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- 1. What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.CCJun 10, 2015
- 2. Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.CCJun 11, 2015
- 3. Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms ChaosA video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.CCJun 12, 2015
- 4. Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number TheoristA video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.CCJun 15, 2015
- 5. Where Did the Universe Come From?Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.CCJun 16, 2015
- 6. Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star RisesThe opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.CCJun 17, 2015
- 7. Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard MusicA video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”CCJun 19, 2015
- 8. Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract SurfacesA video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.CCJun 23, 2015
- 9. Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the ImpossibleA video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.CCJun 24, 2015
- 10. Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed cows and an infinite number of two-headed cows. What happens to the ratio?”CCJul 2, 2015
- 11. Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a MultiverseUniversity College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.CCJul 9, 2015
- 12. How Did Life Begin on Earth?In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.CCJul 20, 2022
- 13. Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit FliesBenjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.CCJul 21, 2015
- 14. Why Do Flies Walk This Way?In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing at the Y’s vertex whether to walk left or right. This array of Y-mazes allows researchers to track individual behavior in many flies simultaneously.CCJul 22, 2015
- 15. How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s LawsIn this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.CCAug 17, 2015
- 16. James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark MatterJames Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.CCAug 25, 2015
- 17. Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest PartnershipsNancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.CCSep 18, 2015
- 18. Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future PhysicsNima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.CCSep 23, 2015
- 19. What Is a Species?David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.CCSep 24, 2015
- 20. Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of GravityGabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.CCOct 23, 2015
- 21. Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at WaspsJoan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.CCNov 6, 2015
- 22. Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of LifeChristoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.CCNov 20, 2015
- 23. Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.CCDec 18, 2015
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