Podcasts from ScienceWatch.com

Lynn Smith-Lovin Talks About Homophily in Social Networks

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for April 2011.

Jeffrey Martin on Dynamic Capabilities

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for March 2011.

Professor of Astronomy Xiaohui Fan (Podcast)

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for February 2011.

Professor Sudhir Kumar on Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA4)

1 January 2011 00:08:19

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for January 2011.

Distinguished Professor Satya Atluri

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for December 2010.

Herbert Hirt on Reactive Oxygen Species

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for December 2010.

Koichiro Tamura Talks About MEGA4 Software

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); December 2010.

Kalyanmoy Deb: Current Classic Paper in Engineering Podcast

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for November 2010.

Andre Geim: 2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for November 2010.

Current Classic Paper Authors Scott B. MacKenzie and Philip Podsakoff

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for November 2010.

F. Stuart Chapin III on Arctic Summer Warming

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for October 2010.

Emory University's Ray Dingledine

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for October 2010.

Dr. Patrick S. Schnable Discusses His Work at Iowa State Univ.

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for October 2010.

Citation Superstar Andrew Feinberg

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for September 2010.

Oxford's Anke Hoeffler on Macroeconomics

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for September 2010.

Evolutionary Biologist John P. Huelsenbeck

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); Podcast interview for September 2010.

Eiichiro Komatsu on Five-Year WMAP Results; Featured Podcast

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:51:53 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); August 2010. Eiichiro Komatsu, is Director of the Cosmology Center and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin...

Fabio Pulizzi: Senior Editor at Nature Materials; Podcast Interview

Sun, 1 Aug 2010 15:51:56 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); August 2010. Dr. Fabio Pulizzi has been an academic researcher in the field of solid-state physics who is now a Senior Editor at Nature Materials.

Paul Emsley on the Software Called "Coot" - Podcast

Sat, 1 May 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); May 2010. Paul Emsley is the first CCP4 fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford...

Martin A. Nowak on the Evolution of Cooperation - Podcast

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); April 2010. Martin A. Nowak is Professor of Biology and of Mathematics at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.

Dejian Huang Discuses Antioxidant Capacity; Podcast

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); February 2010. Dejian Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and also Acting Director of the Science and Technology Program at the National University of Singapore.

Rick Holley Discusses Plant Essential Oils - Podcast

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); January 2010. Rick Holley's 2005 FOOD MICROBIOL paper, "Improvement in shelf-life and safety of perishable foods by plant essential oils and smoke antimicrobials," is in a research front map titled Antioxidant Activity of Plant Essential Oils from the field of Agr. & Sci.

Terence G. Langdon on Magnesium Alloy Sheets - Podcast

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); January 2010. Terence G. Langdon is the William E. Leonard Professor of Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

Stephanie Seminara on the GPR54 Gene - Podcast Interview

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); December 2009. She is lead author of the Top Topics paper selection from the field of Neuroscience & Behavior for June 2009: "The GPR54 gene as a regulator of puberty," N. Engl. J. Med.: 349[17]: 1614-27, Oct. 23, 2003, and this paper is included in a Research Front Map from the same period titled "Kisspeptin and the Regulation of Reproduction."

Viswanath Venkatesh on User Acceptance of IT - Podcast Interview

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); December 2009. He is lead author of the Top Topics paper selection from the field of Economics & Business for June 2009: "User acceptance of information technology: Toward a unified view," Mis. Quart. 27[3]: 425-78, Sep. 2003.

Zhenfeng Liu on Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II (Podcast)

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); November 2009. Zhenfeng Liu is currently a research associate and postdoctoral scholar in the Rees lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the California Institute of Technology.

Adam G. Riess on the Hubble Space Telescope (Podcast)

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); November 2009. Adam G. Riess, Prof. of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University and a Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, discusses his 2004 Astrophysical Journal paper, "Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution."

Pengcheng Dai Discusses Superconductors; Podcast

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); October 2009. Pengcheng Dai, discusses his Current Classics Multidisciplinary paper for June 2009: "Magnetic order close to superconductivity in the iron-based layered LaO1-xFxFeAs systems," as published in the journal Nature 453[7197], 899-902, Jun 12 2008.

