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Night Science

Night Science

62 Episodes • By Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher • night-science.org
Where do ideas come from? In each episode, scientists Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher explore science's creative side with a leading colleague. New episodes come out every second Monday. 
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Tina Seelig on what to do with a really bad idea
Tina Seelig is Executive Director of the Knight-Henn... more
Jul 15 2024 29m
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Venki Ramakrishnan and the secrets of doing science over tea
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Jul 1 2024 33m
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Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv and the point of creative frustration
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May 27 2024 36m
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Guy Yanai on Pentimento
Guy Yanai is a painter whose work is displayed in ma... more
May 14 2024 24m
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George Church and shooting for the stars
George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medi... more
Apr 29 2024 36m
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Magdalena Zernicka-Götz lights a candle for science
Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz directs research labs... more
Apr 15 2024 39m
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Isaac Newton and a new kind of science
Night Science – coming up with novel ways to interpr... more
Apr 1 2024 26m
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Bo Xia and a tale of tails
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Feb 28 2024 31m
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Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity
Prof. Todd Golub, the Director of the Broad Institut... more
Feb 26 2024 35m
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Sean B. Caroll – he told some good stories
Sean Carroll is a world-renowned scientist, author, ... more
Feb 12 2024 39m
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Nigel Goldenfeld and the jazz improvisations of science
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Jan 29 2024 40m
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It takes two to think
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Jan 15 2024 23m
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Rich White on living on the edge cases
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Jan 8 2024 43m
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Carolyn Bertozzi and a long game called science
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Dec 25 2023 40m
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Steve Quake and the Creative Network
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Dec 11 2023 35m
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John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you
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Nov 27 2023 30m
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Peter Ratcliffe on being the Master of Daydreams
Peter J. Ratcliffe shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Ph... more
Nov 13 2023 35m
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Christina Curtis and keeping the faith in the process
Christina Curtis is a Professor of Medicine and the ... more
Oct 30 2023 42m
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Daniel Dennett’s intuition pumps
Daniel Dennett, Professor at Tufts University, may b... more
Oct 16 2023 41m
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Howard Stone on how to tilt your head for discovery
Howard Stone is a Professor of Engineering at Prince... more
Sep 25 2023 39m
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Prisca Liberali and the junkies of discovery
Prisca Liberali is a senior group leader at the Frie... more
Sep 10 2023 32m
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Tom Mullaney & Chris Rea on giving thanks to bias
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Aug 28 2023 43m
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Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way
Bonnie Bassler is the Chair of the Molecular Biology... more
Aug 14 2023 38m
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Yukiko Yamashita, the queen of analogies
Yukiko Yamashita is a biology professor at MIT and a... more
Jul 3 2023 26m
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Stephen Wolfram is the Worldly Scientist
Can you think of another big company CEO that does b... more
Jun 19 2023 41m
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