World Science Festival
Watch long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth. We gather great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, original films, lectures, and intimate salons, the World Science Festival takes science out of the laboratory and out into world.
The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit headquartered in New York City. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
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Join us for #YourDailyEquation with Brian Greene. Every weekday at 3pm EDT, Brian will offer brief and breezy discussions of pivotal equations. Even if your math is a bit rusty, tune in for accessible and exciting stories of nature and numbers that will allow you to see the universe in a new way.
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Join the live discussion tonight for the premiere of an all-new program. Are we alone in this vast universe? Some think that’s highly unlikely. With new technologies joining the search, NASA estimates we’ll find definitive evidence of aliens within 20 to 30 years. Which raises the vital question: And then what? Will the news inspire jubilation, despair, or fear? Will aliens be seen as gods or interlopers?
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Do you think the internet is broken? Have big tech companies gone too far, invading our privacy? What can we do to make our favorite social media platforms work for us and not just exploit our data? Join the live conversation tonight for the release of "Rethinking the Internet" @ 10 EST
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Join the conversation tonight: should we be editing human DNA with CRISPR?
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You've met matter: It's the stuff that makes up your body, your computer, your galaxy...you get the picture. But what about its opposite, antimatter? Every known matter particle has an antimatter partner, but as far as physicists can tell, matter dominates the universe, and no one knows why. Watch this animation, narrated by Brian Greene, to learn about the mystery of antimatter, and dive deeper with our full program "The Matter of Antimatter." https://youtu.be/qMMgsjnI1is
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It's an exciting day for the universe! Physicists with the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon. Watch Brian Greene explain the physics behind this amazing accomplishment here
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Scientists created the Event Horizon Telescope to take the first-ever picture of a black hole, and they're releasing their first results on Wednesday! Watch EHT Director Shep Doeleman and tune in later this week for more.
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Join the conversation tonight for the release of our latest full program. What if your brain at 77 were as plastic as it was at 7? What if you could learn Mandarin with the ease of a toddler or play Rachmaninoff without breaking a sweat? A growing understanding of neuroplasticity suggests these fantasies could one day become reality. Neuroplasticity may also be the key to solving diseases like Alzheimer’s, depression, and autism.
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Tune in tonight for the premiere of an all-new program. For most of human history, even minor injuries were potentially fatal—until antibiotics came along to keep pathogens away. But the bacteria are evolving faster than our weapons against them, making a post-antibiotic future even scarier than the pre-antibiotic past.
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“Success in creating effective A.I.,” said the late Stephen Hawking, “could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know.” Are we creating the instruments of our own destruction or exciting tools for our future survival? Once we teach a machine to learn on its own where do we draw moral and computational lines? Join the discussion tonight as leading specialists in A.I., neuroscience, and philosophy tackle the very questions that may define the future of humanity.
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