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Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.
Algorithms dictate a lot more than your social media feeds. Here’s how to win back your agency.
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NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
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Frank Wilczek is celebrated for his investigations into the fundamental laws of nature that have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our Universe. In this video, the MIT […]
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Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky on the science of temptation, and the limitations of your brain’s frontal cortex.
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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Exercise culture is crazy. But what you need to do is exceedingly simple.
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The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.
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Only 2% of Alzheimer’s is 100% genetic. The rest is up to your daily habits.
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Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.
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Eugenics is bad – but understanding DNA is good.
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“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”
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Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
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Basic and breath-taking – Dr. Frank Wilczek addresses symmetry’s critical role in nature’s laws and what we consider to be beautiful.
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Is this video four minutes long? Not necessarily.
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Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
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Why are we here? What is everything made of? This theoretical physicist says science isn’t the right way to answer these questions.
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What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explores the potential particles of time and why we could, in theory, travel forward in time but not back.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Dr. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, who is questioning the very nature of life and how we’re attempting to find it elsewhere.
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Michio Kaku believes math is the mind of God.
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He’s written 7 books on happiness. He’s studied it for 30 years. He even taught it at Harvard. What can Tal Ben-Shahar tell you about really being happy?
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We’re wrong about what other people think – and that has harmful impacts on the next generation.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman shares what he learned by studying the brain waves of Olympic-level meditators, and his findings are unprecedented.
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Is social media changing your memory? Here’s what the science actually says.
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To understand the edges of our universe, we’ll need to explore the edges of our own philosophies.
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