Alan Thompson's Current Classic Paper on MS; Podcast

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); October 2009. Alan J. Thompson discusses his June 2009 Current Classics article from the field of Neuroscience & Behavior: "Recommended diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: Guidelines from the International Panel on the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis," as published in the journal Annals of Neurology 50[1], 121-27, Jul 2001.

Richard H. Cyburt Discusses Unstable Relic Particles; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:34:15 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); September 2009. Richard H. Cyburt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Janet G. Hering on Arsenic Water Pollution; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:34:12 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); September 2009. Janet G. Hering is Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) in Dübendorf, Switzerland and is the coauthor of the most cited paper listed in the Research Front Map titled, "Arsenic Water Pollution," from Top Topics for April 2009 from the field of Geosciences.

Danny Porath on Molecular Electronics; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); August 2009. Danny Porath is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lead author of the Current Classic Multidisciplinary paper for February 2009.

Dirk Schübeler on Dna and Rna Sequencing; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:08:19 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); August 2009. Dr. Schübeler is the lead author of the most-cited paper listed in the Research Front Map titled, "Dna and Rna Sequencing," from Top Topics for April 2009 from the field of Molecular Biology & Genetics.

Geoffrey Burnstock & Vera Ralevic on Receptors for Purines and Pyrimidines; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:08:57 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); July 2009. Geoffrey Burnstock & Vera Ralevic talk about their Current Classic paper in the field of Pharmacology for February, 2009: "Receptors for purines and pyrimidines," Pharmacol. Rev. 50[3]: 413-92, 1998, in this Podcast interview.

Douglas Hanahan & Robert Weinberg on Cancer Research; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:08:57 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); July 2009. Douglas Hanahan, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, along with coauthor Robert A. Weinberg, a founder of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research at MIT discuss their research on the mechanisms of cancer in this Podcast interview.

Des Higgins on the CLUSTAL_X Windows Interface; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - May 2009. Des Higgins, a Professor of Bioinformatics at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research of University College, Dublin, here discusses his Current Classics (Apr. 2009) paper in Biology & Biochemistry entitled: "The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools," NUCL ACID RES 25[24]: 4876-82, Dec 15th, 1997.

Sakari Uppala; talks about ERA-40; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:08:57 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters); June 2009. Sakari Uppala; discusses his Current Classics Geosciences paper (Apr. 2009): Uppala, SM, et al., "The ERA-40 re-analysis," Quart J Roy Meteorol Soc: 131: 612, 2961-3012, Part B, OCT 2005.

Florencio López-de-Silanes Molina; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Fri, 1 May 2009 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - May 2009. Dr. Florencio López-de-Silanes Molina is a Professor of Finance and Scientific Director of the MSc in Corporate Finance at the EDHEC-Paris School of Economics in France.

Michael Barnett; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:35:38 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - April 2009. Senior physicist and educator Michael Barnett is Head of the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. Here he discussed the "Review of Particle Physics," biennially published book outlining the critical issues in physics that help to shape our understanding of the Universe.

Andre Nel; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Andre Nel is a tenured Professor and practicing allergist/immunologist at UCLA. He runs the Cellular Immunology Activation Laboratory in the Johnson Cancer Center at UCLA. He discusses his highly cited paper: "Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel," (Nel A, Xia T, Mädler L, Li N, Science 311 (5761): 622-27, February 3, 2006).

Kenneth J. Livak; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - From the feature; "Kenneth J. Livak is a Senior Scientific Fellow at the Fluidigm Corporation in San Francisco, whose general area of research is molecular genetics. He discusses his highly cited paper on real-time PCR..." From the ScienceWatch.com January 2009 update.

David Pendlebury; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this a Podcast from ScienceFriday.com (produced by: Charles Bergquist), David Pendlebury, a citation analyst, with the Scientific Business of Thomson-Reuters takes a look at some of the most-cited scientific research of the year and discusses why those oft-cited papers were significant. He also explains what journal articles have risen to the ranks of the 'modern classics,' becoming some of the most-cited of all time. Original broadcast: December 12, 2008. From the ScienceWatch.com December 2008 update.

