Neuroscience Research Highlights
Fruit flies can help us understand the impact of social isolation, and other highlights from the Kavli Institutes in Neuroscience
Sep 16, 2021
Discover more about our work, the research we support and the people who make it happen.
Astrophysics Research Highlights
The changing of the seasons is a familiar experience here on Earth and, as it turns out, plenty of other elsewheres, too, with astrophysical and cosmological significance
Sep 13, 2021
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research highlights from the Kavli Institutes in Nanoscience
Sep 10, 2021
Neuroscience Profile
Graeme Davis wants to maximize the self-corrective powers within everyone’s brain to resist neurodegenerative diseases
Sep 09, 2021
Astrophysics Profile
Part 4 of our 'Looking Ahead to Webb' series centers on efforts to understand the workings of the famous Phoenix cluster, one of the most puzzling galaxy groupings known
Aug 30, 2021
Nanoscience Profile
In a time of drought, Abraham Duncan Stroock is looking for new ways to understand how plants use water
Aug 25, 2021
Podcasts
42:06
A scientist fluent in the atomic properties of materials like glass and steel and wood, Anna Ploszajski wanted the hands-on experience of how craftspeople use them. The result is her book, Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making.Published Wednesday, September 01, 2021 7:07 PM
39:20
You may not realize it, but you are subtly revising and updating your memories all the time – to keep them, as Daphna Shohamy puts it, “nimble,” and so better able to help you chart both the present and the future.Published Wednesday, August 25, 2021 5:17 PM
35:49
As a young Italian physics student, Caterina Vernieri was lucky enough to join the team hunting for the most elusive and highly-prized fundamental particle of all – the Higgs boson – just as it was found. She is now leading a team building the detector that may reveal the Higgs’ secrets.Published Thursday, August 19, 2021 7:06 PM
40:45
Having helped develop and install a camera to gaze the heavens with unprecedented resolution, Marcelle Soares Santos was part of the team that used the camera to capture an unprecedented record of a massive cosmic explosion.Published Wednesday, August 11, 2021 7:05 PM
42:38
An unknown but very clever cockatoo in Sydney Australia invented a novel way of raiding trash bins. Teaming with citizen scientists, Lucy Aplin and her team tracked how cockatoos throughout the city soon picked up the same trick.Published Wednesday, August 04, 2021 7:04 PM
40:44
Tiny satellites, catching a ride to space, can improve weather forecasting and even help spot planets outside the solar system.Published Wednesday, July 28, 2021 7:03 PM
41:17
With ultra-thin fibers and minute magnetic particles, Polina Anikeeva and her team are developing new ways to tap into the brain. Her ultimate goal is to understand and treat brain diseases like Parkinson’s.Published Wednesday, July 21, 2021 7:02 PM
41:42
Dangling from a balloon the size of a football stadium miles above the South Pole, a payload built by astrophysicist Abby Vieregg peers down at the ice looking for messenger particles from the most energetic places in the universe.Published Wednesday, July 14, 2021 7:01 PM
43:28
She not only cares passionately about the large and ferocious animals she studies. Rae Wynn-Grant also has a passion and a talent for getting the rest of us to care about them too.Published Wednesday, July 07, 2021 7:01 PM