Summaries of World Science Festival Videos 📚

Pioneer In Science: Mary-Claire King

What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant?

Are We Living in a Simulation?

Order out of Chaos: Ant Communication

Your Daily Equation #28: Einstein, The Big Bang, and the Expansion of the Universe

Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future

AI: Grappling with a New Kind of Intelligence

The Dreaming Pen: From Lucid Dreams to Waking Art

Understanding Monkey Talk

Ending the Epidemic: Science Advances on AIDS

The Moth: Chasing My Memories - Lucy Hawking

Moving Clocks Tick Off Time Slowly

Quantum Physics Is Everywhere: A Quantum Comedy

Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang

2020 Kavli Prize Winners – ASTROPHYSICS: Andrew Fabian

Physics in the Dark: Searching for Missing Matter

Can I Catch Face Blindness?

Watch Paralympian Jennifer French Stand Again Thanks to Bionic Implants

Genius: Striking Out a New Path

The "Monty Hall Problem"

Psycholinguist Steven Pinker Outlines Unique Human Traits

Your Daily Equation #20: 1,000,000,001 - 1,000,000,000 = 1

The Democratic System in Our Heads

The Smell of Green Thunder: How Does Synesthesia Differ from Hallucination?

Your Daily Equation #15: The Planck Length - Why String Theory is Hard to Test

Why Einstein Wanted To Unify

Quantum Computing - The Qubit Technology Revolution

The History of Gravity

Alien Contact: What Happens Next?

Go Figure: Predicting the World with Math

Cool Jobs: Aquatic Biologist, Pamela Schaller

Your Daily Equation #12: The Schrödinger Equation--the Core of Quantum Mechanics

Two Minds in One Brain

Cartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome

Can You Beat The Human Calculator?

Cumrun Vafa: On The Shoulders of Giants

Building a Better Spyglass

The Moth: Man on the Moon - Nathan Englander

How fast does time slow?

If We Could Cure Hallucinations, Should We?

Spotlight: Life without Cryptography

What is Synesthesia?

Unpacking the Complexity of the Einstein Equations

All Creatures Great and Smart

How Einstein Reset All Our Clocks

The Moth: Suffering for Science by Frank Wilczek

WSU:Accelerate, Collide, Detect with Barry Barish

Edward Witten: On the Shoulders of Giants

Personalized Medicine: Do You Want to Know?

How Good Is Your Memory Recall?

Could Genetic Engineering Lead to Super Armies?

Tracing DNA From The First Americans

He Jiankui and the World's First Gene-edited Babies

The Moth - Michael Moss: It's All Relative

The Stranger You've Become

Mind Your Language: Thought, Metaphor and Imagination

Coding the Cosmos: Does Reality Emerge From Simple Computations?

A Matter of Time

Brian Greene on the first-ever image of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope

The Perfect Gravitational Wave

What happens when Black Holes Collide

The Dark Side Of The Universe

How the Human Ear Works

Cool Jobs: Marine Biologist, Marah Hardt

Pioneer in Science: Dr. Nora Volkow

Gödel's Lasting Legacy

Steven Weinberg: On The Shoulders Of Giants

The Ethics of Drinking Coffee Vs. Zapping the Brain

The Border Between Brain Treatment and Brain Enhancement

Harnessing Quantum Computers

Tiny Ghosts: Rapping the History of the Neutrino

Getting Sleep in the Wild

Godel's Lasting Legacy

Hearing Yourself Hear

The Televised Book, Or the Real Web 1.0

Did Albert Einstein believe in God?

Checkmate: How Computer Chess Changed The World

Pioneer In Science: Elaine Fuchs - Going Forward in Reverse

How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds

The Illusion of Speech

Misunderstood Geniuses: William Harvey

How Do Different Cultures Think About Time?

Your Daily Equation #26: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: The Essential Idea

The Fatal Cost of Developing the Wingsuit

Music With Rhythm Makes Your Brain Think Your Body is Moving

The Fiction in Our Identity

WSU: Space, Time, and Einstein with Brian Greene

What is Sexual Orientation?

Longevity Science: Same Goal, Different Emphasis

First Images: James Webb Space Telescope’s New View of the Cosmos

Why Can't We Agree About Scientific Facts? The Psychology of Differing World Views

Ending the Epidemic - Voices of the AIDS Crisis - A Look Back

The Future of Augmented Intelligence: If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em

Apollo 11: What It Takes to Boldly Go

Brian Greene with NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Decoding the Brain

The Social Neuron

The Priorities of Practical Science

Why We Prevailed: Evolution and the Battle for Dominance

Beyond Einstein: Gravitational Rainbows

The Doctor's Robot Will See You Now

The Road to General Relativity Nov. 18th, 1915

Creating Consciousness

Cool Jobs: Amphibian Biologist, Tyrone Haye

Spinning Spider Yarns

AI and the Art of Ingenuity: Computational Creativity

John Nash: A Beautiful Mind

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bayes' Theorem But Were Afraid To Ask.

