First hour: Landing on a comet
Second hour: Updating stem cell research efforts
In our first hour, we landed a probe on a comet. How in the world did we do that? In November, the Rosetta spacecraft completed a 10-year journey to catch up to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Then it dropped a little probe on the surface. It hasn't all gone as intended. We'll learn what's happened to the probe and what Rosetta is teaching us about the comet. Our guest is the next speaker in the lecture series at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. In studio:
Michael Richmond, professor of physics at RIT
Then, in our second hour, we're getting up-to-speed on stem cell research. The debate was raging a decade ago: embryonic vs. adult stem cells. Many local scientists pushed for more opportunity to gain access to embryonic stem cells, given the potential to attack disease. How is research progressing? What's next? Mark Noble will deliver a presentation later this month at the Rochester Academy of Medicine titled, "My Child Does Not Have Time for Your Ethics!" In studio:
Mark Noble, professor of genetics; neurobiology and anatomy at URMC
Richard Dees, ethicist at the University of Rochester