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PNAS Science Sessions

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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.
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Episodes

Measuring Poverty

Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us. In this episode, Christine Pu describes how commonly used measures of poverty don't agree, and why definitions of po...

Apr 22, 2024•9 min

How a small fish makes big sounds

How a small fish makes big sounds Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us. In this episode, Verity Cook from Charité – Berlin University of Medicine explains...

Apr 08, 2024•6 min

History of flight in dinosaurs

Dinosaur feathers hint at flight history Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us. In this episode, Jingmai O’Connor and Yosef Kiat share insights gleaned fro...

Mar 25, 2024•10 min

Bee communication in a changing world

Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us. In this episode, researchers describe the potential impact of anthropogenic disturbances on bee communication. In th...

Mar 04, 2024•17 min

50 years of DNA cloning

Stanley Cohen reflects on the 50-year legacy of a classic PNAS paper on recombinant DNA.

Dec 18, 2023•12 min

Skeletal records and gender bias

Jeremy Siow, Taylor Damann, and Margit Tavits discuss both historical and modern gender inequality in Europe.

Nov 20, 2023•9 min

Penalties tied to motherhood

Cecilia Machado and Douglas Almond discuss the impact of a first child on the career trajectory of mothers.

Oct 09, 2023•10 min

Why legalese persists

Eric Martínez explains why legal documents are written in hard-to-read language.

Jul 17, 2023•9 min

Math learning through videos

Stanislas Dehaene and Marie Amalric investigate whether short online videos are sufficient to teach mathematics concepts.

Mar 20, 2023•10 min

Impressionism and air pollution

Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers describe how optical effects consistent with air pollution appear in the paintings of Claude Monet and J.M.W. Turner.

Mar 06, 2023•10 min

The music of Mesozoic bush crickets

Bo Wang and Chunpeng Xu describe how fossilized katydids provide insight into the role of insect sounds in the Mesozoic.

Jan 16, 2023•10 min
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