Science and Story: The Write Angle

Meet the Father of the Internet: Vinton Cerf

I See a Darkness: Perlmutter on Discovering Dark Energy

Is Google Making Us Smarter?

2020 Breakthrough Prize Winner Shep Doeleman—How EHT Imaged a Black Hole

Genetics: It's Written On Your Face

The Search for Life in the Universe

This is Your Brain On Neuroprosthetics

Coping with Face Blindness

The Faint Echoes of Memory

How Special Are Humans?

The Future of Food

Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement

Building New Particle Accelerators

Hawking Radiation and Particle Pairs Near a Black Hole

Science In The International Space Station

Darkness Visible: Shedding New Light on Black Holes

The Nuts and Bolts of Better Brains: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity

The Moth: Making It - Erich Jarvis

WSU Master Class: Universe or Multiverse? with Andrei Linde

Meeting in Andromeda: How Time Dilation Can Get Weird

What Can't We Predict With Math?

The Technology of Writing: From Stone Tablets to Tablet Devices

Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality

Surviving the Journey to Mars

Big Break for COBE: the Cosmic Background Explorer

Transparent Brain: Visible Thoughts

Editing Our DNA with CRISPR: The Promise and Peril of Rewriting Life

Game Change – CRISPR's Brave New World

What is Music Therapy?

Jonathan Coulton on Science, Crying, and Comic Books

How Do Motion and Gravity Affect Time?

Your Daily Equation #14: Quantum Entanglement or Einstein's Spooky Action

What is BiP A and how does it work?

Your Daily Equation #1: E = mc2

Could Video Games Be the Future of Storytelling?

The Science of Extreme Behavior: The Line Between Courageous and Crazy

Searching for WIMP Dark Matter

Will Self-Taught, A.I. Powered Robots Be the End of Us?

A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram

Portraits of Perception with Chuck Close

Einstein In Heels And On The Red Carpet

The Ingredients For Alien Life

Spirituality and Music in Adversity

Space Heroines

WSU: The Accelerating Universe with Adam Riess

Stewards of the Earth: Hope for our Planet

Are We Ready for Designer Babies?

Quick: What's 78,269 x 78,269?

2020 The Kavli Prize Announcement, Hosted by Brian Greene

What Bonobos Can Teach Us

Science in Focus. The Kavli Prize 2020 | Astrophysics

The Mystery of Religion Comes From Science

Your Daily Equation #5: 1=.9999...

Exoplanets: The Search for New Worlds

WSU Master Class: New Ideas About Dark Matter with Justin Khoury

The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance

Epic Stories of Genius: Science on Stage and Screen

Cool Jobs: Alien Hunter, Jill Tarter

Modern MacGyver: The Lunch Pail Stove

Cool Jobs: Archaeologists, Hannah Morris and Becca Peixotto

Mind Control: Introducing BrainGate

Your Daily Equation #18: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: Math not Meth

Real-life 'Batman' Daniel Kish Demonstrates Human Echolocation

Our Mathematical Universe: Brian Greene & Max Tegmark

Raphael Bousso Strives To Get Rid of Infinity

Say We Don’t Have Free Will—Does It Matter?

Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes

Was the Big Bang the Beginning? Reimagining Time in a Cyclic Universe

Riddles of Reality: From Quarks to the Cosmos

The Moth: Since NASA Wouldn't Send Me by Richard Garriott

Brian Greene Hosts: Reality Since Einstein

Time Is of the Essence… or Is It?

Pioneer in Science: John Grunsfeld

Brian Greene and Alan Alda Discuss Why Einstein Hated Quantum Mechanics

Modern MacGyver: The Camel Fridge

How Long Until We Find Alien Life?

Creating Universes with Digital Bits

WSU Master Class: Synthetic Biology’s Industrial Revolution with Drew Endy

The Technology That Transforms Us: From the Stone Age to the Computer Age

2020 Kavli Prize Winners – NEUROSCIENCE: Harald Rose and Ondrej Krivanek

Brian Greene Introduces the Theory of General Relativity

Ripples From The Big Bang: Listening to the Beginning of Time

The Moth: You Can Lead a Horse to Water - Sam Shepard

Cancer: The Future of a Cure

The Richness of Time

Finding the Telltale Genome

Lawrence Krauss on the Universes "Baby Pictures"

Debate of Current Theories in Quantum Mechanics

Robot Whiskers

Revealing the Cosmos: A Startling New View from the James Webb Space Telescope

Your Daily Equation #3: Lorentz Contraction

Interpreting Animal Dreams

Brave New Prehistoric World

‘Still Alice’ Advisor Talks About On-screen Portrayal of Alzheimer’s

In a Coma, Do We Cease to Exist?

Can a Plant Remember?

The Next Quantum Leap: Here, There, and Everywhere

Your Daily Equation #30: What Sparked the Big Bang?

Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics

Astronaut Diary: Life in Space

End of World in 2012? Mayan "Doomsday" Calendar Explained by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

WSU: 100 Years of Gravitational Waves with Rai Weiss

Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature

The Context and Perception of Music

Ian Waterman's Missing Body

Infinity: The Science of Endless

Is Genetically Modified Food Safe?

