Proteins are the fabric of our lives. The human body and its microbiota potentially produce millions of proteins. With time, these proteins get modified, inactivated, damaged, or under- or over- produced. Therein lies the hazards and hopes.

Science 2034 LIVE: Congressional Briefing

Jul 1st, 2015 57m 16s

Whether your idea of the future leans more toward flying cars or flying to Mars, you’ll want to hear from Science 2034 Live panelists who believe, as result of research being performed today, that the next 20 years will bring some amazing chang

Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Timothy L. Grove

Jun 5th, 2015 9m 25s

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Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Mary Gehring

Jun 5th, 2015 18m 57s

Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Mary Gehring by The Science Coalition

Science 2034 Podcast: MIT's Chris A. Kaiser

Jun 3rd, 2015 18m 34s

Our guest is Chris Kaiser, the chair of MIT's biology department, to talk about the future of fighting infectious diseases, and the importance of basic scientific research in this area. His essay appears in his MIT's new report, "THE FUTURE POS

Science 2034 Podcast: Harvesting the Fuels of the Future

Oct 8th, 2014 11m 45s

By the year 2034, we will be able to produce biofuels efficiently, economically and on a scale such that they make up a meaningful portion of liquid transportation fuels and chemical products in the United States. We will do this by using bioma

Science 2034 Podcast: The “Smart” Room of the Future

Sep 24th, 2014 6m 23s

Maxine D. Brown is Director of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, responsible for fundraising, outreach, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. Her research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualizati

Science 2034 Podcast: Restoring Brain Function Stolen by Disease and Trauma

Sep 10th, 2014 9m 41s

Leo M. Chalupa, Ph.D. is the Vice President for Research at the George Washington University. He is a neurobiologist and researcher on the retina, visual pathways and development of vision. His research has been supported by the National Instit

Science 2034 Podcast: The Forecast Calls For Fog

Sep 9th, 2014 8m 45s

Mung Chiang is a leading researcher in Internet and wireless networks. He is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, the Director of the Keller Center, and the Chair of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee at P

Science 2034 Podcast: Deadly Viruses Are Put On Notice

Sep 9th, 2014 4m 21s

Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D., is Vice Dean for Research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Research, Dean’s Professor & Chair, Microbiology & Immunology at the University o

Science 2034 Podcast: Using Cold Atom Technology to Build a Better Atomic Clock

Aug 24th, 2014 8m 28s

Brett D. DePaola is a professor in the Department of Physics at Kansas State University. His work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Science 2034 Podcast: Nanoparticles on Patrol

Aug 14th, 2014 5m 4s

Matthew Tirrell is the Pritzker Director, Professor and Dean of the Faculty at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His work has been supported by the U.S. Departme

Science 2034 Podcast: Dr. Earl Scime

Aug 8th, 2014 6m 1s

In 2034, new battery materials with significantly increased storage capacity will transform the automotive market, massively reducing gasoline consumption and eliminating a major source of urban pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.