Laurie Garrett; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - From the Podcast (recorded July '08): "...the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and author of an article in the journal Foreign Affairs, entitled: “The Challenge of Global Health, ” in January 2007, discusses the impact of turmoil in the energy & financial..." From the ScienceWatch.com December 2008 update.

John Apostolakis & Makoto Asai; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - From the Podcast: "The authors discuss their 2003 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A paper: "GEANT4-a simulation toolkit." Geant4 is a complex system of detector description and simulation tools. The toolkit simulates the passage of elementary..." From the ScienceWatch.com December 2008 update.

Theoharis Theoharides; Podcast

Thomson Reuters — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 00:00:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Theoharis Theoharides; Podcast"...is Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the Tufts University. Here he discusses the mandatory role played by neurogenic inflammation in the development of a number of diseases. From the ScienceWatch.com November 2008 update.

Marcella Calfon - from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Podcast

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 09:57:37 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Marcella Calfon is the lead author of a citation classic article on the protein IRE 1. Here she discusses her career and research in the field of cardiovascular physiology. She has been named a Current Classics scientist (Multi.) for Apr. 2008. From the ScienceWatch.com October 9, 2008 update.

Rafael Irizarry - Professor at Johns Hopkins; Podcast

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:40:41 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Rafael Irizarry is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Here he discusses his work on the development of quantitative methods and software for genomics and epigenomics. He has been named a Current Classics scientist (Math.) for Apr. 2008. Also view a commentary from a past New Hot Paper feature. From the ScienceWatch.com September 22, 2008 update.

Ron Kessler & Jim Hudson; Podcast

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:40:41 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Ron Kessler, Professor of Healthcare Policy & Jim Hudson, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, discuss binge eating disorder and the link to obesity. This Podcast accompanies their New Hot Paper commentary on the same topic (May 2008). From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Berkeley's David Teece; Podcast

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:40:41 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - David Teece is Professor in the Haas School of Business at UC, Berkeley and also Director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization. Here he discusses his concept of “applied industrial organization.” Teece has been named a Current Classics scientist (Eco. & Bus.) for Apr. 2008. Podcast added August 20, 2008. View all Podcasts.

Olivier Gascuel, from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Podcast

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 06:01:11 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Olivier Gascuel leads a research group at LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France. Here he discusses his work in bioinformatics and comparative genomics. Gascuel has been named a Current Classics scientist (Env./Eco.) for Aug. 2008, and has provided commentary in a Fast Breaking Paper in the same field. Podcast added August 9, 2008. View all Podcasts.

Christopher Lipinski, Scientific Advisor to Melior Discovery, Inc., Exton, PA; Podcast

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:04:06 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Christopher Lipinski In this Podcast, Christopher Lipinski discusses his 1997 article from Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, "Experimental and Computational Approaches to Estimate Solubility and Permeability in Drug Discovery and Development Settings." Also, read a New Hot Paper comment from January 2006. In addition he also appeared as a Current Classics scientist (Pha. & Tox.) for Feb. & Apr. 2008 (Podcast added Aug. 1, 2008). View all Podcasts.

Zbyszek Otwinowski on Mathematical Crystallography; Podcast

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:21:34 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Zbyszek Otwinowski discusses mathematical crystallography, the primary method used to determine three-dimensional structures of large biological molecules, namely proteins and nucleic acids and the principal tool for studying single crystals, x-ray diffraction. View all Podcasts.

Russel Reiter on Melatonin and its Metabolites; Podcast

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:47:39 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Russel J. Reiter, Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, discusses the uniqueness of the antioxidant melatonin. Reiter has also commented on his Fast Breaking Paper about this subject from February 2008. View all Podcasts.

Anthony Westerling; increased wildfire activity; Podcast

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:43:42 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Anthony Westerling discusses climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions and climate change impact assessments. Westerling has a corresponding Fast Breaking Paper comment from Feb. 2008 regarding this research. View all Podcasts.

