Measuring Chirality
Physicist John Doyle on ibuprophen's capacity to relief pain, orientation of dipole moments, and 'handedness' ...
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deepTech
February 10, 2014
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genetics
February 7, 2014
Artificial DNA
Geneticist Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii on replacing DNA with other molecules, peptide nucleic acid, and new types ...
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mathematics
February 6, 2014
Mathematics of Signal Processing
Mathematician Gilbert Strang on the difference between cosine and wavelet functions, audio compression, and th...
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biology
February 5, 2014
Genomics of Long-lived Mammals
Biologist Vadim Gladyshev on UCP1, p16 proteins, the Brandt's bat and the naked mole rat phenomenon
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physics
February 4, 2014
Shock Electrodialysis
Chemical engineer Martin Z. Bazant on understanding dynamics at intermediate scale, "deionization shocks", and...
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Impact
February 3, 2014
Teaching Online
Physicist Walter Lewin on massive open online courses, OpenCourseWare at MIT, and how it all started from "hel...
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physics
January 31, 2014
Electron – Positron Annihilation
Physicist Frank Taylor on quarks, muons, and the Standard Model
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linguistics
January 30, 2014
Heritage Language
Harvard Prof. Maria Polinsky on receptive bilingualism, the "First In Last Out" hypothesis, and what people fo...
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AI
January 29, 2014
Slow and Stopped Light
Harvard Prof. Mikhail Lukin on the quantum mechanical switch, improving the lifetime of our memory, and quantu...
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medicine
January 28, 2014
Principles of Antibiotic Discovery
Microbiologist Kim Lewis on multidrug resistance pump, prodrugs, and Metronidazole
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neuroscience
January 27, 2014
Theorem of Human Unpredictability
MIT Professor Seth Lloyd on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, the Cretan liar paradox, and the problem of free ...
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Biotech
January 24, 2014
Reverse Engineering in Biology
Harvard Research Scientist Leonid Peshkin on cell models, experiments in silico, and drug discovery
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