David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity ...

A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with ...

A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned ...

A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to s...

Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a bakin...

The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown math...

A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say...

A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between t...

A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians exp...

In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed co...

University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be exp...

In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Up...

In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing a...

In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higg...

James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicate...

Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study...

Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-T...

David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.

Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.

Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.

Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.

Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.