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Jupiter’s moon Europa features a warm subterranean ocean covered in ice. For years, scientists have wondered if certain surface features are the re... (2017)
This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. (2017)
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. (2017)
Bacteria found on the outside of the International Space station could be alien life, according to a cosmonaut who has visited the satellite. Space... (2017)
YESTERDAY countries in the European Union gained an hour of Sunday, thanks to daylight saving time (DST). The biannual turning of the clocks—an hou... (2017)
The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to m... (2017)
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how... (2017)
A study of the famous animal’s bones suggests the conventional wisdom about how clones age is probably wrong. Dolly the sheep was the first anim... (2017)
Silicon carbide transistors could let landers survive for months rather than hours (2017)
Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee “About 50 years ago, the sugar industry stopped funding research that began to show something they wanted to... (2017)
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, from the University of Queensland's Brain Institute, was studying how honeybees avoid colliding in mid-air when he no... (2017)
Technology & Science - CBC News Astronomers say they've learned more about the first known object to enter our solar system from deep space, inc... (2017)
virtually explore the International Space Station - Google Maps (2017)
ESO, European Southern Observatory, 2017: ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128. A temperate Earth-sized planet h... (2017)
The Atlantic, 2017: "Astronomers have found a temperate world orbiting a star just 11 light-years away. Discovering an exoplanet isn’t what it ... (2017)
Bloomberg, 2017: "Its reputation as a leader on climate change is not entirely deserved. Germany is widely seen as a world leader in the fight ... (2017)
National Geographic, 2017: “To understand how animals see, look through their eyes. “If you ask people what animal eyes are used for, they’ll s... (2016)
- Issue 54: The Unspoken - Nautilus, 2017: "Modern physics has taught us that mass is not an intrinsic property. Now comes the shock. In the ... (2017)
Atlas Obscura, 2017: "A Woman Who Spent Her Life Observing the Sun Is Finally Getting Scientific Recognition. Hisako Koyama is being lauded for ... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: "Drinking alcohol, even modest amounts, increases the risk of breast cancer and other cancers. (2017)
Nature Magazine, 2017: "US Environmental Protection Agency will allow release of insects in 20 states and Washington DC. The US Environmental P... (2017)
The Atlantic, 2017: "As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish f... (2017)
- associated with longer operating times, higher cost A Stanford study of nearly 24,000 patients with kidney cancer concluded that robot-assiste... (2017)
MIT press, "Spreading the Tools of Theory", by David Kaiser, Kenji Ito and Karl Hall: "Historians and sociologists have highlighted the importance ... (2017)
Science, 2017: “The controversial question of whether machines may ever be conscious must be based on a careful consideration of how consciousness... (2017)
A NASA researcher proposed the idea back in 1971. The lava tunnels of the moon, like the mythical canals of Mars, have proved elusive — until now. (2017)
Contrary to popular belief, the human genome was never completely sequenced. Some scientists say those gaps may play a role in diseases such as can... (2017)
Do social pressures cause the evolution of big brains? The debate is ongoing...Why are humans so smart? We must have evolved in an environment that... (2017)
A new study elucidating the mechanisms by which blood glucose fuels tumors is not the kind of science on which to build a diet. (2017)
Matter – Medium, 2013: "Autism changed Henry Markram’s family. Now his Intense World theory could transform our understanding of the condition. (2013)
TED ED, Erez Garty, In 1997, Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos set up for a 35 meter free kick with no direct line to the goal. Carlos’s... (2017)
Bill Gates and Washington State Teacher of the Year Camille Jones shars an engineering lesson (2017)
Bill Gates, 2017: "In every part of the world, people are living longer than they used to. The longer you live, the more likely you are to develop... (2017)
TED: Tyler DeWitt (2017)
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)
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)
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)
The universe is so much bigger than what people can see, and astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan is trying to figure out that which we can not see.... (2021)
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)
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)
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... (2019)
Helium is the second-most common element in the cosmos, but it's far rarer on planet Earth. As part of our celebration of the periodic table's 150t... (2019)
Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, a foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger. They... (2019)
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)
Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and ... (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)
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)
a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (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)