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Olfactory scientist and researcher turned novelist Andrea Rothman who has written The DNA Of You and Me in which she takes her science background and weaves in into an engaging love story of sorts.... one that takes place in the lab and among strains of DNA. She talks about how smell works and how olfactory sensory neurons reach their targets in the brain and how they process smell.

Veteran journalist and New York Times Bestselling author Maria Goodavage joins the show. Before it was announced that researchers at UPenn have started to train dogs to try to detect COVID-19 , Our guest was already on the case, explaining how scientists were studying if it was even possible in the first place . Now that two of the biggest biodetection dog centers have entered the COVID-19 detection ring, Goodavage’s book Doctor Dogs contains all you need to know about how dogs are trained to

Steven Levy who has written FACEBOOK The Inside Story . For three years, tech writer Steven Levy has had unprecedented access to Facebook’s key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. His new book FACEBOOK: The Inside Story is a fascinating narrative that digs deep into the company’s history, revealing fascinating new insights as he tells the full story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.

Josh Fischman, Senior Editor of Life Sciences & Earth Sciences at Scientific American magazine joins Lynn and John on Cool Science Radio . As the world waits for medical advancement to fight the CoVid-19, research, tests and development is occurring in labs and universities around the world. On April 6 it was widely reported that an oral medicine called EIDD-2801 was able to hinder the coronavirus behind COVID-19 as it attempted to replicate itself in human lung cells in test tubes.

Brian Greene joins Cool Science Radio today to discuss his new book, Until the End of Time . The book is Brian’s new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian’s new book allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos. [This interview was recorded on March 9,

Internal medicine Dr. Matthew Chabot from the Univeristy of Utah Healthcare joins Cool Science Radio. One of his areas of expertise is infectious disease and like every medical expert out there right now, Dr. Chabot is focused on CoVid-19. As a primary care internal medical doctor, he focuses on infectious medicine. It seems like much of what we heard a month ago about symptoms, infection, and testing has now changed. A month ago, we weren’t supposed to wear masks unless we were sick, now it

Cool Science Radio speaks with Dr. Mark Durham from the University of Utah School of Dentistry. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in teaching and in dental practice will improve dental health across the globe as students are learning exacting procedures like root canals using VR long before they ever dive into the mouth of a real person. In fact, AR is are changing the way we can learn. We spoke with Dr. Durham last month about the revolutionary ways that dental students are

[This interview orginally aired for the first time on April 2nd, 2020, but was recorded in early March, 2020] Cool Science Radio is joined by Ann Druyan (Dree-Ann) who in 1980 with her husband Carl Sagan co-wrote what would become the most iconic science-based television series in history and its companion, one of the top-selling science books of all time—COSMOS. The book sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Now, 40 years later, Ann is releasing the sequel to the book, COSMOS with COSMOS:

[Rebroadcast: This interview originally aired on January 9th, 2020] Cool Science Radio speaks with Gemma Tarlach, Senior Editor of Discover Magazine . Gemma joined the show last year to talk about Discover’s September/October cover story on The Science of Gun Violence . It was an eye-opening conversation that you can listen to here . Gemma is back, this time to discuss the most important science stories of the previous year and their potential impact into the future. The Science That Matters

In this episode of Cool Science Radio Michael Vershinin, assistant professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Utah talks with Lynn and John about COVID -19. One of the biggest unknowns about the coronavirus is it’s sensitivity to humidity and temperature and how changing seasons will affect its spread. Michael along with Saveez Saffarian have received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grant to quickly tackle these important questions.