Science (Audio)
Science affects us all. Explore a wide variety of topics from technology in our everyday lives to complex global issues. Visit uctv.tv/science
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 112
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Stem Cells and Next Generation Regenerative Medicine Therapies - Medicine Informing Novel Discoveries (MIND)
Hear about cutting-edge advances in regenerative medicine, from lab breakthroughs to patient impact. Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, introduces efforts at the Sanford Stem Cell Institute to develop thera…
00:59:31 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
A Closer Look at…Stem Cells and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI and genetic medicine are converging to transform how we diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. Gene Yeo, Ph.D., unites RNA biology with artificial intelligence to speed the path from genome sequenc…
00:57:59 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
A Closer Look at…Genetic Medicine and Artificial Intelligence
AI and genetic medicine are converging to transform how we diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. Gene Yeo, Ph.D., unites RNA biology with artificial intelligence to speed the path from genome sequenc…
00:57:59 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
The Art of Scientific Storytelling
Science communication expert Lisa Warshaw and scientist Rob Signer, Ph.D., offer a practical guide to turning complex research into clear, memorable stories. They explain why strong openings, simple …
01:11:34 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Bottom-Up Midbrain-Subthalamic Control of Feeding
UCLA’s Avishek Adhikari, PhD, presents new research on the role of GABAergic neurons in the brain’s periaqueductal gray (PAG) region. Previously studied for their involvement in fear and defensive be…
00:58:38 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Kumeyaay Ha Kwaiyo - Indigenous Ocean Culture: A Renaissance
The land we now call Scripps Oceanography has been home to the Kumeyaay people for thousands of years. A history of encroachment, colonization and displacement from coastal lands has challenged Kumey…
00:47:34 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean
It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new partnerships and solutions that center the ocean in our future. In this pro…
00:59:39 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Science in the White House: Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change Loss of Biodiversity and Inequality/Inequity
Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typically tackled within three separate silos. However, scientifi…
01:09:48 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks. Multicellularity enabled organs and cancer. The immune sys…
01:15:35 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
CARTA: Three Smokes in the Evolution of the Human Exposome with Caleb Finch
Humans have long been exposed to three main types of smoke: from early domestic fires, modern wildfires, and more recently, tobacco and fossil fuel pollution. All release tiny particles from partly b…
00:17:35 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
CARTA: The Industrialized Gut Microbiome with Justin and Erica Sonnenberg
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-gatherer to industrialized, show that the gut microbiome is…
00:19:43 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
CARTA: The Industrialized Gut Microbiome with Justin and Erica Sonnenburg
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-gatherer to industrialized, show that the gut microbiome is…
00:19:43 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin
The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules for extra-maternal cooperation in the production, feeding, …
00:17:57 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
CARTA: Osteoarthritis Back Problems Difficult Birth - Scars of Our Evolution? with Martin Häusler
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations of our body to our peculiar form of locomotion, upright bi…
00:20:03 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
CARTA: Primate Skeletal Gene Regulation: Risks of Human Skeletal Disease Specifically Osteoarthritis with Genevieve Housman
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thus, it is critical to understand how genomic, environmental,…
00:22:17 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Walking the Pier: Women in Scripps Plankton Research
The Birch Aquarium celebrates the incredible contributions of women in the rich history of marine plankton research at Scripps. Judit Hersko performs part of her innovative series of visual narrative…
00:51:50 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
CARTA: Does the Placenta Drive the Evolution of Cancer Malignancy with Günter Wagner
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable between placental mammals. This lecture will discuss recent…
00:19:38 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
CARTA: Is There a Point to Periods? The Evolutionary History of Menstruation and Implications of Women's Health with Deena Emera
Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the endometrium triggered by falling progesterone levels. Menstruation is a rare trait found in less than 2% of mammals and likely evolved independently at le…
00:24:17 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Defining the Limits of Metabolic Flexibility of Squamous Cell Carcinoma with William Lowry - Sanford Stem Cell Symposium 2023
William Lowry, Ph.D., discusses manipulating metabolic pathways in hair follicle stem cells to inhibit tumorigenesis. By blocking glycolysis and glutamine lysis simultaneously, they observed tumor re…
00:42:31 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
CARTA: The Evolution of Powerful Yet Perilous Immune Systems with Andrea Graham
Pressures of life on Earth experienced by our ancestors – as multicellular beings, as hosts to parasites, and as home to microbes – shaped the evolved structure and function of our immune systems. S…
00:18:58 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
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