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Jan 21, 2026

From Oak Ridge, Tennessee, AMSEcast host Alan Lowe sits down with geologist and paleontologist Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group and author of How to Read a Rock. Their conversation explores how rocks and minerals form and what they reveal about Earth’s history, from the rock cycle and...


Jan 9, 2026

What if I told you that, no matter where you are or what you are doing, about 100 trillion neutrinos are passing through your body every second?  Well, you might first respond, as I did, by asking what is a neutrino, and then wondering why we seem to have no awareness at all of their presence.  I mean, if were one or...


Jan 6, 2026

Robert Hettich who serves as the Corporate Fellow and Leader of the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group of the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Lab, and as a Joint Faculty Member in the Microbiology Department at the University of Tennessee.  Bob is an internationally recognized leader in the field of...