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Air Date: 2015-06-10
David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity ...
Air Date: 2015-06-11
A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with ...
Air Date: 2015-06-12
A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned ...
Air Date: 2015-06-15
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to s...
Air Date: 2015-06-16
Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a bakin...
Air Date: 2015-06-17
The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown math...
Air Date: 2015-06-19
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say...
Air Date: 2015-06-23
A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between t...
Air Date: 2015-06-24
A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians exp...
Air Date: 2015-07-02
In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed co...
Air Date: 2015-07-09
University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be exp...
Air Date: 2022-07-20
In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.
Air Date: 2015-07-21
Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Up...
Air Date: 2015-07-22
In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing a...
Air Date: 2015-08-17
In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higg...
Air Date: 2015-08-25
James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicate...
Air Date: 2015-09-18
Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study...
Air Date: 2015-09-23
Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-T...
Air Date: 2015-09-24
David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.
Air Date: 2015-10-23
Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.
Air Date: 2015-11-06
Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.
Air Date: 2015-11-20
Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.
Air Date: 2015-12-18
Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.