Nicotine addiction and relapse
Inés Ibañez-Tallon discusses how nicotine and neurons conspire to hamper efforts to quit smoking.
10 Jun 20195min
Where breast cancer meets brain size
Inder Verma and colleagues describe how a breast cancer-associated gene might be implicated in brain size control in mammals.
10 Jun 20196min
Supernova chemistry
Paul Dunk discusses the chemistry of carbon in space following a supernova.
10 Jun 20195min
The postdoctoral problem
NAS member Gregory Petsko discusses efforts to assess the US postdoctoral workforce.
10 Jun 20196min
Understanding citrus greening
Ariena van Bruggen and J. Glenn Morris, Jr. discuss their work on citrus greening, a disease that is threatening the global citrus industry.
10 Jun 20195min
Genetic screening for adults
C. Thomas Caskey and Amy McGuire discuss whole-genome genetic screening for adult-onset diseases.
10 Jun 20195min
Synthesizing fuels and chemicals from CO2
James Liao talks about engineering microorganisms to synthesize fuels and chemicals from CO2.
10 Jun 20195min
Speech perception and language acquisition in infants
Janet Werker describes how exposure to speech and environmental factors can affect language acquisition by infants.
10 Jun 20194min
