Carbon Dioxide at Scale: Working Fast for an Equitable Future
The 2022 Carbon Sequestration Symposium at California State University, Bakersfield, focuses on engaging the community, industry, policymake...
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20 of 64 episodesHealth in Space: Developing New Tools for the Trip to Mars
Limited medical equipment on space craft makes medical care in space a real challenge. Ordinary problems must be dealt with, as well as prob...
Return to Apollo: Geologic Evolution of a Young Moon
New state-of-the-art chronologic measurements of rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts reveal that many of the historical age determin...
Planetary Defense: Avoiding a Cosmic Catastrophe
Our planet has been continually bombarded by asteroids since its formation, 4.5 billion years ago. While the frequency of large impacts has...
Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier: One Byte at a Time
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) is a special structure in the body that helps to protect the brain from unwanted toxins and germs. Unfortunate...
3D Bioprinted Model for Metastatic Brain Tumors
Cancer becomes highly dangerous when it spreads from its original site to a different vital organ. These secondary tumors called metastases...
In the Mood: Deciphering Complex Brain Signals
The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, and 100 trillion connections between those neurons. Despite our inability to imag...
Giving Your Brain a Voice: Engineering Sensors That Listen to Brain Cells
The human brain is composed of billions of cells that communicate through chemical and electrical signals. LLNL microelectrodes can interfac...
Biomolecular Action Movies: Flash Imaging with X-ray Lasers
Proteins are nature’s machines, performing tasks from transforming sunlight into useable energy to binding oxygen for transport through the...
Improving Human Health One Atom at a Time - Biomedical Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a sensitive mass spectrometric method for detecting and quantifying rare long-lived isotopes with hig...
The Evolution of Computing Technologies: From Following Instructions to Learning
How often do you wonder about supercomputers and computers that "think" like humans? Supercomputers have been used to model complex scientif...
Laser-Plasma Accelerators: Riding the Wave to the Next Generation X-Ray Light Sources
Particle accelerators have been revolutionizing discoveries in science, medicine, industry and national security for over a century. An esti...
Building Biologically Inspired Nano-Bots
Find out about both synthetic and molecular biology approaches to produce small nano-machines (nano-bots). The main building blocks for thes...
3D Printing: From Imagination to Realization
Revolutionary changes to materials and structures are now possible with 3D printing, bringing concepts that were previously only imagined in...
Reconstructing a Rabies Epidemic: Byte by Byte
A vast majority of the newly discovered human pathogens are viruses that have jumped to humans from an animal host ("cross-species transmiss...
Forensic Science in Crisis: How Proteins Can Help
In the last decade, the scientific foundations of a number of traditional forensic methods have come under increasing criticism by the scien...
Behold Livermorium: A Quest for New Elements
Everything we can see and touch is made up of chemical elements as illustrated on the Periodic Table of Elements. The heaviest, naturally oc...
From Basketball and Medicine to Climate: Understanding the World through Statistics
Statistics is the science of data: measuring and assessing uncertainty and more generally, learning from data. Since scientific, technical,...
Harnessing Fusion: Creating a Sun on Earth
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the world's largest and most powerful laser sys...
iChip: Human Physiology in the Palm of Your Hand
Despite being diminutive in size, iChips have the potential to make big impacts on drug development and medical treatment testing. Lawrence...