Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t
Laura Simons is a clinical psychologist and an authority on pain, particularly chronic pain in child
Guest Olivier Gevaert is an expert in multi-modal biomedical data modeling and recently developed ne
Rebecca Silverman is an expert in how humans learn to read. It’s a complex process, she says. First
Professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand’s latest book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, explo
We’re taking you into our archive of over 250 episodes to re-share an interview Russ Altman did in 2
Mark Skylar-Scott is one of the world’s foremost experts on the 3D printing of human tissue, cell by
Cognitive scientist Michael Frank studies differences in how children and AI learn language. There i
We’re re-running an important episode on Alzheimer’s disease — a topic that touches many people. We
Ran Abramitzky studies the economic history of immigration by tapping into now-public government rec
We’re re-releasing a wonderful episode about the positive impact art has on individual and societal
As the pandemic made a doctor visit as easy as a Zoom call and computer vision proved able to distin
To kick off 2024, we’re bringing you an episode that’s been one of our most popular. The timing is j
Russ's curated playlist of six episodes from our archive to accompany you through the holiday season
Professor Michael Fischbach, tells us that the “gut biome” – that is, the complex community of bacte
Professor Stephen Quake's research has helped countless patients avoid the pain and suffering that c
Guest Percy Liang is an authority on AI who says that we are undergoing a paradigm shift in AI power
Guest Alex Konings studies fundamental links between the global cycle of water percolating into the
We’re re-running a fascinating conversation Russ had with Zhenan Bao back in 2017 about the work she
Space exploration and travel are two topics that are always exciting, and that have sparked a lot of
Using math to improve photographs, with expert guest Gordon Wetzstein. Such methods have exploded in
