Save Medical Science! Guest: Gerald Denis, PhD. A need-to-know program about the necessity of medical research and the consequences of the government's abrupt cuts on research and agency funding.

Science for the Public: The Brain-Computer Interface Paradox 05/2025. Brain computer-interface (BCI) devices are among the most promising medical innovations today. Individuals who are paralyzed or speechless due to injury or disease are able to learn to

Cancer Research And Why It's Crucial Today. Guest: Gerald Denis, Ph.D., Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Professor; Co-Director, BU-BMC Cancer Center, Boston University. Dr. Denis explains how cancer research works, the international influence of American

Addressing the Global Water Shortage.Due mainly to climate change and wasteful agricultural practices, the supply of freshwater is rapidly diminishing across the globe. To provide water for the world’s huge population, governments must quickly develop adv

Mario Livio, the distinguished former astrophysicist at Hubble Space Telescope (until 2015) and best-selling science author, discusses his latest book, co-authored with Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?" One of the most fascinating quest

Science for the Public: Using Gravitational Lensing to Detect Dark Matter , January 14th, 2025. Recorded live at the Beech Street Center, Belmont MA. Guest: Jacqueline McCleary, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, Northeastern University. Dark matter a

Our Record-Breaking Global Heat: The record-breaking heat of the last few years is, climate scientists say, “not just summer.” Two distinguished researchers, Mathew Barlow and Jeffrey Basara, discuss their recent important article about the sudden uptick

Contemporary Science . . . Fossil Fuel Pollution's Impact on Health and Mortality: A new international study has revealed a much greater that fossil fuel pollution has on health and on mortality rates than previously thought.

The James Webb Space Telescope and other advanced technologies are providing unprecedented new insights about the early universe, especially the emergence of the first stars and galaxies and the relationship between these formations and mysterious dark ma

The Mystery of Animal Migration - Charles Walcott has been a leader in the research on migratory creatures, especially birds. He explains in this program what scientists presently know, and how scientists investigate the sensory maps of migratory creature

Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations: The Global Green New Deal 09/03/24; The 2020 book, Climate Crisis and The Global Green New Deal, by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin is a major source of information about the climate change crisis and also the b