
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their 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.
Air Date: 2016-06-05
The multiverse hypothesis, suggesting that our universe is but one of perhaps infinitely many, speaks to the very nat...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
Ninety years after the historic double-slit experiment, the quantum revolution shows no sign of slowing. Join a vibra...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it reflects ...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
From a bee’s hexagonal honeycomb to the elliptical paths of planets, symmetry has long been recognized as a vital qua...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
A new generation of technology is revolutionizing neuroscience, allowing a closer study of the brain than had ever se...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
On September 14th, 2015, a ripple in the fabric of space, created by the violent collision of two distant black holes...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
Extra dimensions of space — the idea that we are immersed in hyperspace — may be key to explaining the fundamental na...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
What happened to all of the universe's antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an e...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
Scientists are now finally discovering what thinkers, musicians, or even any of us with a Spotify account and a set o...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the p...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched. You got a flu shot—but you’re sick in...
Air Date: 2016-06-05
You exist. You shouldn’t. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn’t. The nascent universe contained equal ...