The Saudi royal taking personalized medicine to the next level
Her Royal Highness Dr. Maha bint Mishari AlSaud, Vice President of External Relations and Advancement at Alfaisal University, speaks to Nicholas Demille as part of a special Sciencetown series on pers...
27 Touko 202017min
Meet the professor building the drugs of the future
Professor Nicholas Peppas, the Cockrell Family Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, speaks with Ben Stevens as part of a special Sciencetown series on personalized medicine. Peppas, who...
27 Touko 202022min
Bonus: The science and big data driving F1 forward
We’re coming to you from Yas Island in Abu Dhabi for the penultimate race of the 2019 Formula One season. We’re down on the paddock to hear from the McLaren race team and some of the scientists workin...
27 Touko 202021min
7. What building the next Silicon Valley really involves
Startups, and the disruptive tech they espouse, promise jobs, economic growth, and smarter societies. With wild promise and profitability at stake, building the next Silicon Valley has become the purs...
27 Touko 202045min
Bonus: Here’s what extreme computing will do for you
Supercomputing, extreme computing, high-performance computing—regardless of what you call it—it underpins much of the cutting-edge scientific research being done today.In this bonus episode, we follow...
27 Touko 202041min
6. How to prepare for the new AI age
Computers are a ubiquitous part of life for more than half of humanity, as is the internet that links us all together. As Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning make their way into realms of pop...
27 Touko 202043min
5. How the combustion engine of the future will look
Ending use of the humble combustion engine, while an easy answer, has proven much more difficult to implement. In truth, we all love the luxuries that the combustion engines of the world bring, even i...
27 Touko 202049min
4. Is growing food in the desert really possible?
Join us as we explore some of the latest research into desert agriculture and why on earth anybody thinks it's a good idea. Scorching sun, infertile soil and lack of water are but a few of the challen...
27 Touko 202038min
