The universe revealed by observations is spectacularly simple: spatially flat, with nearly scale-invariant fluctuations. Nevertheless, there are major puzzles: What happened at the singularity? What are the…
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With a one in a million chance of meeting one of only 6,000 astrophysicists in the world, audience members were lined up in order to have the…
Nobel Laureate John Mather and Nat Geo Explorer Robert Ballard discuss how technology expands the limits of the known universe. Among the most accomplished and well known…
Marcus Chown is a science writer, and he is constantly amazed at how much stranger science is than science fiction; how much weirder the Universe we find…
Life is extreme chemical complexity, and knowing that life-forming chemicals are widespread in the universe, it may be posited that the universe, if the conditions are right,…
Science fiction portrays our Milky Way Galaxy as filled with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar trade and conflict. Back in our real universe,…
Renate Loll from Utrecht University’s Institute for Theoretical Physics delivers a lecture on Searching for the Quantum Origins of Space and Time. The expansion of the universe…
What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe? Dr. Michio Kaku explores how physicists may shrink the science of the…
Ever ponder the mysteries of the universe? Join Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson for a casual conversation about stars, planets, the universe, and beyond….
In this University of Southern California program, Robert Kuhn hosts a group of distinguished panelists in a discussion of what may lie beyond our world. Humans have…
When the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a firestorm led…
