a panel of experts discusses our relationship with our microbiota from research and medical perspectiv...

Your Brain: The Final Frontier

21 Nov 2013

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Blavatnik Award winning scientist Dr. Jonathan Fisher discusses the power of various visualization techniques in researching and educating about the b...

Can We Feed the Planet?

12 Oct 2013

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Author Alan Weisman shares insights from his latest book, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Can we feed a human population head...

Making (and Learning) History!

28 Sep 2013

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A historian and a young scientist discuss the rewards and importance of learning about the history of science. Dr. Carol Moberg, historian of scien...

The Science of Moral Decisions

14 Sep 2013

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Social psychologist Dr. Piercarlo Valdesolo discusses his work studying moral decision-making processes in the lab. Dr. Piercarlo Valdesolo, Direct...

Art and Evidence: Scientific Images

23 Aug 2013

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Scientific images are often beautiful, captivating both for their aesthetic value and the concepts they represent. Dr. Mark Siddall, curator of the...

Greed: Hormones and Moral Behavior

26 Jul 2013

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As part of our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series, Dr. Paul Zak discusses his work studying the relation of hormones to human behavior. Specific...

A Thought for Food: Eating Animals

12 Jul 2013

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The final installment of our step-by-step analysis of the cheeseburger culminates in a question that’s both very simple and tremendously complex sho...

A Thought for Food: The Best Thing Ever

05 Jul 2013

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In this installment of A Thought for Food's consideration of the cheeseburger, we analyze the king of side dishes, the French fry. This episode fea...

A Thought for Food: Veg Everlasting

28 Jun 2013

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The fourth installment of our systematic breakdown of a cheeseburger deals with ketchup and pickles, two attempts to give vegetables the power to defy...

A Thought for Food: Bad Milk Gone Good

20 Jun 2013

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For the third installment of our dissection of the humble cheeseburger, A Thought for Food considers a Paleolithic super food that’s still popular w...

A Thought for Food: Going to Seed

14 Jun 2013

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The second installment of A Thought for Food’s systematic analysis of America's sandwich, the cheeseburger, looks at bread one of the strangest and ...

A Thought for Food: Meet the Meat

07 Jun 2013

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How did the hamburger become a staple American food? A Thought for Food considers the science and history of the key ingredient, beef. Season 2 of ...

Prioritizing Health Disparities in Medical Education to Improve Care

31 May 2013

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Experts discuss how medical schools can reduce health disparities by promoting more diversity in healthcare professions, equipping doctors with tools ...

Envy: The Cutthroat Side of Science

16 May 2013

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Experts discuss the pressures that may lead scientists to misrepresent data and hinder the self-correcting mechanisms of science. This is excerpted...

Neuroscience, Prediction, and Law

26 Apr 2013

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Professor Owen Jones, Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, and Dr. Kent Kiehl, professor of neuroscience and...

Diagnosing Urban Design

10 Apr 2013

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In this follow-up interview to our “Sloth: Is Your City Making You Fat?” event, Dr. Mariela Alfonzo, a research fellow in urban and regional plann...

Digital Healthcare Technology Part 2: Take One App a Day with Food

20 Mar 2013

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Dr. Robert Kaplan, Director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and Dr. Barbara Barry, research sc...

Digital Healthcare Technology Part 1: Virtual Patients, AI Doctors, and Beyond

14 Mar 2013

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Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, Dr. Martin Kohn, Chief Medical Scientist for Health Care Delivery at IBM R...

Medicine’s Missing Half: How Withholding Clinical Trials Degrades the Evidence Base

01 Mar 2013

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Dr. Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, discusses the pervasive bias in reporting clinical trial...

Lab Bench Meets Federal Bench: The Supreme Court and Stem Cell Research

15 Feb 2013

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The Supreme Court recently refused to hear a case challenging federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Dr. John Murray, a lawyer and genetici...

Dinosaur Sex!

29 Jan 2013

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Brian Switek, a panelist at our upcoming Love and Lust in the Animal Kingdom event and author of My Beloved Brontosaurus, discusses what we know about...