Martin Bland, Health Statistics Professor; Podcast

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:43:42 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Martin Bland is a Professor of Health Statistics at the University of York in the UK. He’s an applied statistician who here describes the design and analysis of measurement studies as outlined in an article which he coauthored with Douglas Altman. View all Podcasts.

Sir John Pendry, Physics Professor; Podcast

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:43:42 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Professor Sir John Pendry, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics at The Imperial College, London, discusses his work with magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena. Podcast, June 2008.

Sara Burt from University of Utrecht; Podcast; Podcast

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:43:42 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Sara Burt; discusses her current work on the antibacterial properties of essential oils obtained from plants. Podcast, June 2008.

Peidong Yang talks about semiconductor nanowires; Podcast

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:59:14 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Peidong Yang is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Here he discusses his lab’s interdisciplinary research in semiconductor nanowires. Yang is a Current Classics scientist (Mat. Sci.) from Apr. 2008 (Podcast added May 14, 2008).

Robert Sampson; Department Chair of Harvard University’s Department of Sociology; Podcast

Fri, 9 May 2008 06:38:47 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and Department Chair of Harvard University’s Department of Sociology, talks about his interest in criminology and urban sociology and the linkage of urban neighborhoods with violence (Podcast added May 10, 2008).

Geoffrey M. Hodgson from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK; Podcast

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:02:04 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Geoffrey M. Hodgson is a Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK; here he discusses core Darwinian principles for the analysis of social and economic evolution. Read his New Hot Paper comment from Jan. 2008 ((Podcast added May '08). View all Podcasts.

Younan Xia is the James M. McKelvey Professor for Advanced Materials; Podcast

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:02:04 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - The Xia group at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is pursuing cutting-edge research in three major frontiers: nanotechnology, materials chemistry, and photonic devices (Podcast added April 1, 2008). View all Podcasts.

Queen’s University's Paula Reimer; Podcast

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:02:04 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Dr. Paula J. Reimer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP) and Director of the 14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (Podcast added April 1, 2008). View all Podcasts.

Ibrahim Dincer, from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology; Podcast

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:02:04 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Professor Dincer discusses how the use of exergy combines the conservation of mass and conservation of energy principles together with the second law of thermodynamics for the design, analysis, and performance improvement of energy systems. (Podcast added December '07). View all Podcasts.

Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Harvard University; Podcast

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:02:05 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast, he discusses 21 centimeter cosmology and the theoretical framework for a new frontier in observational cosmology. (Podcast added December '07). View all Podcasts.

Barry L. Wanner, Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University; Podcast

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:27:36 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast, Prof. Wanner discusses "One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli K-12 using PCR products", (Datsenko, KA;Wanner, BL, PROC NAT ACAD SCI USA, 97[12], 6640-45, JUN 2000). (Podcast added October '07). View all Podcasts.

A Podcast with Mark Newman, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan; Podcast

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:27:37 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Here Prof. Newman discusses his 2003 SIAM Review paper entitled, "The structure and function of complex networks. (Podcast added October '07). View all Podcasts.

James Cleeman, Coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program at the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute at NIH; Podcast

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:27:37 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Dr. Cleeman discusses his article entitled "Executive Summary of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults," (J. I. Cleeman, et al., JAMA-J AM MED ASSN, 285[19]: 2486-97, May 2001). (Podcast added October '07). View all Podcasts.

David Stevenson is the Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Modelling at The University of Edinburgh; Podcast

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:54:25 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast, he discusses the global distribution of tropospheric ozone and methane, and how sensitive these gases are to human influences. (Podcast added September '07). View all Podcasts.

Sudhir Kuman, professor of biology at ASU of Arizona State University; Podcast

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:54:29 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Sudhir Kumaris is a renowned expert in the field of evolutionary bioinformatics. In this Podcast, he talks about the development of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software, which has made useful methods of comparative sequence analysis accessible to the scientific community. (Podcast added September '07). View all Podcasts.

