Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Richard F. Picanso talks about the mechanisms that drive the birth, growth and death of tropical cyclones, and how operational missions of the Hurricane Hunters flying unit have evolved with improved technology. There… Read More
Ron Vale, vice president and director of HHMI Janelia Research Campus, talks about the small protein-based machines that convert chemical energy into biological motion and why they are essential for medicine and biotechnology. He also discusses what scientists… Read More
Entire industries owe their origins to the fluke 19th-century discovery of fluorescent dyes. Jon Grimm, a senior scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, explores how dye synthesis sparked the evolution of organic chemistry and how 21st-century chemistry is… Read More
Colonel Phil Walsh, an adventurer, engineer and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, shares stories and images from his transit of the Northwest Passage. He highlights the nature and people he encountered as well as the equipment, technology and conditions… Read More
Dr. Giuseppe Esposito, chief of nuclear medicine at Georgetown University Hospital, shares how recent FDA-approved radiopharmaceuticals have advanced the field of nuclear medicine and now allow physicians to diagnose, and in some cases treat, conditions including breast and… Read More
Daniel Feliciano, project team fellow at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, explores how the available resources surrounding cells within tissues are used as energy sources and building blocks to determine different cell functions. It's free! Come early to enjoy… Read More
Recent excavations at New Mexico's White Sands National Park revealed 23,000-year-old tracks of ancient human beings alongside extinct megafauna. Archaeologist Dan Odess discusses this remarkable discovery. Come early and enjoy craft beverages--beer, wine, cider, vodka soda cocktails--and delicious… Read More
Virginia Tech wildlife ecologist and researcher Christopher Blume discusses how development affects bats, mammals that are indicators of ecosystem health. Blume is currently collecting data about bat species in Rock Creek National Park in Washington, D.C. Come early… Read More
Aphids can induce galls by injecting proteins into plants, hijacking plant development. David Stern, senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, discusses how his research into this problem could lead to controlling pest aphids. Come early and… Read More
Joe May, former Virginia state delegate and founder of the EIT2.0 technology company, reflects on his career in circuit and instrumentation design. He also talks about the engineering behind some of his 28 patents, many in the field… Read More