Rundown 5 — imaging stomata: watching plants “breathe”

33:52>> and glass. We use glass in a whole a whole number of applications. >> Yeah. And one of the key things for me that I really liked about this story was that you can use all of the engineering that we've developed to make chips >> and silicon semiconductor industry stuff we can now use to make this glass. Right? That's one of the reasons why it's so cheap is because we can leverage all of this infrastructure that we've already built for all of our computing and now we're making glass out of silicon. >> It's always great when we don't have to rebuild our industrial base in order to be able to enable and access new technology. >> It's like discovering you can build a high performance jet engine with the standard parts from a local hardware

34:33store, >> which is fascinating. Our last quick rundown story of the day before we get back into our main stories is this ability to watch plants breathing really really really well. This is an environmental science January 7th stomata insight a real time window into crop survival. So the idea behind this is people are trying to improve how we do certain aspects of agriculture. the better we can monitor and see stuff, the better we can do things to sort of impact outcomes from a a crop perspective. >> Yeah, it's more it's like a methods paper that is like, you know, I now now

35:13that we have a way to measure >> the stomata opening and closing on the on the bottom of a leaf. we can figure out what are the genes that actually control these things and then well can I you know crisper these genes to then make a droughtresistant crop that doesn't open when it's you know too dry things like that >> this is a new imaging system that lets science watch the microscopic mouths of plants as they breed in high definition out of University of Illinois Urbana Champagne uh Joseph D Crawford and Andrew DB Leaky um very cool I love plants I love the idea of like you Having plants around is always super fun and fantastic. And that's just a little brief rundown. We can't always cover

35:54every story, but we're trying to illustrate there's so much happening. There's so much going on >> that does actually translate into real world. It's not all just abstract. >> It's not mathematicians kind of going back and forth. >> Exactly. >> About god knows what. >> But now, my favorite, another story about the good old Princeton Tigers. >> Yes. >> The best. This is actually from uh the Princeton Neuroscience Institute which is um the building where I did my senior thesis back in the day. Um I was I was a