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Communicating Science: A Conversation with Hillary Rosner
May 21, 2011

Hillary Rosner's award-winning feature article, “One Tough Sucker” (High Country News), reveals how the razorback sucker -- one of four endangered fishes of the mainstream Colorado River – is at the heart of a struggle over the management of fish species in the river.

 

Communicating Science: A Conversation with Science Writer Steve Silberman
May 21, 2011

Steve Silberman, a 2010 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winner, discusses his feature article, “The Placebo Problem” – a story that reveals how dummy pills called placebos are impacting the development and marketing of new medications by pharmaceutical companies.

 

A New Job For Telescopes - Making Solar Energy
Jan 4, 2011

J. Roger Angel is one of the three 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics who share the prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design -- allowing us to glimpse ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the Universe. In a video presentation, Angel discusses how this research relates to solar energy application.

 

Scaling Up: The Future of Nanoscience
Jan 3, 2011

In advance of the Kavli Futures Symposium, “Plenty of Room in the Middle: Nanoscience – The Next 50 Years,” four participants and extraordinary researchers -- David Awschalom, Angela Belcher, Don Eigler and Michael Roukes -- join in a roundtable discussion of the future of nanoscience fifty years after Richard Feynman conceived the field.