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Dr. John B. Goodenough: Lithium-ion Batteries
Episode 57
From laptops to cell phones to electric cars, our modern world runs on lithium-ion batteries. Aarati tells the story of one of the scientists who won…
22 hours ago
Dr. Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita: Mr. Tornado
Episode 56
On June 24, 1975, Eastern Airlines 66 mysteriously crashed when attempting to land at JFK airport. Authorities called in Mr. Tornado to investigate. …
2 weeks ago
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Anti-Radiation Activist (Part II)
Episode 55
After retirement, Dr. Alice Stewart continued to raise awareness of how radiation could cause cancer, immunodeficiencies, and other possible health d…
4 weeks ago
Dr. Alice Stewart: The Radiation Epidemiologist (Part I)
Episode 54
In this two part series, Aarati tells the story of the epidemiologist who realized there was a link between prenatal x-rays and childhood cancer. She…
1 month, 1 week ago
Interview with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo: The Stress Geneticist
Episode 53
Stress affects men and women differently. We sit down with Kiara Rodríguez-Acevedo, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania to ask her ho…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Vivien Thomas: The Heart (Non-) Surgeon
Episode 52
Happy Black History month! In this episode, Aarati tells the unlikely story of a carpenter turned lab technician. Vivien Thomas created a blood shunt…
2 months, 1 week ago
Interview with Andrew Robertson: The Ant Scientist
Episode 51
Ants may not be very big, but we have a lot to learn from these tiny creatures! We sit down with Andrew Robertson, a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech an…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dr. Dmitri Mendeleev: Organizing the Elements
Episode 50
It's episode 50! Aarati tells the story of the temperamental Russian chemist who figured out a way to organize all the known (and unknown) elements i…
3 months, 1 week ago
Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Disordered Physicist
Episode 49
Why do certain things never happen in reverse? A shattered glass does not spontaneously reform, a spray of perfume doesn't concentrate back into it's…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dr. Rudolf Clausius: The Laws of Thermodynamics
Episode 48
Part II of our December Thermodynamics Extravaganza! Aarati tells the story of the German scientist who formally stated that 1) energy is conserved a…
4 months ago