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TECHNOLOGIES are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a ... (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
AN HOUR’S drive from Brasília, Brazil’s capital, humped zebu cattle take refuge from the heat of the cerrado (tropical savannah) under neat rows of... (2018)
Conflicting research points to an immune reaction or indigestible carbs (2018)
Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)
The real story about “de-extinction”... The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1982. But now… scientists are trying to bring it BACK. A... (2025)
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)
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
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)
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)
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from sin... (2020)
What is dark energy? What is dark matter? Well, if we knew exactly we would have a nobel prize – we know that they exist though. So what do we know... (2020)
I get this question... a lot. "Since astronomers know that the Universe is expanding, what's it expanding into? What's outside of the Universe?" Th... (2020)
Time dilation and Einstein’s theory of relativity go hand in hand. Albert Einstein is the most popular physicist, as he formulated the theory of re... (2020)
3Blue1Brown 2.9M subscribers An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform... (2020)
PBS Space Time 2.01M subscribers Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! We actually have a pretty good idea of what might have happened bef... (2020)
PBS Space Time 2.01M subscribers Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring PBS DS. You can check out LastPass by going to https://lastpass.onelink.me/... (2020)
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)
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)
The volcano of Whakaari or White Island in New Zealand erupted just over a week ago. More than a dozen people were killed, including tourists to th... (2020)
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)
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)
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)
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge “Dazzling.” – Steven Pinker, The Guar... (2022)
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)
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)