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Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound - The Verge
Apple will release powerful hearing health features for the AirPods Pro 2 the week of October 28th. They include hearing aid functionality and a he... (2024)
How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? | Scientific American
To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. But certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and oth... (2024)
Big Bangalore Theory: Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
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)
A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe - The New York Times
A stunning advancement in a long history of stargazing, the James Webb telescope reveals light where once we saw only darkness. Our view of the uni... (2023)
Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science
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)
"Ignoring the Possibility of Progress Is a Sure Method of Destroying Ourselves" – Interview with Physicist David Deutsch
Fly to the stars? Conquer the climate crisis? Mankind can solve all problems, argues British physicist David Deutsch. Progress, he says, is the key... (2022)
Radical Research. Healthy Curiosity | The Economist
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)
Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them - Our World in Data
Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work? (2022)
Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding - The Atlantic
A group of tech founders, crypto billionaires, and star scientists is launching a fleet of science labs. (2022)
Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future | Niall Ferguson - The Spectator
The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)
The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Of All Time
The most influential sci-fi books of all time examine humanity's longest-held hopes and deepest, most visceral fears. (2021)
A World Without Sci-Hub – Palladium
Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all? This September marks the ten-year anniversary of Sci-... (2021)
Big Bang: How We Are Trying to ‘Listen’ to It—and the New Physics It Could Unveil
The reward of being able to detect cosmological gravitational waves would be huge. Many phenomena in the early universe could have produced them. (2021)
Bye, bye, little Susy - Supersymmetry | Science & technology - The Economist
Life, the universe and everything - Physics seeks the future (2021)
In praise of physics - Fundamental physics is humanity’s most extraordinary achievement
It sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours | Leaders (2021)
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real | Quanta Magazine
Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new pha... (2021)
An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system | New Scientist
Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get near... (2021)
Three myths about scientific peer review | Michael Nielsen
What’s the future of scientific peer review? The way science is communicated is currently changing rapidly, leading to speculation that the peer r... (2021)
What We Learned Doing Fast Grants - Future
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models. (2021)
Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter
Scientists have discovered a subatomic particle that can switch between matter and antimatter. This has big implications on how we look at the Univ... (2021)
The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete - The Atlantic
The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. (2021)
Crazy New Ideas - Paul Graham essay
May 2021 "There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable pers... (2021)
Sci-hub: UK Police warn students to avoid science website - BBC News
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk. The City of London police's Intellectual Pr... (2021)
Incredible time-lapse shows a single cell transforming into a salamander
A filmmaker has captured mesmerizing and intimate details of an alpine newt's first days. (2019)
What is relativity? Einstein's mind-bending theory explained
Albert Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, and GPS navigation and nuclear energy would be impossible without the equation e=mc2. (2021)
What Was Einstein Talking About With His Theory of Relativity?
Einstein's theory of relativity is a famous theory, but it's little understood. Learn all about the concepts that make up the theory of relativity. (2021)
Does Parkinson's Begin in the Gut?
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2021)
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age
Yep, brains are shrinking. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the average human brain size is shrinking. And we can’t blame reality T.V. or Twitter.... (2021)
COVID-19 Changed Science Forever
And what it lost in the process (2020)
Cameras and Lenses – how they work - by Bartosz Ciechanowski
Pictures have always been a meaningful part of the human experience. From the first cave drawings, to sketches and paintings, to modern photography... (2020)
Where Did the Periodic Table ACTUALLY Come From?
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)
Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John Mather illuminates the universe's deepest mysteries. In this episode, we delve into the search for extrater... (2023)
The Original Double Slit Experiment
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)
Double Slit Experiment | Answers With Joe
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)
Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?
Grounding is one of the most confusing and misunderstood aspects of the grid. (2023)
The Speed of Light is NOT About Light
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)
Black hole the size of 20 million suns speeding through space
Astronomers have discovered a runaway supermassive black hole, the size of 20 million suns, speeding through space.The discovery is the first obser... (2023)
I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.
Global warming: I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. (2023)
The Absurd Search For Dark Matter - Veritasium
The Absurd Search For Dark Matter - Veritasium (2022)
Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters
Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters (2022)
How Electricity Actually Works
How Electricity Actually Works (2022)
David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation
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's merit review process determines which research has the greatest potential
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)
Critical Reasoning - Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
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)
10 Things You have Heard and Re-told but are Completely False - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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)
Why Gravity is NOT a Force
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
The Big Misconception about Electricity (2021)
Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid
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)
Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci
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)
Sam Harris and David Deutsch - remarks by Brett Hall
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)
TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) How's it all gonna end? This experience ... (2021)
Why former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is taking the highest-resolution snowflake photos ever
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)
How Did Our Ancestors Evolve? | Big History Project
All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)
Why Human Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History 204
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)
Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6
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)
Threshold 6: Humans and Collective Learning | Big History Project
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)
TED-Ed - Flatland
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)
How We Proved An Asteroid Wiped Out The Dinosaurs | Big History Project
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)
DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10
Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)
"Is Everything A Hallucination?" with Anil Seth - Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps | Podcast on Spotify
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)
64 - The Journey to the Big Bang - Why This Universe? | Podcast on Spotify
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)
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how dopamine dynamics — meaning changes and interactions between ou... (2023)
David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race - Naval | Podcast on Spotify
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)
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify
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)
Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics [The Knowledge Project Ep. #108]
In this episode, Thomas and Shane discuss the origin of his passion for astrophysics, commercial spaceflight, exciting experiments going on at the ... (2021)
a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond
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)
Should We Dim the Skies to Save the World? Podcast Crazy/ Genius from The Atlantic on Spotify
Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound... (2018)
NASA Scientist Says Wind, Flooding And Rainfall Increase The Intensity Of A Hurricane | WLRN
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)
UFO investigations at the Pentagon, DOD | The New York Times
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)
A Mind For Numbers, by Barbara Oakley, PhD
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)
The Character of Consciousness
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)
Mendeleyev's Dream
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)
The Electric State
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)
Being You - by Anil Seth
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)
Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
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)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
"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
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles,... (2023)
Changing Seas TV - PBS
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)
Resource Library | National Geographic Education
a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (2019)
Mystery Science: Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.
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)
Curious Kids – The Conversation – page 1
Browse Curious Kids news, research and analysis from The Conversation (2018)