CUNY Podcasts

By the end of the century, Michio Kaku sees a world in which humans will have x-ray vision, and micromachines " smaller than the period at the end of this sentence " will perform surgery. “Your computerized toilet will be able to analyze proteins emitted from a colony of cancer cells from excreti...

Is Evolution Over? William Bialek, the Graduate Center’s Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics, argues that evolution has pushed living systems to operate at the limits of what the laws of physics allow. “There are many places,” Bialek says, “where organisms have been pushed to, basical...

Since 1980, when Phase 1 drug tests were banned in the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has relied on medical volunteers to participate in safety trials of new drugs. In his recently published book, “The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects,” Robert...