PNAS Science Sessions
PNAS
Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
Episodes
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Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Modeling human cognition
James "Jay" McClelland describes a parallel distributed processing approach to understanding human cognition.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Exchanging kidneys
Alvin Roth discusses how principles of economics can benefit people who need kidney transplants.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Nicotine addiction and relapse
Inés Ibañez-Tallon discusses how nicotine and neurons conspire to hamper efforts to quit smoking.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
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.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Supernova chemistry
Paul Dunk discusses the chemistry of carbon in space following a supernova.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
The postdoctoral problem
NAS member Gregory Petsko discusses efforts to assess the US postdoctoral workforce.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
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.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Genetic screening for adults
C. Thomas Caskey and Amy McGuire discuss whole-genome genetic screening for adult-onset diseases.
Jun 10, 2019 • 6min
Synthesizing fuels and chemicals from CO2
James Liao talks about engineering microorganisms to synthesize fuels and chemicals from CO2.
Jun 10, 2019 • 4min
Speech perception and language acquisition in infants
Janet Werker describes how exposure to speech and environmental factors can affect language acquisition by infants.