A Worldwide Standard of Care

What is the Social Network Effect?

Can Neutrinos Move Faster Than the Speed of Light?

The Moth: It Took a Village - Michael Turner

Doggone Devious

The Moth - Danielle Ofri: It's All Relative

Excerpt from Awakening the Mind: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Pioneers in Science: Ellen Stofan

How Is A Mathematician’s Work Done?

The Deep: Exploring Earth’s Last Frontier

Would the Death Star's superlaser actually work?

Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Travel

Evolution Beyond Earth

The Trolley Problem Explained

Robert Woodrow Wilson: Tuning in to the Big Bang

World Science Festival: Reimagining Science 365 Days A Year

Measuring the Universe

WSU Master Class: Mathematics, The Language of Nature with Edward Frenkel Course

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat Mind?

Where Ideas Meet Technology

The Cost of 2-D Coding

Oliver Sacks: A Tale of Awakenings

The Road to General Relativity Nov. 25th, 1915

The Great Pheromone Debate

NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness

Dr. James Watson on Searching for the Cure for Cancer

The Moth: The Long Ukranian Winters - Roald Hoffmann

Diagnosing Breast Cancer With AI

The Invisible Reality: The Wonderful Weirdness of the Quantum World

E.O. Wilson: On The Shoulders of Giants

Love and the Opportunistic Brain

Splicing and Dicing DNA: Genome Engineering and the CRISPR Revolution

Wavelengths from the Sky

Disordered Minds:Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, John Keats, Emily Dickinson

Your Daily Equation #4: Relativity of Simultaneity

Cool Jobs: Cave Microbiologist, Hazel Barton

2018 Kavli Prize Announcement Program

Global Location Made Easy

What is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology. | A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse

Cool Jobs:Andre Fenton

Excerpt from Awakening the Mind: Searching for Indigo

Uncovering The Genetic Roots Of African-Americans

James Cameron's DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D

Is Sexuality a Choice?

Bursting Inflation Theory's Bubble

Your Daily Equation #27: Curvature and Parallel Motion

Why do Two Genetically Identical Mice Look Vastly Different?

How Much Do You Really Want to Know About How You Will Die?

Is a Brain Upload Possible? Max Tegmark on Whole Brain Emulation

Pioneer In Science: Eric Lander - The Genesis of Genius

What is the Holographic Principle?

The Moth: Career vs. Biological Clock - Tricia Rose Burt

The Moth - Ellen Stofan: It's All Relative

WS CONNECT Q & A with Mark Van Raamsdonk

Your Daily Equation #7: Relativistic Velocity Combination

The Genetic Insurance Game

Why Science Literacy Matters

Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks

Steve Maguire Answers "What is Time?"

The Mathemagician

Are the Four Forces Symmetric?

What Is Information?

The Moth: The Imperfect Offering - Richard Matthew

The Hunt for Supermassive Black Holes | A Conversation with Andrea Ghez

Madness and Creativity: Is the Science There?

How Color Tricks The Eye And Brain

The Past and Future of Life and the Cosmos

Meet Scott McVay, Pioneer in Arctic Exploration

Experimentalist Vs. Theorist on Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

WSU: Oceans in Peril with Sylvia Earle

Leon Lederman - WSF's First "Pioneer in Science"

Oceans: Inspiring Fear And Stewardship

The Enigma Machine Explained

How Do You Observe a Black Hole?

Long Term Longevity in Flies Could Unlock Human Secrets

The Early Universe: Flat, Clumpy, and Same

Visual Illusions: Catching the Brain Creating Reality

The Genius of Einstein: The Science, His Brain, the Man

Congress Versus the Collider

The Extent Which Perception is Involved In Our Understanding of Objectivity

The Curious Case of Kenneth Parks

Brian Greene and Sir Roger Penrose: World Science U Q+A Session

Can superfluid be the link to understanding dark matter?

Astronaut Diaries: What's on the Menu?

The Moth: With a Little Help From My Dad - Paul Hoffman

Coming to Grips With Gravity

Pioneer In Science: Martin Rees

The Dark Horses of Dark Matter

Cool Jobs: NASA Astrophysicist, Amber Straughn

Time Dilation: Moving Clocks Tick Slower

Selecting the Right Crew for a Mars Mission

2021 Nobel Laureates Ardem Patapoutian and David Julius in conversation with Brian Greene.

Testing Face Blindness

Your Daily Equation #11: Euler's Identity or The Most Beautiful of all Equations

Pandemic: Lessons Learned

Adventures Inside an Acorn

Your Daily Equation #17: Planetary Orbits: Kepler, Newton, and Gravity

Pioneers In Science: Aprille J. Ericsson

How does speed affect space?

A Painting is a Kind of Line

Rewriting the Story of Humankind

Decoding the Visual Field

Shedding New Light On Dark Matter: Brian Greene and Priyamvada Natarajan