Why Billions of Cicadas Are About to Emerge After 17 years
For the first time in 17 years, one of the largest broods of cicadas is about to swarm the Midwestern and Northeastern United States—here’s what you need to know.
How Green Fuel Could Change Your Flights Forever
Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, could help the airline industry meet ambitious emissions reduction targets in the coming years.
Chaos: The Science of the Butterfly Effect
Chaos theory means deterministic systems can be unpredictable.
A network of science: 150 years of Nature papers
Science is a network, each paper linking those that came before with those that followed. In an exclusive analysis, researchers have delved into Nature’s part of that network. We explore their results, taking you on a tour of 150 years of interconnected, interdisciplinary research, as represented by Nature’s publication record.
Carl Sagan On Alien Civilizations
Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations
5 Survival Tips With Bear Grylls | Hostile Planet
If you ever find yourself in a dangerous environment, one of these survival tips may just save your life!
How Would We Communicate with Alien Life? – with Carl Sagan
If life exists elsewhere in the Universe, would we be able to communicate with it? In this clip from the 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES «The planets», Carl Sagan demonstrates how we could send a signal that would make sense to intelligent beings that have evolved independently from us.
Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? – Sheila Marie Orfano
Explore Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “Divine Comedy,” a 3-part narrative that follows Dante’s journey for salvation through Hell.
2020’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science
For mathematicians and computer scientists, 2020 was full of discipline-spanning discoveries and celebrations of creativity. We’d like to take a moment to recognize some of these achievements.
Why you can’t compare Covid-19 vaccines
What a vaccine’s «efficacy rate» actually means.
What The COVID Vaccine Does To Your Body
Is the coronavirus vaccine safe? Now that the first COVID19 vaccine from Pfizer is being released, how do mRNA vaccines work?
Exploring M87’s Supermassive Black Hole | How the Universe Works
M87’s Supermassive Black Hole
Is our universe the only universe? – Brian Greene
Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the «multiverse.» Talk by Brian Greene.
A Better Way To Picture Atoms
This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender.