Scientist archive

Learn from past Scientists on the Spot. You can see visitors' questions and the researchers' answers.

• Shaul Hanany He sees the beginning of the universe

• Debra Samac She’s a doctor for plants

• Megan Donahue She X-rays the heavens

• Doris Taylor She heals hearts…and makes them

• Linda Figg She builds bridges of the future

• John Heffernan He’s creating 350 million witnesses

• Renee Mosing She’s looking beyond antibodies to fight disease

• Kirk Allison He studies health and human rights

• Matt Panciera He reads the writing on the wall

• Benjamin Ho He probes a parasite

• Prisca Cushman She watches for WIMPs

• Kate Pound She studies seafloor sediment

• Kristi Wallace She watches volcanoes make ash of themselves

• Julia Ponder She mends broken wings

• Kathleen Coleman She’s a gladiator expert

• Noelle Beckman She studies sylvan seeds

• Ed Fleming He pieces together Minnesota’s past

• Colleen McLinn She studies how animals communicate

• Alan Goodman He reads our lives in our bones and teeth

• P. Alex Greaney He’s hacking nature’s nanotechnology

• Carmen Van Kerckhove She’s helping others fight racism

• Paul Pentel and Dorothy Hatsukami Their new vaccine helps smokers quit

• Joseph L. Graves, Jr. He studies where we came from, where we're going

• Paul Morin He's making a model

• Robin Low He sells "green" nanotechnology

• Troy Goodnough He's fanning the flames of change

• Dr. Bhargav Mistry He's a transplant surgeon

• Greg Cuomo He studies sustainable wind energy

• Janice Boercker She studies nano solar cells

• Meri Firpo She studies human stem cells

• Ghidewon Arefe He studies tiny, tiny dots

• David Lee He directs an anatomy program

• Dr. Mary Faith Marshall She's a medical bioethicist

• Dr. May Yeu Heu - She's a Hmong physician

• Kate Larson She studies a lost world

• Paul Wojda He studies bioethics in the Catholic tradition

• Andrea Strauss She studies relationships between wolves and humans

• Frank Bates He studies the science of stuff

• James Kakalios He studies superhero physics

• Ron Lawrenz He studies critters in the water

• Russ Durkee He studies weather at the South Pole

• Bryan Kennedy He went to the School of Rock

• Kristi Curry Rogers She studies dinos in Madagascar

• Catherine Yansa She studies the secrets of the seeds

• Marla Spivak She's breeding a better bee