Bio: Dani Caputi is a doctoral candidate in Atmospheric Science at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on ozone pollution and nocturnal mixing dynamics in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Additionally, she has initiated several mind-matter interaction experiments that explore the possibility of mentally influencing the weather, and has introduced the selection problem [...]

Leading laboratories have recognized the potetial of utilizing plasma (charged particles within a luminous gas) to reform unwanted emissions into neutral constituents, and thereby reduce pollution. However, several decades of attempts to develop a practical solution have failed for a variety of reasons: plasma instability, large power requirements, lack of robust reactor architectures, and the [...]

This SSE Community Discussion Hour was presented by Prof. Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author. Prof. Loeb’s talk will feature content from his book “Extraterrestrial”, as well as the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. Related material was also featured in [...]