World Science Festival
2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics Andrea Ghez talks with Brian Greene about the details of the long journey to discovering a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy and the technological adva...
Published: 10/28/2020
Max Tegmark, cosmologist and Professor of Physics at MIT, delivers a comprehensive look at the study of our universe, examining both the origin of our cosmos and the infinite questions waiting to be a...
Published: 10/27/2020
Pioneering neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis investigates how brains encode sensory and motor information. His groundbreaking work demonstrates that animals and humans can use their electrical brain act...
Published: 10/20/2020
Nobel Laureate Barry Barish and Brian Greene discuss the quickly-evolving world of gravitational waves detections—from the first detection on September 14, 2015 to its public announcement five months ...
Published: 10/14/2020
2020 Nobel Laureate astrophysicist Andrea Ghez describes her search for the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and the role of black holes in the formation and evolution of galaxi...
Published: 10/05/2020
What are scientists looking for when searching for alien life? Could alien life develop in unimaginable ways? Astronomer and the founding director of Harvard’s Origins of Life Initiative Dimitar Sasse...
Published: 10/02/2020
Particle physics is a vibrant field entering into a period of profound discoveries. Nobel Laureate Barry Barish explores particle physics and examines the future of particle accelerators for pushing t...
Published: 10/01/2020
In this World Science U Live Session, Nobel laureate, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and former President of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Harold Varmus, M.D. and Brian Greene discu...
Published: 09/28/2020
Join Brian Greene for a live conversation with Yale physics and astronomy professor Priyamvada Natarajan's. Priyamvada's latest research sheds new light on dark matter, with the potential to upend the...
Published: 09/16/2020
Theoretical cosmologist Michael Turner, who coined the term "dark energy,” explores how the combination of cosmology and particle physics will help us understand the origin and evolution of the univer...
Published: 09/15/2020
Has neuroscience all but disproved the existence of free will? Philosopher Alfred Mele argues that free will is still alive and well as he critically analyzes experimental data. #WorldSciU This lectu...
Published: 09/11/2020
Join Brian Greene on Tuesday, September 8 at 11am EDT for a live conversation with physicist and former LIGO spokesperson Gabriela González. They will discuss LIGO and Virgo's new announcement of the ...
Published: 09/08/2020
Gabriela González guides you through the ground-based experiments LIGO uses to search for gravitational waves. Learn about the detection process and what mysteries they hope to solve about our univers...
Published: 09/03/2020
The 2020 Kavli Prize In Nanoscience is awarded to Harald Rose, Ondrej Krivanek, Maximilian Haider, and Knut Urban for their work in sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron...
Published: 09/03/2020
The 2020 Kavli Prize In Neuroscience is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their transformative discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure. 2020 marks the twelfth anniversary ...
Published: 09/03/2020
The 2020 Kavli Prize In Astrophysics is awarded to Andrew Fabian for his groundbreaking research in the field of observational X-ray astronomy, covering a wide range of topics from gas flows in cluste...
Published: 09/03/2020
Physicist Brian Greene takes you on a visual and conceptual exploration of Einstein’s spectacular insights into space, time and energy. In just 11.5 hours, and with a bit of high school algebra, learn...
Published: 09/01/2020
Explore the challenges facing our oceans today, and why we should care. From industrial fishing to pollution to climate change, the damage to the seas risks becoming irreversible. Learn how we can sti...
Published: 08/26/2020
Join Brian Greene at 11am EDT for a live conversation with Harvard professor and 2017 Breakthrough prize winner in Fundamental Physics, Cumrun Vafa. They will discuss the past and future of string th...
Published: 08/21/2020
Acknowledging the scientists who blazed intellectual trails before him, Isaac Newton wrote: “If I have seen a little further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants.” In this special series, we ...
Published: 08/20/2020
On September 14, 2015, the LIGO gravitational wave detectors made the first confirmed detection of a gravitational wave. Join physicist Nergis Mavalvala as she takes you on an incredible journey from ...
Published: 08/18/2020
Explorer and paleoanthropologist Lee Berger is best known for his discoveries of Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba, two human-like ancestors. Join him on this exploration as he explains the scie...
Published: 08/12/2020
Join Brian Greene at 3pm in a live conversation with Nobel Laureate physicist Adam Riess. Brian and Adam will discuss the paradigm-shattering discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerat...
Published: 08/07/2020
Cumrun Vafa, together with fellow world-renowned string theorist Andrew Strominger, developed a new way to calculate black hole entropy in the language of string theory. Follow Vafa as he guides you t...
Published: 08/05/2020
Join Brian Greene, acclaimed physicist and author, in a visual and conceptual exploration of Einstein’s spectacular insights into space, time and energy. All the startling conclusions of special relat...
Published: 07/31/2020
How can we experimentally probe consciousness? Neuroscientist Christof Koch guides you through the research he conducts at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. #WorldSciU This lecture was recorded ...
Published: 07/31/2020
Nobel laureate Rai Weiss is best known as one of the original creators of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Join him as he explores the history of this amazing project an...
Published: 07/31/2020
With the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2013, the Standard Model came closer to being a complete theory. Maria Spiropulu, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, examines t...
Published: 07/31/2020
Nobel laureate Adam Riess walks you through his team’s incredible discovery of dark energy and our accelerating universe. Explore one of the biggest mysteries in modern cosmology. #WorldSciU This lec...
Published: 07/31/2020
Watch the reply of Brian Greene's first live WSU Q+A session where he took questions on a variety of subjects including relativity, quantum, the cosmos and his WSU course, Space, Time and Einstein.* ...
Published: 07/24/2020