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#AskAScientist

#AskAScientist is a down-and-dirty, shot-at-home, short video series of uncertain duration and frequency in which our friends of The Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of the National Academy of Sciences, talk to scientists who answer their most pressing questions about the state of the state in science.
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ASK A SCIENTIST...What is generative AI?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...How are crops engineered?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What is plasma?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What is the difference between quantum and nano?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What is on the near horizon for nanotech?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...How do you manufacture things on the nanoscale?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What are examples of nanotechnology in our lives?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What is Nanotechnology?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...What can Afrofuturism contribute to our future?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...how does one become an Afrofuturist?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...what is afrofuturism?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...what is the multiverse?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what is the oldest known form of exoskeleton?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what are the different types of exoskeletons?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… is there diversity in deep sea exploration?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… does anything live at the bottom of the ocean?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what was it like to dive to the Mariana Trench?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… how did you become interested in Oceanography?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… how are hackers working for good?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what is the process of researching for films?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… how do you protect your data?

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ASK A SCIENTIST… what is the future of passwords?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...would traveling back in time screw up the present

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ASK A NURSE... what patterns do nurses see in health care?

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ASK A NURSE...what is a nurse's life like?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about destroying the fabric of space and time.

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ASK AN ASTRONAUT...why missions bring mascots with them.

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ASK A SCIENTIST...what does research tell us about free will?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...why do you consult for film and television?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about the portrayal of neuroscience in movies

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ASK A NURSE...what about nursing has changed due to the pandemic

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ASK A SCIENTIST...what is the multiverse?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...if time travel is even possible.

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ASK AN ASTRONAUT... is our country's investment in NASA worth it?

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ASK AN ASTRONAUT....about physically adjusting to being in space.

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ASK A SCIENTIST...do we really only use 10% of our brain?

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Ask a Director....is AI impacting the film industry

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about how the pandemic is changing our brains

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about where life might be found in space

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about the future of privacy online.

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ASK A SCIENTIST....about what it's like to be an octopus on Europa.

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ASK A SCIENTIST...what is the one thing the world should know about AI?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...would you take a one-way trip to Mars?

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about being a good science communicator.

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ASK A SCIENTIST... what will life be like when/if we discover it in space.

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ASK AN ACTOR... about playing a woman computer scientist.

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ASK A SCIENTIST...about being a woman in computer science

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#AskAScientist: Katherine McNamara and Nicole Lurie

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#AskAScientist: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Peggy Hamburg

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