Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease
Animal-borne diseases have ruled the news cycle recently—from Zika and Ebola to SARS and MERS. However, little is known about the spread of these diseases in their animal hosts. More perplexing, the m...
10 Feb 201619min
Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures
Across the United States, record quantities of corn and soybeans have been harvested in recent years. However, according Dr. David Gustafson of the International Life Sciences Institute Research Found...
13 Jan 201622min
Episode #7: Contact with Nature May Mean More Social Cohesion, Less Crime
Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of contact with nature for human well-being. However, despite strong trends toward greater urbanization and declining green space, little is known about...
12 Jan 201620min
Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration
The integration of data from two or more domains is required for addressing many fundamental scientific questions and understanding how to mitigate challenges affecting humanity and our planet. In Mar...
25 Nov 201513min
Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty
Eighty-one percent of US science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) university faculty members are men. The relative dearth of women in the field is a long-recognized problem—but it's one that ...
11 Nov 201517min
Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems
"Forest restoration" is a common conservation theme, often promoted as a means of repairing degraded landscapes and boosting carbon storage. But when the planting areas are poorly chosen, these initia...
14 Okt 201518min
Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon
Human-caused fires have the potential to hugely alter tropical forests—and the world at large. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Balch, of the University of Colorado–Boulder. She discusses a lo...
9 Sep 201520min
Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere
Extracellular vesicles (EVs; article here) are one of the biggest stories in biology. These tiny "packets" are released by cells and constitute a previously misunderstood means of intracellular commun...
12 Aug 201521min
