Detecting Nanochemistry with AFM-IR: From Outer Space to Better Health
The modern world presents many questions, such as "Where does life originate?" and "Can we make the world healthier with nanomedicine?"
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The DDT Story You Haven’t Heard
In 2011, Dr. David Valentine's research team explored an old ocean dump site, finding disturbing amounts of DDT and other chemicals in the seafloor between Los Angeles and Catalina Island.
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AI for Disease Prediction and Early Detection: Opportunities and Challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is penetrating every aspect of our lives. Healthcare will not be an exception. This new technology is expected to stretch our boundaries of knowledge of diseases and may also help us detect diseases early or monitor disease progression.
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Why Do Chemical and Pharmaceutical Companies Care Why the Sky is Blue?
Everyone is familiar with weighing materials on a scale, but as remarkable as it sounds, one can "weigh" molecules by shining light on them and analyzing the scattering.
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Beyond the Higgs Boson: Using the Higgs to Look for New Particles and the Future at the LHC
Over a decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN opened a new era of fundamental physics with the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Shining a Light on Microplastics: Providing Tools for Informed Environmental Action
Microplastics, small plastic particles originating from plastic waste, are a pervasive global environmental problem. This talk will outline the scope of the problem and the goal of finding paths to mitigate the impacts of microplastics.
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Artificial Intelligence: Thoughts on AI as a Practitioner Turned Investor
Deep Learning models and tools such as ChatGPT are transforming our world.
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Goleta Join’s California’s Energy Storage Transformation
Wind and solar power are key to California's transition to clean renewable energy. But, where do we get energy when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining?
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The Environmental Footprint of Global Food Production
Feeding humanity puts enormous environmental pressure on our planet.
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Human-AI Integration
If we think of Artificial Intelligence as a building material, we can ask the question: What tools will we build with AI that will improve our lives?
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A Sneak Preview of Space Base California
What does a destination guest experience have in common with the first people to paint on cave walls?
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Learning to See Again with a Bionic Eye
How can we return a functional form of sight to people who are living with incurable blindness?
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Paradigm-Changing Antibiotics to Combat the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been described as a slow-moving tsunami that threatens to undermine modern medicine and is directly responsible for 1.27 million annual deaths.
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