TRN Central Science

• The Bill Wattenburg Show - Is the SF Bay Bridge Engineered For Earthquakes? Bill Wattenburg Says No

  (June 10, 2013, 12:52 pm)

• Now It's The News: Today's Young Minds Drive Tomorrow's Innovation-with Bill Nye

  (June 7, 2013, 3:16 pm)

  ExploraVision science competition encourages K – 12 students to imagine what technology might be like in the future. ExploraVision helps teacher sponsors meet many of the National Science Education Standards while letting students experience scientific process and discovery in an engaging, hands-on way.

• Science Fantastic: Alzheimer's Disease and How to Prepare for It-Heather Snyder

  (May 22, 2013, 1:58 pm)

  Dr. Snyder is the Director, Medical and Scientific Relations, at the Alzheimer’s Association. She oversees the Association's International Research Grant Program, the mechanism through which the Association funds research applications. In addition to ensuring the smooth review of applications and distribution of awards to successful applicants, she is responsible for the dissemination of results and ongoing investigations to a wide range of audiences. 

• Science Fantastic: The Most Complex Object in the Universe - Jan-Marino Ramirez, PhD

  (May 8, 2013, 4:03 pm)

  Jan-Marino Ramirez is a Professor of Neurological Surgery. He is also Director or the Center for Integrative Brain Research and a Principal Investigator at Seattle Children's Hospital.

• Science Fantastic: Ramez Naam Joins Michio to Discuss Energy, Population, Water, Fossil Fuels

  (April 23, 2013, 5:25 pm)

  Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, leading teams working on email, web browsing, search, and artificial intelligence. He holds almost 20 patents in those areas.

• Science Fantastic: Soar Into Outer Space with America's Favorite Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson

  (April 9, 2013, 5:57 pm)

  Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and Visiting Research Scientist and Lecturer at Princeton University

• VIDEO: Inexpensive Life Saving Robot for U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan - The Bill Wattenburg Show

  (April 8, 2013, 12:30 pm)

  An inexpensive remote controlled small truck to save the lives of soldiers who die scouting the enemy.

• Science Fantastic: Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World - Rob Brooks

  (April 2, 2013, 1:41 pm)

  Rob Brooks is a evolutionary biologist who thinks about sex, the evolution of mate choice, the costs of being attractive, the reason animals age and the links between sex, diet, obesity and death. Professor of Evolution at UNSW in Sydney, Australia

• Science Fantastic: Alec Foege is the Author of The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great.

  (March 25, 2013, 5:01 pm)

  Alec Foege is the author of Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio, Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story, and The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson’s Media Machine. A former Rolling Stone contributing editor and People magazine senior writer.

• Science Fantastic: Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity - Roger Wiens

  (March 14, 2013, 1:14 pm)

  Roger Wiens is the principal investigator for the ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover and a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wiens has worked at Caltech and the University of California and was in charge of building three instruments for NASA's Genesis mission.

• Science Fantastic: Meteors, Comets, Asteroids with Jon Giorgini

  (March 6, 2013, 3:34 pm)

  Jon Giorgini, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Giorgini earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University; and a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering, specializing in celestial mechanics, from the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked at JPL for 17 years.

• Science Fantastic: How to Build a Time Machine with Brain Clegg and Michio Kaku

  (March 5, 2013, 1:11 pm)

  Brian Clegg holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.

• Michio Kaku: Colin Pask joins to Discuss his book, 'Math for the Frightened'

  (February 21, 2013, 5:46 pm)

  Colin Pask is an emeritus professor of mathematics and a visiting fellow and professor in the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.

• The Bill Wattenburg Show: Prof. Richard Muller on the Future of Energy

  (February 7, 2013, 6:13 pm)

  Professor Richard Muller tells Bill Wattenburg, "Natural gas is the most exciting thing that's happening in the energy arena, in the global warming arena, and the national security arena. It has so many dimentions that it's going to change our lives."

• How Did We Get Here, What is the Origin of The Human Species? Chip Walter

  (February 2, 2013, 1:29 am)

  Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau chief, feature film screenwriter, PBS documentary filmmaker, and author-in-residence at the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.