Science Spotlights

Science Spotlights

UCSD Creates Center for Brain Activity Mapping: Interview with Director Ralph Greenspan
May 19, 2013

An interview with Ralph Greenspan as the University of California, San Diego announces a new Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM).

 

Mapping Brain Activity: The Promise and Challenge
May 15, 2013

In 2011, neuroscientists and nanoscientists had an idea for revolutionizing our understanding the brain. Now that idea is a national challenge, as President Obama's BRAIN Initiative seeks to decipher the neural code that gives rise to our perceptions and experience.

 

Re-Imagining Neuroscience
May 15, 2013

The focus on properties of single neurons was the driving force of neuroscience in the 1900s and remains so even today. But it has proved to be a limited approach.

 

Spotlight Live: TESS & the Search for Exoplanets
Apr 23, 2013

On May 1, science writer Bruce Lieberman asked your questions about exoplanets and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project in an interviiew with George Ricker, Sara Seager and Joshua Winn.