Science Spotlights

2014 Annual Meeting Communicating Science Seminar
Mar 06, 2014

Seminar from the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting, shares science communication expertise in working with different types of content, across a range of formats, for various audiences. The session was separated into three videos, with each video relating to engagement with one of these audiences:  journalists, social media and public events.

Birds Do It. Bees Do It.
Feb 18, 2014

Physicists at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics introduce flocking and swarming paradigms to high school teachers

Spotlight Live: Stellar Explosions and Death Dances
Feb 05, 2014

Norbert Schulz and Nicola Omodei discuss the recent detection of a dying star igniting the most powerful blast ever seen – something so powerful it radiated energy that was 500 million times that of visible light and how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections
Jan 29, 2014

Celebrating its 35th anniversary, KITP is a pioneering scientific research facility where theorists in physics and allied fields congregate for sustained periods of time to work together intensely on a broad range of questions arising from investigations at the leading edges of science.

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