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Getting the Most Out of Getting Older with Dr. Aditi Gurkar

Sep 11, 2024

Alan Lowe interviews Dr. Aditi Gurkar, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Aging Institute. Dr. Gurkar discusses her transition from medical doctor to becoming a leading researcher in aging, driven by her grandfather’s cancer diagnosis. She explains the critical difference between chronological...

AMSE Science Report with guest John Butterworth

Sep 3, 2024

Noted physicist John Butterworth discusses the world of particle physics, including the findings made in recent years regarding the Higgs Boson. Here’s Jon explaining what the Higgs Boson...

AMSE Science Report with guest Kate Winkler Dawson

Sep 3, 2024

Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI is an amazing resource. The Sherlock she is talking about is the incredible Oscar Heinrich who utilized for the first time many of the forensic tools and methods we know today. Kate noted that when Heinrich first...

AMSE Science Report with guest author Andy Weir

Sep 3, 2024

Noted sci-fi writer, Andy Weir, author of books such as The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis discusses which science fiction writers had influenced him the most.

AMSE Science Report with Author Andrew Knoll

Sep 3, 2024

Andrew Knoll talks about his terrific book, A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters. To start I asked Andy to explain how we know our planet came into existence about 4.6 billion years ago. He explained how that is calculated using meteorites and an element we know a lot about in Oak Ridge,...