History Of Science

History Of Science

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30 years ago, we didn’t know other stars had planets orbiting them. Now, we may be on the verge of finding Earth’s Twin. Sara Seager explains.
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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 […]
A timeline diagram showing portraits of various scientists, documents, and equations connected by arrows, illustrating the historical development of quantum mechanics.
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“The messy reality of it is that all of these very smart people, including Isaac Newton, were talking to other people.”
A digitally rendered black hole with a dark center and a glowing, distorted ring of light surrounding it.
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"Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works? Well, I think so."
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“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
Illustration of three planets orbiting a star, with colored bands indicating the habitable zone; text reads "FINDING LIFE Habital Zone.
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"There's a long history of people claiming planets which look Earth-like, Earth 2.0, Earth twins."
Two luminous circles connected by a glowing blue wave on a dark background, creating a sense of energy and motion.
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"Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We're beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things."
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Physicist Sean Carroll on entropy, complexity, and the origins of life:
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Science writer George Musser on the unsung role of friendship in science’s biggest discoveries.
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A physicist discusses the boundaries of reality and experimentation.
Black and white illustration of circular, radiating patterns with one large labeled circle "A" showing a central orbit-like design among several smaller circles.
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Frank Wilczek is celebrated for his investigations into the fundamental laws of nature that have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our Universe. In this video, the MIT […]
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
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A black and white spiral clock with distorted numbers on a dark textured background, evoking the science of time and creating an illusion of time twisting inward.
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Is this video four minutes long? Not necessarily.
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Illustration of two hands touching or aligning a series of parallel lines and chevron patterns, all overlaid with a blue filter, evoking the precision and symmetry often found in mathematics.
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Michio Kaku believes math is the mind of God.
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James Gleick, the author of biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman, discusses what they and other geniuses have in common.
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