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Ruth Penfold-Mounce: ‘We’re seeing death as a form of entertainment rather than being disturbed by what we’re witnessing’

Sociologist Ruth Penfold-Mounce about death awareness events, ethical challenges that we face and how violent death in media affects our behavior

How nanorobots are used in medicine?

Professor of Physical Chemistry Peer Fischer on nanorobots, why are they so hard to work on and what might be their future application in medicine

Karl Friston: “The hallmark of a good scientist is asking questions that no-one has asked before”

Neuroscientist Karl Friston on the development of the free energy principle, what remains unknown about the brain and how to become successful in academia

“My dream is that I will drive myself out of business as a scientist and will get computers to do science by themselves”

Professor Ilya Nemenman on machine learning, the laws of biology, and the quest for a 'robot-scientist'

“In principle, one can make an ideal conducting channel along a designed path by just scratching the surface”

Physicist Markus Morgenstern on weak topological insulators, 2D materials, and spin pumping

Xingjie Ni: “We made a device that has total control over the amplitude and the phase of the light”

Electrical engineer Xingjie Ni on the 'invisibility cloak', metasurfaces, and nanoantennas that can control light

Heon Sang Lee: “The e-skin is sensitive enough to detect one hair strand and acoustic sounds”

Chemical engineer Heon Sang Lee on nanocomposites, e-skins, and ferroelectricity

“It is the only technology that can generate electricity directly from the breakdown of waste that we throw in the bin”

Biotechnologist Ioannis Ieropoulos on microbial fuel cells, waste treatment, and the ‘Pee-Power’ urinal

Federico Capasso: “You can design the optical properties of surfaces, so you can design new phenomena”

Harvard professor Frederico Capasso on flat lenses, Cherenkov effect, and inverse method

What is the definition of a robot?

Robotics expert Mel Siegel on the features that a machine must have to be called a robot, previous studies, and the future of the field

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