Science Night
A place for scientists to tell their story.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 28 in total of Science Night with the tag “biology”.
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Eclipses, Amphibians, and the Future of Fusion
April 10th, 2024 | Season 3 | 35 mins 58 secs
amphibians, astronomy, biology, eclipse, engineering, evolution, fusion, fusion energy, kstar, mammals, nuclear engineering, nuclear fusion, pppl, scicomm, science, solar eclipse, stellerator, tokamak
Fusion energy week is happening during the first week of May! To get ready, Dr. Diem is talking about a new design that may improve the Stellarator design and a new record for the KSTAR. We're also talking about our experience during the 2024 solar eclipse, and we have a strange new milk that will be sure to haunt your dreams.
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Don't Call It A Comeback: The Season 4 Premier
September 27th, 2023 | Season 3 | 32 mins 34 secs
biology, engineering, physics, robotics, scicomm, science, soft robotics, space, space travel
Science Night returns with a new season, a new logo, but the same great scicomm!!! This week, we have three stories that don't appear to have an obvious application to our lives, but who knows what the future will bring. We're talking about projects that are created and funded for the sake of discovering something about our world...its science for science's sake. So join us as we talk about soft robots that get even softer as they melt into a puddle of toxic goo, a nano bead that can write on water, and why our squishy human bodies aren't quite ready to explore the stars.
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Fun & Games: A GenCon Special
August 30th, 2023 | Season 3 | 40 mins 3 secs
5 years to mars, anatomy, astronomy, biology, board games, flux, gaming, gencon, holotype, paleontology, physics, scicomm, science
This week, we're bringing you our favorite moments from the best 4 days of gaming, GENCON!!!! We played games, made new friends, and spent lots of time walking the convention floor learning about games and the people who play them. Be sure to check out the page for this episode on our website for links to all the games we mention.
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Fins on Film: A Sharkfest Special
July 12th, 2023 | Season 3 | 19 mins 28 secs
biology, cape cod, climate change, disney, disney plus, disney+, diving, film making, great white sharks, marine biology, nat geo, national geographic, photojournalism, seals, sharkfest, sharks, underwater photography, white sharks
This week, Jason is talking to Brian Skerry, a photojournalist and film producer that specializes in underwater wildlife, about his new documentary "The Return of the White Shark! A film that you can see RIGHT NOW on Disney+ as part of National Geographic's Sharkfest!!!!!
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The Curious Case of the Painted Turtle-Remastered
June 21st, 2023 | Season 3 | 41 mins 31 secs
biology, color, ecology, evolution, pigmentation, scicomm, science, turtles
It seems like turtles are popping up all over the place so we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes. This week we look back to our conversation with Dr.Beth Reinke from a few years ago. We talk about why painted turtles are so colorful, but also how species use color in nature.
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We Have Ignition
December 28th, 2022 | Season 3 | 24 mins 16 secs
biology, fusion, fusion energy, miss america, national ignition facility, provora, scicomm, science
This week, we're closing out 2022 with a scicomm roundup. First, we're talking about the new hot supergroup that's taking the Tree of Life by storm, next, we crown new science royalty, and finally, we ignite a conversation about the future of energy. Also, be sure to check out our social media accounts so you don't miss our top 5 countdown of our most downloaded episodes in 2022.
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Informal Education with Dr. Kelly Salmon & Alyson Michael
October 12th, 2022 | Season 3 | 51 mins 42 secs
biology, chaos theory, chemistry, climate change, creation, droplets, education, evolution, mathematics, narwhal, origins, scicomm, science, stem
This week we're talking to two instructors from the New Hampshire Academy of Science about informal STEM education and inspiring the future of science. In the news, we're talking about dynamic droplets and chaotic cetaceans.
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Gen Con: The Science of SciFi
August 24th, 2022 | Season 3 | 41 mins 42 secs
ai, biology, epidemiology, evolution, fallout, fusion, games, gaming, mass effect, microbiology, parasites, physics, scicomm, science, scifi, ttrpg, video games
This week we have another special episode from our recent trip to Gen Con in Indianapolis, IN. This time, its some of the audio from both nights of the Science of SciFi panel presented by Indiana Sciences. First up, the Science Night crew talks about the science of the Mass Effect and Fallout series. In Night two, Dr. Bill Sullivan, Matt Sauers, and Rufus Cochran talk about parasites, physics-based traps, and AI. For the full audio and video from both nights make sure you head over to indianasciences.org.
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Biology Beyond the Binary with Camryn Martin
June 22nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 49 mins 35 secs
asteroids, biology, engineering, gender, geology, green energy, hayabusa 2, nature, ocean currents, pride, scicomm, science, sexuality, space, super worms
This week we're talking to the host of the Nature is Gay podcast Camryn Martin. We talk about mating behaviors in nature, and how species after species don't fit in the "binary". In the news, we're covering terrific turbines, wonderful worms, and ancient asteroids.
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Open Science with Prof. Lee Berger
June 8th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
anthropology, biology, dinosaurs, evolution, metabolism, paleontology, scicomm, science, sharks
This week we're extremely excited to bring you our conversation with the incredible Prof. Lee Berger. He shares stories from his work, and we talk about his efforts to include new people in his discipline and make his science more accessible to everyone. In the news, we talk about a sharcano, and dynamic dinos.