Jacques Banchereau talks about dendritic cells and the control of immunity; Podcast

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:54:34 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Jacques Banchereau is director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas. Dr. Banchereau focuses his research on manipulating dendritic cells, often called the "sentinels" of the immune system. (Podcast added September '07). View all Podcasts.

Dennis Selkoe talks about the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease; Podcast

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:33:01 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Dennis Selkoe is the Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. Here he discusses his career-long research studies on understanding Alzheimer's disease. (Podcast added August '07)View all Podcasts.

David Spergel talks about the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite; Podcast

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:32:07 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - David Spergel is a theoretical astrophysicist in the Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Here he discusses the implications for cosmology and how what has been learned from WMAP satellite data relates to other astronomical observations. (Podcast added August '07) View all Podcasts.

George Kunos of NIAAA on the role of endocannabinoids in neuroendocrine regulation; Podcast

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - George Kunos, director of NIAAA's Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, discusses how endocannabinoids interact with the hormone leptin. (Podcast added August '07) View all Podcasts.

Brian Byrne from University of New England talks about behavioral genetics; Podcast

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:08:25 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Brian Byrne, Research Professor of Psychology at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, discusses how genetic and environmental influences on processes important for learning to read and spell are already at work in children prior to the start of formal schooling. (Podcast added July '07) View all Podcasts.

Wolfram Schultz from Cambridge investigates how the brain processes reward function (ESI Special Topics Podcast)

Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:06:49 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Prof. Wolfram Schultz of the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, discusses the neuromechanisms involved in going after a reward and how the brain processes reward function. (Podcast added May '07) View all Podcasts.

Hiroki Kato demonstrates the functional role of RIG-I and MDA5 as RNA virus sensors; Podcast

Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:05:38 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Hiroki Kato of the Akira Lab at Osaka University discusses the functional role of two RNA helicases, RIG-I and MDA5 as RNA virus sensors.(Podcast added Apr. '07) View all Podcasts.

Adam Kuper on indigenous people and political successes; Podcast

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:25:18 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University, discusses the ideology of the indigenous peoples’ movement, a global social movement that has booked remarkable political successes in the past decade. (Podcast added Apr. '07) View all Podcasts.

University of Aarhus's Inge Fomsgaard protecting plants; Podcast

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:25:18 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Inge Fomsgaard, Professor of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Aarhus, discusses the possible exploitation of natural defense chemicals for protecting agricultural plants against weeds, insects, pathogens, and other pests. (Podcast added Mar. '07) View all Podcasts.

The University of Exeter's Peter Cox on humanity's role in climate change; Podcast

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:27:36 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Professor Peter Cox of the University of Exeter talks about the research that stemmed from his 2000 Nature paper, "Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model." (Podcast added Jan. '07) View all Podcasts.

Ralph Hingson from the NIH talks about early Alcohol Abuse intervention; Podcast

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:34:49 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast audio commentary, Ralph Hingson, Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at NIH, discusses several interventions that can reduce college drinking and related harm. (Podcast added Jan. '07) View all Podcasts.

Isaac Bentwich from Rosetta Genomics on microRNAs; Podcast

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:34:51 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast audio commentary, Isaac Bentwich, founder of Rosetta Genomics, Ltd., discusses the therapeutic potential of human microRNAs. (Podcast added Nov. '06) View all Podcasts.

St. Jude Children's William E. Evans on childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Podcast

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:34:50 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - In this Podcast audio commentary, Dr. William E. Evans of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, talks about the collaborative effort his hospital has undertaken with Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam to identify gene expression patterns in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that are different in drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cancers. (Podcast added Nov. '06) View all Podcasts.

University of Frankfurt's Mohamed El Naschie; Podcast

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:34:48 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - University of Frankfurt's Mohamed El Naschie talks about the potentially positive social and political effects of new research across various disciplines. (Podcast added Nov. '06) View all Podcasts.

Bruce Russett, our top Armed Conflict researcher, on the democratization process; Podcast

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:25:18 -0500

SCIENCEWATCH.COM (Thomson Reuters) - Yale University's Dr. Bruce Russett talks about ways in which to promote democracy in peaceful manner. (Podcast added Dec. '06) View all Podcasts.