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Night Science

47 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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John Mattick and doing what your mother taught you
John Mattick is Professor of RNA Biology at the Univ... more
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
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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
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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
Tom Mullaney is a Professor of History at Stanford U... more
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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Laurence Hurst and the slime mold model of discovery
Laurence Hurst is a professor of Evolutionary Geneti... more
Jun 5 2023 41m
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Edith Heard and the feeling for the system
Edith Heard is a Professor at the Collège de France ... more
May 22 2023 37m
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Ewan Birney and the battle scars of discovery
Ewan Birney is the deputy director general of the Eu... more
May 8 2023 40m
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Paola Arlotta and science as a walk in the dark woods
Paola Arlotta is a developmental neurobiologist and ... more
Apr 24 2023 51m
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Marty Martin and Art Woods on science podcasting
In this special, we talk about podcasting with the t... more
Apr 10 2023 1h 1m
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Alfred Russel Wallace and night science by candlelight
What was the creative process of Alfred Russel Walla... more
Apr 1 2023 53m
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Zak Kohane and the abstraction of data
Isaac (Zak) Kohane is the Chair of the Department of... more
Mar 20 2023 28m
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Jim Collins and the technology-free Friday
Jim Collins is Professor of Biological Engineering a... more
Mar 6 2023 41m
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Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
Caroline Bartman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Princet... more
Feb 13 2023 28m
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Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
Albert-László Barabási is a distinguished professor ... more
Jan 22 2023 39m
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Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
Doing science reminds Stuart Firestein of an old say... more
Jan 2 2023 33m
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Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday
Professor Galit Lahav is the Chair of the Systems Bi... more
Dec 10 2022 38m
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Eric Topol on thinking big about AI in medicine
Eric Topol is a cardiologist, scientist, and author.... more
Nov 21 2022 39m
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Aviv Regev on how to be generous with your ideas
Aviv Regev is what anyone would call a true science ... more
Oct 31 2022 35m
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Cassandra Extavour and the language of creativity
Cassandra Extavour is a Professor of developmental a... more
Oct 10 2022 23m
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