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Moons of Jupiter

Physicist Michele Dougherty on the exploration of Jupiter’s moons, Europa’s ice crust and the internal ocean on Ganymede

Genetic Diversity in Humans

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Visual Perspective Taking

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Laws of Growth and Natural Selection

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Language of Politics

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Sugar-based Treatment for Persisting Bacterial Infection

Biomedical engineer James Collins on bacterial persisters, mammalian metabolism, and antibiotics

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Quantizing Gravity

Theoretical physicist Xavier Bekaert on quantum interaction, coupling constant, and properties of gravity

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African dams contribute to over 1 million malaria cases every year

Dams seem to contribute significantly to malaria risk in sub-Saharan Africa

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Dialetheic Solutions to the Liar Paradox

Philosopher Stephen Read on non-classical logic, Curry's paradox, and modus ponens

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Quantum Noise Limit in Gravitational-Wave Detector

MIT Prof. Nergis Mavalvala on Poisson distributed noise sources, squeezed states of light, and optical cavities

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Radiation and Land Surface

Geographer Mathias Disney on the Sun's spectrum, albedo and why plants and animals are sensitive to a very specific part of the overall spectrum

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Music and Brain

Psychologist Lauren Stewart on congenital amusia, earworms and how music affects mental and physical health

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Resilience and Reliability of the Internet

Computer scientist David Clark on the user's role in ensuring internet resilience, the policy of communications service providers, and technological problems the industry now faces

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Drug Metabolism

Biochemist Ian Wilson on individual receptiveness to drugs, pharmacokinetics, and in vitro technologies of drug discovery

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Mechanism Design Theory

Economist Eric Maskin on privatization of the radio spectrum, history of the field, and mistakes in decision making