Register here to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Electrons in a molecule zip around the atom in times measured in billionths of a billionth of a second, or...
Register here to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. The afterglow from the Big Bang, called the "cosmic microwave background radiation," serves as the backlight in a shadow...
Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as possible with clean electricity.
Presented by Cyndia Yu. Since the earliest times, we humans have attempted to understand and explain the world around us by observing our surroundings.
Presented by Rachael Kretsch. SARS-Cov-2 and other RNA viruses are formidable natural foes of humanity. To fight them, we must understand them better, especially their main component, RNA.
Presented by Ben Ofori-Okai. Earth’s magnetic field does more than just help us to navigate. It is also used by animals for orientation and migration, and it protects life on Earth from charged particles that stream in from the sun...
Presented by Franklin Fuller. Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid biomass and exhaling oxygen.