#YourDailyEquation with Brian Greene offers brief and breezy discussions of the most pivotal equations of the ages. Even if your math is a bit rusty, these accessible and exciting stories …
A century after Einstein’s mathematics suggested the possibility of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is finally observing them. The project’s latest achievement is the first image of the …
The winners of the 2018 Kavli Prize In Nanoscience Are Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Virginijus Siksnys for pioneering work on Crispr-cas9. 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the prestigious …
With ever more refined techniques for measuring complex brain activity, scientists are challenging the understanding of thought, memory and emotion–what we have traditionally called “the self.”
Do we make conscious decisions? Or are all of our actions predetermined? And if we don’t have free will, are we responsible for what we do? Modern neurotechnology is now allowing scientists to study brain activity neuron by neuron to try to determine how and when our brains decide to act.
What happened to all of the universe’s antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an experiment to find out? In this program, particle physicists …