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Night Science

Night Science


Night Science

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Length:
58 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday. 
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 58 episodes

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George Church and shooting for the stars

George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, leads a large research ...

36 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science

Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz directs research labs at both CalTech in the US and the ...

39 minutes
Apr 15, 2024

Isaac Newton and a new kind of science

Night Science – coming up with novel ways to interpret the physical world – is as old a...

26 minutes
Apr 01, 2024

Bo Xia and a tale of tails

Bo Xia is a Junior Fellow at Harvard and a Principal Investigator at the Broad Institut...

31 minutes
Feb 28, 2024

Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity

Prof. Todd Golub, the Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has made impo...

35 minutes
Feb 26, 2024

Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories

Sean Carroll is a world-renowned scientist, author, educator, and an Oscar-nominated fi...

39 minutes
Feb 12, 2024

Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz of impossible problems

Nigel Goldenfeld is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in Physics at the Universi...

39 minutes
Jan 29, 2024

It takes two to think

Despite the variety of creative approaches practiced by different scientists, one tried...

23 minutes
Jan 15, 2024

Rich White on living on the edge cases

Rich White studies cancer as a professor at Oxford University. Rich is not only a brill...

43 minutes
Jan 08, 2024

Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science

Carolyn Bertozzi is a Professor at Stanford University. In 2022, she was awarded the No...

40 minutes
Dec 25, 2023