SOS Shortlist (Claire Riordan)

Think Like a Scientist -- Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Nate Dappen Neil Loisin

The tragic 2013-2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa shocked the world. In this episode of Think Like a Scientist, computational genetiicist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses bring us to the front line of the epidemic and explain the science behind how this event became the largest ebola outbreak in history. This film was produced by Day's Edge Productions for HHMI BioInteractive and Nautilus Magazine. Check out the full story here: autil.us/issue/41/selection/natural-selection-in-an-outbreak

The Perfect Apple

Maria Juranic Rachel Meyer

For as long as humans lived around malus species, they've been eating apples. The apple tree has been domesticated, diversified - it has evolved in new ways via natural and artificial selection. But what is the perfect apple?
Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification.
Imagine Science Film Festival 2014, 48hr Competition
Scientist: Rachel Mayer, Filmmaker: Maria Juranic
Prop: Time Piece
Line of Dialogue: "They said it would be ready at noon."
Character: Eleanor Drew, Principal Investigator

Haptics Tactics

Nguyen Khoi Nguyen

Allison Okamura and the CHARM lab at Stanford University focus on what the sense of touch can bring to robot-human interactions.
Learn more : http://specialprojects.sciencemag.org/xxfiles/

Sniff (2015)

Fernando Cucchietti Guillermo Marin

How do we breathe? How do we smell?
Using supercomputer simulations, scientists can recreate a rapid and short inhalation, a 'sniff'.
Using pure data visualizations, this short documentary allows us to see the stunning beauty of this process.
Credits:
Directors: Guillermo Marin & Fernando Cucchietti
Narrator: Claudia Sanchiz Garin
Music: Benjamin Boysen

Under The Skin

Miao Wang

Zhenan Bao and her team at Stanford University are one of many teams around the world harnessing Polymers to help us develop a near perfect replcation of human skin.

Tropical Birds Confront Global Warming

Daniel Grossman

Gustavo Londoño hunts birds' nests in the Manú National Park in Peru. He rigs them with cameras to identify what predators eat eggs and chicks. His research results suggest surprising challenges that some birds will face as the region warms further.
Director | Daniel Grossman
Editor | Simon Werdmuller von Elgg
Music | Cedric Conti
Daniel Grossman has been a print journalist and radio and web producer for 30 years. He has reported from all seven continents including from near both the south and north poles. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a B.S. in physics, both from MIT. He was has been awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism and an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. He is author of Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise, and coauthor of A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Microcosmos (2016)

Sally Warring

A busy drop of water showing some of the stunning diversity of the microbial world. Here there are many different types of ciliates, bacteria, flagellates and microscopic animals, all coexisting in a few microliters of water.

Lifespan

Juliette Martineau

We all grow old eventually. But do we really have to? Could humans be immortal one day? Through the work of global leading scientists on three incredible kinds of animal that don't really age like we do, Lifespan reveals some of the surprising causes of human aging, and what we could do about it. This short documentary takes a personal approach, blending science interviews, laboratory footage and macro photography to get up close with hydras, fruit flies and naked mole rats.

Scientists Under the Microscope

Anne Milne

Scientists Under The Microscope looks more closely at what is going on under the surface, allowing another element of the unseen to emerge.

I am a Mobile Element: A Conversation with Emmanuelle Charpentier

Alexis Gambis

2020 Nobel Prize laureate Emmnauelle Charpentier discusses her hybrid identity, nomadic life and career, jumping off CRISPR-Cas9 to discuss broader elements around mobile elements and migration around the science.
Directed by Alexis Gambis / Cinematography by Yosuke Eddie Hosoi / Editing & Animation by Gergo Vargo / Music by Garreth Chan
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