Becoming a Nobel laureate: Louis Brus on his discovery of quantum dots – podcast

Louis Brus, one of the newest Nobel laureates in chemistry, speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation • conversation
Oct. 19, 2023 ~4 min

How animal traits have shaped the journey of species across the globe

New research looks at how different species have managed to cross geographic barriers throughout history and whether their individual traits played a crucial role in these journeys.

Sarah-Sophie Weil, PhD candidate, Swansea University • conversation
Oct. 17, 2023 ~7 min


Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid

Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.

Lucinda King, Space Projects Manager & Mission Design Lead, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Oct. 13, 2023 ~7 min

The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system

The discovery provides a way to study the birth of an entirely new planet in real time.

Zoe Leinhardt, Associate Professor, School of Physics, University of Bristol • conversation
Oct. 11, 2023 ~7 min

How we hired 2023 Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier – and why we knew she was destined for greatness

L'Huillier was busy teaching when she her Nobel prize was awarded.

Sune Svanberg, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Lund University • conversation
Oct. 4, 2023 ~6 min

Nobel prize in physics awarded for work unveiling the secrets of electrons

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.

Amelle Zaïr, Senior Lecturer of Physics, King's College London • conversation
Oct. 3, 2023 ~5 min

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – mRNA research exemplifies the unpredictable value of basic scientific research

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine made a discovery that helped create the COVID-19 vaccines. They couldn’t have anticipated the tremendous impact of their findings.

André O. Hudson, Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology • conversation
Oct. 3, 2023 ~9 min

The UK re-joining the Horizon research funding scheme benefits Europe too – the data backs it up

Science works better when barriers to collaboration are removed, say experts.

Francesco Billari, Professor of Demography, Bocconi University • conversation
Sept. 20, 2023 ~7 min


Art and science entwined: This course explores the long, interrelated history of two ways of seeing the world

Art and science may seem like opposites, but throughout history the disciplines have fed off each other − and still do today.

Katherine Reinhart, Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York • conversation
Sept. 20, 2023 ~6 min

NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial

Months after a military officer made sensational claims about unexplained objects in the skies, NASA released a report loosely outlining a scientific approach for analyzing UAP reports.

Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona • conversation
Sept. 15, 2023 ~7 min

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