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Biology
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Neurologist Richard Cytowic has spent decades studying synesthesia, the phenomenon where one sense involuntarily triggers another.
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Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets, we have found no evidence of other intelligent life.
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We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]
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Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.
Unlikely Collaborators
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“So many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, for sure, and certainly as a species.”
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We may be close to finding life beyond Earth. But would we even recognize it if we did? Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar explains what signs NASA is looking for.
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These microbes endured the unlivable. The NASA astrobiologist who studies them reveals what that means for us today
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"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
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How do scientists measure and define life in the natural world? Dr. Lee Cronin gives us a definition, in 4 minutes:
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“The physics of the universe doesn't predict the emergence of biology.” Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin explains how inanimate matter becomes evolutionary:
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”
John Templeton Foundation
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
John Templeton Foundation