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PNAS Science Sessions

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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10:22

Motherese in bottlenose dolphins

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/09/25

Laela Sayigh asks whether dolphins use "motherese" when communicating with their calves.

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10:18

Racial disparities and climate policy

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/09/11

Pascal Polonik and Kate Ricke explain why reducing greenhouse gas emissions does not always improve environmental equity.

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10:41

What illusions tell us about silence

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/08/28

Ian Phillips, Rui Zhe Goh, and Chaz Firestone use auditory illusions to explore how people perceive silence.

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10:43

Growth mindset and educational outcomes

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/08/14

Cameron Hecht discusses an intervention targeting high school teachers to improve student retention and diversity in STEM fields.

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10:24

How dehorning affects rhino behavior

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/07/31

Vanessa Duthé explains how dehorning affects the behavior of black rhinoceroses.

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08:54

Why legalese persists

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/07/17

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

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07:39

Gender gap among migrant scientists

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/07/03

Researchers explore trends in the gender gap among internationally mobile scholars.

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09:38

Communal nesting in bird-like dinosaur

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/06/19

Mattia Tagliavento talks about the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds using isotopes in Troodon eggshells.

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10:07

Racial disparities in air pollution exposure

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/06/05

Pengfei Liu shares findings on racial disparities in exposure to the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide.

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10:01

How vertebrates acquired a gene for vision

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/05/22

Chinmay Kalluraya and Matthew Daugherty explain how vertebrates acquired a gene critical for vision from bacteria.

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09:26

Genomic insights for sea turtle conservation

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/04/24

Blair P. Bentley, Lisa Komoroske, and Camila Mazzoni discuss the role genomic elements play in the evolution of sea turtles.

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09:10

Jump, bend, and roll: The rise of bioinspired robots

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/04/04

A special edition of Science Sessions delves into the capabilities of robots inspired by plants and animals.

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10:06

Math learning through videos

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/03/20

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

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09:51

Impressionism and air pollution

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/03/06

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.

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09:55

How lizards adapt to urban living

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/02/14

Kristin Winchell explains the genetic basis of anole adaptation to urban environments.

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07:36

Revisiting the history of animal extinctions

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/01/30

Researchers document animal extinctions in the Ediacaran Period that may have preceded the earliest known mass extinction.

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10:08

The music of Mesozoic bush crickets

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/01/16

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

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07:13

How a neural network taught itself chess

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2023/01/03

Tom McGrath describes how the neural network AlphaZero taught itself how to play chess without observing a human game.

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07:23

Honeybees: Nature’s puzzle solvers

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2022/12/19

Orit Peleg, Golnar Fard and Francisco López Jiménez explain how honeybees overcome geometric constraints to construct honeycombs.

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10:16

Cultural identity in sperm whales

PNAS Science Sessions ·

2022/12/05

Taylor Hersh explores how patterns of clicks produced by sperm whales suggest the exchange of cultural information between the whales.

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