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India could become a major scientific power, if the government got out of the way, and his private sector stepped up. The government needs to get ... (2024)
Why trading fossils is good for science. The market for specimens should be regulated, not banned. A thriving market for fossils should lead to mo... (2023)
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)
Life, the universe and everything - Physics seeks the future (2021)
It sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours | Leaders (2021)
Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)
Our eyes are special detectors. They allow us to register information not only from across the room but from across the universe. Without vision, t... (2020)
A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable. (2020)
Things ought not to go back to the way they were before (2020)
New simulations explain how the ringed planet ended up with one giant moon that domineers its tinier siblings. (2020)
Johnson & Johnson’s chief scientist describes nonprofit partnership to accelerate its candidate Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the... (2020)
And we might even get answers soon (2020)
Tiny proteins help power muscles and provide the toxic punch to many venoms (2019)
PARADIGM SHIFT is an overused term. Properly, it refers to a radical change of perspective on a topic, such as the move from the physics of Newton ... (2019)
FOR THE past four billion years or so the only way for life on Earth to produce a sequence of DNA—a gene—was by copying a sequence it already had t... (2019)
As a threat to wildlife, an amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known to science.” (2019)
How Elizabeth Hargrave turned a passion for ornithology and spreadsheets into a popular game about birds. (2019)
Exploring the cosmos - SENDING PEOPLE to Mars is a daunting prospect. It would take astronauts at least nine months to get there, they might sp... (2019)
Two European entrepreneurs want to remove carbon from the air at prices cheap enough to matter. (2019)
Extending the genetic code THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like an... (2019)
A very brief introduction to modern science fiction from the People’s Republic of China. (2019)
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a findi... (2019)
What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth? (2018)
FOR decades scientists have warned that rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels risk adversely affec... (2018)
Exploring the future beyond cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir. Writers and filmmakers are imagining the future in weird and wonderful new ways. (2018)
SpaceIL, a privately funded Israeli non-profit, will attempt to land a small spacecraft on the Moon in early 2019. (2018)
A planet-spanning virtual observatory, years in the making, could change how we think about space, time and the nature of reality. Will it work? (2018)
Scientists showed that plants are much less passive than they seem by revealing the secret workings of their threat communication systems. (2018)
DIYers used a security flaw to bypass the $8.3 billion insulin delivery business with a cobbled-together artificial pancreas. (2018)
<p><em>[I am not a sleep specialist. Please consult with one before making any drastic changes or trying to treat anything serious.]</em></p> <p>.... (2018)
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
The periodic table is probably the most iconic image in science. Join me to hear the story about its origins, from ancient philosophers speculating... (2025)
Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John Mather illuminates the universe's deepest mysteries. In this episode, we delve into the search for extrater... (2023)
Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the ques... (2023)
The Double Slit Experiment started as a way to determine if light is a wave or a particle - but it uncovered mysteries that have baffled science to... (2023)
Grounding is one of the most confusing and misunderstood aspects of the grid. (2023)
Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeSign up for the mailing list to get episode notific... (2023)
Astronomers have discovered a runaway supermassive black hole, the size of 20 million suns, speeding through space.The discovery is the first obser... (2023)
Global warming: I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. (2023)
The Absurd Search For Dark Matter - Veritasium (2022)
Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters (2022)
How Electricity Actually Works (2022)
For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific underst... (2022)
NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support o... (2022)
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as S... (2022)
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains 10 things that we have heard all our life and re-told but are completely false. Other Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos-What ... (2022)
The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don't exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through ... (2021)
The Big Misconception about Electricity (2021)
In this video I explain what flat earthers believe, why they believe it, and why I think scientists should take flat earthers more seriously.The CN... (2021)
Where does quantum information go when it enters a black hole? Investigate the theories of the black hole information paradox. --Today, one of the ... (2021)
Some remarks about their second "Waking Up" podcast together.If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by c... (2021)
TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) How's it all gonna end? This experience ... (2021)
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. We chat with him about why :-) ... (2020)
All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)
This week on Crash Course Big History, Emily is talking about process of human evolution, and the knack for innovation that has allowed humans to b... (2020)
In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)
About 200,000 years ago, man evolved to become the most important force for change on the Earth's surface. What makes us so different from other li... (2020)
I was invited to collaborate with TED-Ed to create an animation to introduce the novella "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. I was responsible for all a... (2020)
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)
Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)
Listen to this episode from On Point on Spotify. Was Mars once like Earth? Can you imagine the red planet once a verdant green? That might be stret... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps on Spotify. When you see the colour blue, is it the same as when I see the ... (2023)
The Big Bang is well accepted today as the leading theory of how our universe evolved over time - but in today's episode, we talk through all the v... (2023)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how dopamine dynamics — meaning changes and interactions between ou... (2023)
Listen to this episode from Naval on Spotify. Introduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23... (2023)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
In this episode, Thomas and Shane discuss the origin of his passion for astrophysics, commercial spaceflight, exciting experiments going on at the ... (2021)
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)
Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound... (2018)
Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Re... (2018)
NY. Times | The Daily “There was military footage of unidentified flying objects that couldn’t be explained, and a decade of hidden funding in t... (2017)
The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill... (2025)
In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundb... (2023)
In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he... (2023)
NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of R... (2023)
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financia... (2023)
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)
a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (2019)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles,... (2023)
Now in its 10th Season, Changing Seas is a public television series produced by WPBT2 South Florida PBS in Miami, Florida. Since 2009, the series h... (2019)
Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less ... (2018)
Browse Curious Kids news, research and analysis from The Conversation (2018)