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Lawrence Livermore National Lab — 53 episodes

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In the Mood: Deciphering Complex Brain Signals

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Improving Human Health One Atom at a Time - Biomedical Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

3

Building Biologically Inspired Nano-Bots

4

3D Printing: From Imagination to Realization

5

Reconstructing a Rabies Epidemic: Byte by Byte

6

Forensic Science in Crisis: How Proteins Can Help

7

Behold Livermorium: A Quest for New Elements

8

From Basketball and Medicine to Climate: Understanding the World through Statistics

9

iChip: Human Physiology in the Palm of Your Hand

10

Computer Simulations of Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area

11

Hydrology of an Ant Farm

12

Shale Gas Revolution

13

Green Power: Making Electricity out of Thin Air

14

The Cardioid Project: Simulating the Human Heart on the World's Fastest Supercomputer

15

Menacing Microbes: Protein Models Reveal Secrets

16

Fusion Modeling: Using Big Computers to Understand One of the Universe's Biggest Secrets

17

Computer Simulation: Exploring Nature with a Computer

18

Veterans Internship

19

Medical Radar: Next Generation Life Saving Medical Devices

20

The 'Bio' in Biofuels: New Energy from Ancient Life

21

The Extreme X-Ray Universe: Discovery Science with NASA's NuSTAR Mission

22

Detecting Pathogen DNA: Making Medical Diagnostics Fast Accurate and Cheap

23

The Gamma-Ray Spectrometer at Mercury: A Seven Year Journey to the Innermost Planet

24

Sleuthing Seismic Signals: Understanding Earthquake Hazard and Monitoring Nuclear Explosions

25

Fighting Super Bugs: Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance

26

Space Junk: Traffic Cops in Space

27

Restoring Sight to the Blind: Bridging the Medical Gap with Technology

28

Proton Therapy for Cancer: Addressing a Big Problem with a Small Machine

29

It’s Gust About Time: Harnessing the Wind for Our Energy Needs

30

Superheavy Elements: Search for the End of the Periodic Table

31

Withstanding Climate Change: You Can Change the World

32

Distant Worlds: Making Images of Other Solar Systems

33

Storing Carbon Dioxide in the Earth Not the Atmosphere

34

Harnessing Fusion Energy: The Power of Light

35

Understanding Climate Change: Seeing the Carbon Through the Trees

36

It’s a Breeze: Using the Wind to Power Our Future

37

Aerogels: The Materials Science of Empty Space

38

Order from Chaos: The Birth of the Solar System

39

Avoiding Armageddon: Diverting Asteroids with Nuclear Explosives

40

Star Power on Earth: The Path to a Limitless Clean Energy Future

41

Our Dark and Messy Universe: How One Particle Might Light the Way

42

Geothermal Energy: Harnessing the Heat Beneath Your Feet

43

From the Sun to the Sun: The Story on the National Ignition Facility and Our Energy Future

44

Protecting the Nation’s Livestock: Corralling Foreign Diseases

45

Greenhouse Reduction - Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide

46

Driving a Rocket Fueled Car: 500 Miles at 400 Degrees Below Zero

47

Energy Crisis: Will Technology Save Us?

48

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: How AMS Works in Biology and Health Care

49

Comets and the Stardust Mission: What’s in our Solar System’s Freezer?

50

The National Ignition Facility: Making Star Power on Earth

51

Energy and Environmental Trends and the Role of Technology in Climate Change Abatement

52

Life on Earth: Instructions in Three Billion (tiny) Letters or Less

53

Waves in Nature: Lasers to Tsunamis and Beyond