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  • The Higgs Boson: What Are We Looking For?

    Finding the Higgs Boson is no easy task. Like most subatomic particles, it cannot be directly observed. But as CERN physicist Monica Dunford explains, we can instead try to look...

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  • A Chance Meeting with a Science Bard

    Last night, I careened down the the subway stairs at 116th and Broadway only to run into WSF and NPR/Radiolab favorite Robert Krulwich at the bottom. He had in tow a be-spectacled young man with tight blonde curls and an easy smile.

  • Face blindness, the World Science Festival, and CBS Evening News

    Sanjay Gupta reported on Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close's face blindness during last night's CBS Evening News. Both Sacks and Close discussed in detail their bizarre experiences with the disorder, known as prosopagnosia, last June at the Festival during Strangers in the Mirror.

  • Listen to "Strangers in the Mirror" on RadioLab!

    The fine folks at NPR's RadioLab have produced a new episode based on Strangers in the Mirror, which features Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close (and was moderated by RadioLab's own Robert Krulwich). Have a listen over at their site. Or add to your cue wherever podcasts are sold for...

  • Tell Us a Story

    Have a story to tell from the 2010 World Science Festival? Maybe it was something you learned? (Like, for instance, if the Earth were to be a black hole it would have to collapse to the size of a grain of sand.) Perhaps it was a serendipitous chat you had when bumping into your...

  • That’s a Wrap (Or Is It?)  THANK YOU!

    Well, another World Science Festival is in the books. And what a trip it’s been. One attendee at this year’s festival suggested that, as if conjuring the gravity of a supermassive black hole, we must have slowed down the passing of time in order “to do so much in 5 days.”...

  • All Creatures Great and Smart LIVE at 3:00pm

    We'll be streaming the animal cognition program live from the Skirball Center in NYC, featuring Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods, Jeremy Niven, Patrick Hof, and Klaus Zuberbühler. And moderated by RadioLab's Jad Abumrad.

  • Painting with E. coli

    This morning, I caught up with Amy Chase Gulden, the Growing Impressions artist who is half of the team that is leading BioArt this Thursday at the Museum of Arts and Design. We were headed to a biology lab at The New School. Our mission? To cover 75 pre-poured agar plates...

  • What if Science Were Like Sports?

    Christina Agapakis joins us from the ever-inspired Oscillator, her synthetic biology blog at ScienceBlogs. When she’s not reshuffling DNA sequences in her lab at Harvard, she’s usually there making Lady Gaga video spoofs, or something obvious like that. I'm almost embarrassed...

  • Evolutionary Bridges

    Sam McDougle joins us from re:COGNITION at The Beautiful Brain. Sam splits this time between behavioral neuroscience research at the University of Pennsylvania, playing fiddle in an Appalachian string-band, and drumming in an indie rock trio.

  • Migrations Between Science and Art

    Jennifer Jacquet joins us from Guilty Planet. Jennifer is a postdoctoral research fellow working with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. It is nice to see science and art getting along. The World Science Festival's event Eye Candy demonstrates how science...

  • Animals Like Us

    What is it that makes us humans unique? Is it our capacity to learn language? To cooperate on a vast scale and build civilizations? To make fun of celebrities? To answer all those questions (except maybe the last one), scientists don't limit their research to our own species. We...

  • Tune into the World

    If you’re like me, you probably pay much more attention to what you see around you than to what you hear. Maybe you even “tune out” much of the time. But actually sound is just as important as sight to our existence – maybe even more so. We hear before we see in the womb. The...

  • How We Face the World

    Imagine a chair. It has physical attributes: four legs, a seat, some sort of a back. Now imagine a human face. It also has physical attributes: eyes, a nose, a mouth. But, remarkably, the ways we process these features in our brains—and more crucially how we remember them—are...

  • Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World

    At first glance, it's a title that could seem boring. "Feeding a hungry world." Maybe even trite. One can only assume it's yet another infomercial asking for us to help starving children. And we've been hearing about that for years. What's new? What's fresh? What's surprising?...

  • Chasing Squirrels in Hyperspace

    Joining us from Uncertain Principles is Chad Orzel, physicist and author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. When not unraveling the secrets of quantum physics with his dog, Emmy, Chad conducts research and teaches at Union College, where he is an associate professor in the...

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