Science Spotlights

The Brain on Trial

Dec 7, 2011

The Kavli Foundation holds a roundtable to explore how advances in neuroscience are posing serious challenges for the judicial system, as well as possible solutions for the treatment of criminals. Participants in the discussion are Alan Leshner, Jay Giedd and Martha Farah.

One Promising Puzzle Piece for Confirming Dark Matter Now Seems Unlikely Fit, Researchers Find

Nov 23, 2011

New research adds doubt that a prominent European astrophysics experiment may have found evidence of dark matter. In an interview, Stanford's Stefan Funk and Justin Vandenbroucke talk about their findings, as well as how they tricked a telescope into searching for particles it wasn't designed to detect.

Disturbing the Nanosphere

Oct 17, 2011

Cornell University researchers, including KIC’s J.C. Séamus Davis and post-doctoral fellow Mohammad Hamidian, deliberately create atomic-level disorder in order to probe the workings of heavy fermion compounds. In an interview, Hamidian discusses how this work, and a new tool created at Cornell, may be a significant step toward revolutionizing 21st century technology.

Diseases In A Dish: Modeling Mental Disorders

Oct 10, 2011

Using skin cells from patients with mental disorders, scientists are creating brain cells that are now providing extraordinary insights into afflictions like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.