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Sneak peek at NASA's newest space telescope
NASA Scientist Dominic Benford takes a behind the scenes look at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before it launches in September. L...
Shaping the future of AI in Utah, the United States
From advising the White House on science and technology policy to leading AI strategy at the University of Utah, Dr. Manish Parashar discuss...
Can AI help save democracy?
Beth Simone Noveck discusses how artificial intelligence could strengthen democracy, improve government services and help rebuild public tru...
Musical daydreams and the science of getting lost in sound
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores how music can transport us into vivid inner worlds and what those musical daydreams reveal about the mi...
Listening to the universe: Radio astronomy and the invisible cosmos
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman explores how radio waves reveal the hidden universe and what they can teach us about everything from distant pla...
How AI is accelerating drug discovery
University of Utah chemist Matthew Sigman explains how machine learning is transforming drug discovery. By predicting how molecules form, es...
What AI really means for businesses
Kevin Williams, founder and CEO of Ascend AI Labs, explores how AI has evolved from a future possibility into a powerful opportunity and how...
Google search data paints a hopeful picture of society
Simon Rogers of Google discusses his book, “What We Ask Google,” and what two decades of search data reveal about human curiosity, behavior...
A strange discovery that challenges how galaxies form
Astrophysicist and journalist Maria Luísa Buzzo discusses her Scientific American article on unusual galaxies that appear to lack dark matte...
Why huge numbers matter more than you think
Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses his book, “Huge Numbers,” and how the pursuit of ever-larger numbers has shaped math, science and huma...
Artemis II and the return to the moon
Science journalist Lee Billings of Scientific American discusses Artemis II and what it means for the future of human space exploration.
Searching for cosmic neutrinos deep beneath Antarctic ice
Physicists Vedant Basu and Carsten Rott of the University of Utah discuss the next phase of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the ongoing...
Inside the world of advanced veterinary medicine
Linda Lehmkuhl, CEO of MedVet, discusses her journey from veterinary cardiologist to health care leader and the evolving science of specialt...
One of the richest fossil track sites ever found
Science journalist Humberto Basilio discusses his Scientific American article on a remarkable discovery of thousands of dinosaur footprints...
The secrets of the bees
Entomologist Samuel Ramsey discusses "Secrets of the Bees" and what the hidden lives of bees reveal about ecosystems, agriculture and surviv...
A new perspective on space, time and humanity
Astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett discusses his book, “The Scale of the Universe,” and how understanding the vastness of space and time can res...
AI sounds smart but still doesn't understand
A leading AI researcher, Dr. Melanie Mitchell, explores the gap between pattern recognition and genuine comprehension and how today’s most p...
Turning curiosity into geologic insight
Utah’s dramatic landscape holds clues to ancient lakes, shifting climates, and powerful geologic forces. Geologist Dr. Holly Godsey of the U...
The rise of artificial biological intelligence
Geneticist Adrian Woolfson discusses how artificial intelligence and synthetic genomics are making it possible to design entire genomes from...