Jeffery DelViscio

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio |Kelso Harper |Carin Leong

Rachel Feltman: Hey, it’s Rachel, and I am here in a bunny suit at MIT.nano with Professor Vladimir Bulović, who is going to show us around. Vladimir Bulović: Well, it’s a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for coming. [The] goal of this space is to enable anyone to build anything they wish. Feltman: Hey, it's still Rachel, but now I'm here at the Scientific American recording studio. As you just heard, today's episode is a little different than our standard format.

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This week marks the fifth anniversary of COVID being declared a global pandemic. So much changed about all our lives then that we are still feeling five years later. As we reflect on this anniversary, our producer Fonda Mwangi took a pulse check on where the U.S. public health system is now and the lessons it’s learned.

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Lee Billings |Jeffery DelViscio |Madison Goldberg

[CLIP: Theme music]Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking images of the cosmos and providing countless people around the world with very pretty phone backgrounds. But meanwhile a spacecraft you probably haven’t heard of has been busy shaping our understanding of the universe in a quieter, less glamorous way.

2 months ago | pourlascience.fr | Shayla Love |Jeffery DelViscio

Le bourdonnement que vous entendez lorsqu’une abeille visite une fleur résulte du mouvement de l’air produit par le battement de ses ailes. Mais il y a un peu plus que ce bruit…Giles Harrison : J’ai en effet découvert autre chose quand un bourdon s’est posé sur une électrode que j’utilisais. L’appareil de mesure relié a révélé la présence d’une charge électrique.

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio

Rachel Feltman: Have you ever really thought about the hair that grows out of your head? I mean, I’m sure you’ve thought about your hair—in terms of which way to get it cut and how to get that one really wonky piece to behave itself—but have you ever considered why it is the way it is? For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. My guest today is biological anthropologist Tina Lasisi, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.