My latest piece forĀ IEEE SpectrumĀ is finally LIVE! (And airing on WNYC this weekend – woot!) It’s about a group of researchers at Virginia Tech who’ve created a fiberoptic microneedle device inspired by a mosquito. It’s designed for use in state-of-the-art cancer treatments. I left VaTech pretty much convinced these guys are going to save the…
I have fallen in love with the subject of our first piece in this show – John Mainstone, the guardian of the pitch drop experiment – the longest running science demonstration in the world.Ā Michael RheeĀ has that story from Australia. And if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands, youĀ can watch the pitch drop…
And here’s part 2 of our ‘best of” show – season 5. (Wow – I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for 5 years!) First,Ā producerĀ Andrew StelzerĀ uncovers how researchers are attempting to contact extraterrestrial beingsĀ from the showĀ Is Anybody Out There?Ā Then, Distillations’ assistant producer Anne Fredrickson pulls out her cello for an investigation of Stradivari’s instruments. Is…