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PNAS Science Sessions
Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of sc...
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Swamp lights and bat sight
Swamp lights and bat sight
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as...
Enzyme linked with brain evolution
Implications of a mutation in modern humans
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, an...
Where primates evolved
Where primates evolved
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as the...
How climate change alters lake oxygen levels
Climate change and lake oxygenation
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policy...
Unpacking the unreturnable squash nick shot
The physics of the squash nick shot
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policy...
North America's oldest pterosaur fossil
A pterosaur and its ecosystem at the end of the Triassic
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academ...
Exploring the origins of a glacial relict seal
The postglacial history of the Saimaa ringed seal
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy membe...
Conservation of the Eastern Black Rhinoceros
Managing eastern black rhinoceros populations with genetic studies
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Natio...
Rescuing the northern white rhino
A reference genome aids efforts to rescue the northern white rhinoceros
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers,...
Water and the possibility of life on Mars
Water and the possibility of life on Mars
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and...
Machine learning and climate risk adaptation
Using reinforcement learning to plan for an uncertain climate future
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Nat...
Parsing the Knowledge of London cabbies
Insights in route planning from London taxi drivers
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy mem...
Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior
Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Acade...
Modeling extreme heat waves
Modeling extreme heat waves
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers a...
Estimating the social cost of carbon
Reconsidering the social cost of carbon
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and po...
How hula hoops stay aloft
How hula hoops stay aloft
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as...
Climate effects and shifting Arctic coastlines
Erosion, subsidence, and sea level rise on Arctic coastlines
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Ac...
Movies, neurons, and AI
How brains and AI systems process moving images
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members...
Sustainability of plant-based meat alternatives
Sustainability of plant-based meat alternatives
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members...
Plumeworld ocean and snowball Earth
How Snowball Earth melted
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as...
The curious case of the comb jelly
Reverse development in a comb jelly
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policy...
Air pollution and economic mobility
Air pollution and upward mobility
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policyma...
Long-term impact of wildfire smoke pollution
Nationwide effects of smoke-related air pollution
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy membe...
Indigenous communities and subsistence whale hunting
Indigenous hunting and beluga populations
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and...
Perceiving musical boundaries
The neuroscience of music perception
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and polic...
How python hearts grow and shrink
How python hearts grow and shrink
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policyma...
Neighborhood travel and racial segregation
How people travel to racially different neighborhoods
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy m...
Ocean voyages and disease spread
How pathogen stowaways traversed the oceans
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, an...
Why twisters target the United States
Why “Tornado Alley” is unique to North America
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members,...
Creating culturally inclusive schools
Creating culturally inclusive school environments
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy membe...
How redlining affects biodiversity
How redlining affects biodiversity
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policym...
Animal's eye view of the ocean
Animal’s eye view of the ocean
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymaker...
Inequitable exposure to wildfire smoke
Inequitable wildfire smoke exposure in California
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy membe...
Gentrification and biodiversity
Biodiversity and gentrification
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymake...
School enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic
School enrollment during COVID-19
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policyma...
Emotional power of live music
Emotional power of live music
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers...
Adapting to poor air quality
Adapting to poor air quality
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers...
Measuring Poverty
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to...
How a small fish makes big sounds
How a small fish makes big sounds
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policyma...
History of flight in dinosaurs
Dinosaur feathers hint at flight history
Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and p...