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Nancy Nersessian's research focuses on how the cognitive and learning practices of scientists and engineers lead to creative and innovative outcomes.
For proteins in each and every cell of your body, it's always rush hour as they travel from the hinterlands of the cytoplasm into the nucleus — the cell's downtown.
Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of Radiolab, public radio's Peabody Award-winning program devoted to wonder, discovery and big ideas.
Brigham Young engineer Christopher Mattson answers the ScienceLives 10 Questions.
Chris Mattson works with Designs for Development, building water wells that help remote villages develop partnerships and economic stability.
Tom Statler is an expert on galaxies as well as solar system dynamics, especially near-Earth asteroids.
Tom Statler is an expert on galaxies as well as solar system dynamics, especially near-Earth asteroids.
Alan Feinerman is researching ways to conserve energy with inexpensive vacuum insulation panels.
Elizabeth Harbron's lab is made up mostly undergraduate females, helping to patch a "leaky pipeline" for women in the sciences.
The app rewards exercise with discounts and free items such as energy bars, all natural groceries and workout DVDs
Sarah (Sally) Otto is a MacArthur "genius" award winner who uses models and yeast to improve our understanding of the evolutionary process.
Sarah (Sally) Otto is a MacArthur "genius" award winner who uses models and yeast to improve our understanding of the evolutionary process.
Marc Hillmyer is working to make plastics sustainable, by developing alternatives to today's oil-based plastics.
Vikram Kapila turned the iPod touch and iPhone into remote controls for robots.
Wind tunnel studies reveal how hummingbird feathers produce such varied sounds during their courtship displays.
Although initially dismissed by Einstein as an idea "of little value," gravitation lensing has grown into a powerful extrasolar planet detection method able to find planets that are invisible to more conventional methods.
MacArthur "genius" fellow, Shwetak Patel, is working to make sensors to relay information from appliances, with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life.
MacArthur "genius" fellow, Shwetak Patel, is working to make sensors to relay information from appliances, with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life.
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