Plastic waste is piling up, with projections estimating 25 billion tons by 2050—most of it ending up in landfills or the environment. Traditional mechanical recycling falls short, with only a tiny fraction of plastics truly recycled into similar products. This Town Talk challenges us to...
Natalie Shustova, University of South Carolina Photochromic materials are quietly woven into the fabric of our daily lives, yet they are also driving some of the most exciting frontiers in science and technology. One familiar example is transition lenses for glasses which darken in...
Presented by the Telluride Jewish Community Join us for the first film in our three-part summer series—open to all! The Ring is a comedy that explores love, loss, and rediscovery within an Israeli family. The film has earned critical acclaim and festival recognition, including a...
Josh Schaidle To enable secure, resilient, and domestic supply chains, Dr. Josh Schaidle and his colleagues of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado are pursuing innovative routes to diversify the feedstocks utilized in production of the fuels, chemicals, and materials that we use in...
It’s that time of year – when intriguing experiments with density, sublimation, acoustic integration, and even comestible colloids meet the finest in Telluride’s craft mixology scene during the Pinhead Institute’s annual Science of Cocktails fundraiser. Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, this ages 21+ party will feature...
Rohit Pappu, Washington University in St. Louis What are the unifying themes in neurodegeneration in the context of ALS and other dementias, success of heart transplantation, the onset and progression of an assortment of cancers, and stress responses of plants? In all these cases, the...
Guillermo AcunaFriborg University A scientific revolution is happening at the smallest of scales—one where we fold DNA, the molecule of life, into intricate nanoscale shapes. This field, called DNA origami, turns DNA into a programmable building material, allowing us to craft structures just billionths of a...
Telluride Science’s biggest fundraiser of the summer showcases a powerhouse panel for women on thriving through midlife and beyond. Fresh off her recent appearance with Oprah Winfrey and interviews on major podcasts like Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert and Mel Robbins, Dr. Mary Claire Haver—#1 New...
Kade Head-Marsden, University of Minnesota There is an exponential cost to obtaining molecular information pertinent to important processes such as catalysis, photosynthesis, and energy transfer and storage. While quantum computing showed early promise for reducing the scaling of these problems, practical realization of this promise...
Top Chef & Taste of Telluride serves up delicious food, creative cocktails, a chef competition, and more—all to support One to One Mentoring and its mission to empower local youth through trusted, caring relationships. Indulge in delectable dishes prepared by local chefs while enjoying the...
