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Exploring the Warped Universe

Join physicist Nergis Mavalvala as she takes you on an astonishing journey from LIGO's humble origins to its historic discovery.

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Exploring Our Humanity

Lee Berger, an explorer and paleoanthropologist, is most known for discovering two human-like relatives, Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba.

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Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang

Paul Steinhardt, one of the most outspoken critics of the inflationary model, explains the other side of the inflation narrative. He contends that inflation is "immune" to experimentation, allowing for all potential outcomes and being unfalsifiable, and discusses a radical alternative to this long-held worldview.‎

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Einstein's Astrophysical Messengers

Gabriela González walks you through the experiments LIGO does to look for gravitational waves.

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Computational Language: A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram offers a new way to understand the natural world using models of simple programs and shares how computational language has the potential to impact the way humans and computers communicate in the future, with a focus on the increasing power of AI and machine learning.

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Brain Machine Interfaces

Explores how the brain encodes sensory and motor information.

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Big Brains, Small Brains

Pioneer Suzana Herculano-Houzel explains the obstacles and answers to comparing brain size and function across animals, as well as her pioneering discoveries regarding the human brain's uniqueness (or lack thereof).

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Accelerate, Collide, Detect

Discover particle accelerators, one of the most powerful instruments for studying particle physics, with Nobel Laureate Barry Barish, who led the creation of the International Linear Collider.

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A New Approach To The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

Sara Walker, an astrobiologist, questions our notion of life and how we could hunt for it in the universe by looking for indications of information-generating structures and using systems analysis.

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100 Years of Gravitational Waves

Rai Weiss, a Nobel laureate, is best known as one of the original designers of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Join him as he delves into the history of this incredible undertaking and the technologies that made it a reality.