The Disneyfication of Atomic Power
Inside America’s propaganda campaign, “Atoms for Peace,” launched in the wake of Hiroshima.
Youth Activists Push Schools’ Retirement Fund to Divest
Redford Center Stories highest distinction film focuses on the financial side of fighting climate change.
To the Passionate Youth: Why Wait?
Eloise Sent’s Redford Center Stories film entry says that young people can change the world right now—so don’t wait.
“Even Little Things” Add Up to Justice
Redford Center Stories Highest Distinction prizewinner highlights how small actions can have big impacts.
How to Take Back the Power to Change the World
Redford Center Stories Grand Prize-winning film spotlights ways even a tiny ripple can change the narrative.
Film Contest Gives Young Environmental Activists a Voice
Middle schoolers Annabelle VanderMarck and Piper Lasater won the Nautilus Science Prize in the Redford Center Stories film contest.
My Personal Hero: Robert Sapolsky on Rudolf Virchow
Germany, 1865. A man, wealthy and powerful, gets into an argument with a colleague who calls him out for being the habitual liar that he is. Enraged, he challenges his accuser to a duel. The challenger has a military background and is no stranger to weapons and dueling. The challenged, a meek physician scientist, has […]
Dr. Kirk Johnson
Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History
Sean B. Carroll, PhD
Vice President for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Chiara M. F. Mingarelli
Gravitational-wave Astrophysicist, Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf
Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Joyce Poole
The elephant researcher tells her story.
Lisa Becking
A marine biologist talks about the wonders of hidden lakes.
France A. Cordova
Director of the National Science Foundation
My Personal Hero: Michael Storrie-Lombardi
Being a scientist can be like willingly entering into a Roman gladiatorial contest. The hours are long, there’s a rank smell of indentured servitude, and at any minute your colleagues may attempt to eviscerate you for the pleasure of the crowds. A lot of the time we can look beyond these challenges because we have […]
My Personal Hero: Helen Keller
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? If there’s a better description of […]