The Science of Sleep and Dreams

14 Jan 2013

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David Randall, author of the book Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, MIT neuroscientist Matt Wilson, PhD, and Harvard instructor o...

Prideful Predictions?

21 Dec 2012

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This excerpt from our Pride: Flying Cars and Other Broken Promises event features biologist and professor Stuart Firestein considering pride and scien...

Wrath Goes Viral: Part 2

05 Dec 2012

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In Part 2 of our podcast coverage of Wrath Goes Viral, the panelists discuss factors involved in preventing outbreaks from reaching pandemic scales. T...

Wrath Goes Viral: Part 1

28 Nov 2012

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This is Part 1 of our podcast coverage of the event Wrath Goes Viral, the first in our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. In this first section...

Dustyn's Robots

13 Nov 2012

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In this podcast, Dustyn Roberts discusses her work on the cutting edge of engineering. Her Sample Manipulation System, part of the Curiosity Mars Scie...

Fractals: Art, Science, Math and Culture

19 Oct 2012

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In this podcast, art historian Nina Samuel, biologists Brian Enquist and James Brown, and ethnomathematician Ron Eglash discuss the prevalence and pow...

Learning By Play

19 Aug 2012

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What does play have to do with learning? More than you may think. Today's kids are getting less playtime than previous generations, and that may have ...

A Thought for Food: How Do We Know What We Know?

07 Aug 2012

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Nutrition is notoriously tricky to get a handle on, with conflicting reports and unsubstantiated fads all over the place. So why can't science get to ...

A Thought for Food: Rock Steady

23 Jul 2012

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Salt is one of the most important and versatile ingredients in foods around the world. We like it, we need it, but are we getting too much of it these...

The Science of Local Food

12 Jul 2012

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Locavorism is all the rage these days, but does science back it up? Is local food more nutritious? Can it improve our environment? And does it even ta...

A Thought for Food: Sugar in the Morning...

27 Jun 2012

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The battle of wills to resist the last cupcake isn't the only one being waged over sugar. In fact, sugar or fructose to be more precise is one of the ...

Getting Behind the Resveratrol Hype

12 Jun 2012

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A few years ago, Resveratrol a compound found in red wine and dark chocolate, among other foods made a splash in the news as an anti-aging wonder and ...

A Thought for Food: Fat Lot of Good

04 Jun 2012

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Trans fat, saturated fat, hydrogenated oil such terms are plastered on food labels across the country. But what do any of them really mean? Find out a...

A Thought for Food: Fire in Your Belly

09 May 2012

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Though fat and sugar are often seen as the bad guys in the world of nutrients, the truth is our body needs them to survive. Begin to explore those mos...

The Mighty Oysters of New York Harbor

03 May 2012

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Oysters once more abundant in New York Harbor than anywhere else in the world fell victim to over-harvesting and pollution. But today, thanks to the e...

Junior Roboticists Take on a Food Challenge

10 Apr 2012

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This March, 17 middle-school teams descended on the Academy for the 2nd Annual FIRST LEGO League Robotics Scrimmage. Find out what went down this year...

Unraveling the Obesity-Cancer Connection

26 Mar 2012

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You've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: the U.S. has a big problem with obesity. But did you know that there are demonstrated links be...

Science Stories Ep. 2: Trials & Terrors of High School Bio

16 Mar 2012

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Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as "Bunhead," in part two of o...

Science Stories Ep. 1: Have Lobster, Will Travel

08 Mar 2012

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Kelly Vaughan isn't your average middle school science teacher. She's willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wranglin...

A Thought for Food: Tiny Amounts

27 Feb 2012

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Scurvy was once the scourge of the seven seas, but it turned out to have a simple solution: Vitamin C. In the second installment of our nutrition seri...

A Thought for Food: My Dinner with My Dinner

13 Feb 2012

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How do we know what's really good for us in an age of information overload? The first installment in our new podcast series on nutrition follows the j...

Matchmaking in the Digital Age

18 Jan 2012

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As internet dating gains popularity, millions of singles are turning over large amounts of personal data to computers in the hopes that an algorithm w...