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Biodiversity - Butterflies

A collection of articles about biodiversity and butterfly species

Corporate Labs and Academic Research

Corporate Labs and Academic Research

Brains - the benefits of bilingualism and learning foreign languages

Brains - the benefits of bilingualism and learning foreign languages

Physics ideas: what is Light?

Physics ideas: what is Light?

Double slit experiment - Multiverse theory and Quantum physics - Big Ideas in Physics

Double slit experiment - Multiverse theory and Quantum physics - Big Ideas in Physics

India - Moon, Mars Space Travel and Exploration

India - Moon, Mars Space Travel and Exploration

Brains - and music

Brains - and music

Cellular intelligence - biology and genetics

Cellular intelligence - biology and genetics

Starbase starships - SpaceX and Independent Space Travel

Starbase starships - SpaceX and Independent Space Travel

Split of Biodiversity and Evolution

Biodiversity and Evolution

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity Safety and Disposal

Nuclear Energy - big idea: using nuclear waste to generate electricity

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Lasik laser eye surgery

Lasik laser eye surgery

Academic Research - tools for literature review - references, citations

Academic Research - tools for literature review - references, citations

Academic Research - AI powered tools for literature review - visualization tools

Academic Research - AI powered tools for literature review - visualization tools

Academic Research - AI powered tools for literature review, and grant proposals

Academic Research - AI powered tools for literature review, and grant proposals

James Webb Telescope JWST - Science, Stars and Astronomy - images, new ideas

Images from James Webb Telescope JWST - measuring for the origin of Stars, universe, big bang

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Article

Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound - The Verge

Apple will release powerful hearing health features for the AirPods Pro 2 the week of October 28th. They include hearing aid functionality and a he... (2024)


Article

How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? | Scientific American

To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. But certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and oth... (2024)


Article

A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe - The New York Times

A stunning advancement in a long history of stargazing, the James Webb telescope reveals light where once we saw only darkness. Our view of the uni... (2023)


Article

Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science

Why trading fossils is good for science. The market for specimens should be regulated, not banned. A thriving market for fossils should lead to mo... (2023)


Article

"Ignoring the Possibility of Progress Is a Sure Method of Destroying Ourselves" – Interview with Physicist David Deutsch

Fly to the stars? Conquer the climate crisis? Mankind can solve all problems, argues British physicist David Deutsch. Progress, he says, is the key... (2022)


Article

Radical Research. Healthy Curiosity | The Economist

How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)


Article

Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them - Our World in Data

Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work? (2022)


Article

Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding - The Atlantic

A group of tech founders, crypto billionaires, and star scientists is launching a fleet of science labs. (2022)


Article

Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future | Niall Ferguson - The Spectator

The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)


Article

The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Of All Time

The most influential sci-fi books of all time examine humanity's longest-held hopes and deepest, most visceral fears. (2021)


Article

A World Without Sci-Hub – Palladium

Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all? This September marks the ten-year anniversary of Sci-... (2021)


Article

Big Bang: How We Are Trying to ‘Listen’ to It—and the New Physics It Could Unveil

The reward of being able to detect cosmological gravitational waves would be huge. Many phenomena in the early universe could have produced them. (2021)


Article

Bye, bye, little Susy - Supersymmetry | Science & technology - The Economist

Life, the universe and everything - Physics seeks the future (2021)


Article

In praise of physics - Fundamental physics is humanity’s most extraordinary achievement

It sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours | Leaders (2021)


Article

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real | Quanta Magazine

Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new pha... (2021)


Article

An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system | New Scientist

Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get near... (2021)


Article

Three myths about scientific peer review | Michael Nielsen

What’s the future of scientific peer review? The way science is communicated is currently changing rapidly, leading to speculation that the peer r... (2021)


Article

What We Learned Doing Fast Grants - Future

We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models. (2021)


Article

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter

Scientists have discovered a subatomic particle that can switch between matter and antimatter. This has big implications on how we look at the Univ... (2021)


Article

The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete - The Atlantic

The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. (2021)


Article

Scientists determine the origin of extra-solar object 'Oumuamua

In 2017, the first interstellar object from beyond our solar system was discovered via the Pan-STARRS astronomical observatory in Hawaii. It was na... (2021)


Article

Crazy New Ideas - Paul Graham essay

May 2021 "There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable pers... (2021)


Article

Opinion | Should we edit our children’s genes? Would it be cruel not to? - The New York Times

Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)


Article

Sci-hub: UK Police warn students to avoid science website - BBC News

Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk. The City of London police's Intellectual Pr... (2021)


Article

Incredible time-lapse shows a single cell transforming into a salamander

A filmmaker has captured mesmerizing and intimate details of an alpine newt's first days. (2019)


Article

What is relativity? Einstein's mind-bending theory explained

Albert Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, and GPS navigation and nuclear energy would be impossible without the equation e=mc2. (2021)


Article

What Was Einstein Talking About With His Theory of Relativity?

Einstein's theory of relativity is a famous theory, but it's little understood. Learn all about the concepts that make up the theory of relativity. (2021)


Article

Does Parkinson's Begin in the Gut?

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2021)


Article

The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age

Yep, brains are shrinking. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the average human brain size is shrinking. And we can’t blame reality T.V. or Twitter.... (2021)


Article

The farthest galaxy in the universe

A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an ancient galaxy. They deduced the target galaxy GN-z11 is not only the... (2020)


Video

Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED

AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)


Video

The Unanswered Questions of Space: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John Mather illuminates the universe's deepest mysteries. In this episode, we delve into the search for extrater... (2023)


Video

The Original Double Slit Experiment

Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the ques... (2023)


Video

Double Slit Experiment | Answers With Joe

The Double Slit Experiment started as a way to determine if light is a wave or a particle - but it uncovered mysteries that have baffled science to... (2023)


Video

Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?

Grounding is one of the most confusing and misunderstood aspects of the grid. (2023)


Video

The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeSign up for the mailing list to get episode notific... (2023)


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Black hole the size of 20 million suns speeding through space

Astronomers have discovered a runaway supermassive black hole, the size of 20 million suns, speeding through space.The discovery is the first obser... (2023)


Video

I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

Global warming: I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. (2023)


Video

The Absurd Search For Dark Matter - Veritasium

The Absurd Search For Dark Matter - Veritasium (2022)


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Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters

Why this Hydrogen Breakthrough Matters (2022)


Video

How Electricity Actually Works

How Electricity Actually Works (2022)


Video

David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific underst... (2022)


Video

Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer - TED

Why do people see the Virgin Mary on cheese sandwiches or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video, images and music, pro... (2022)


Video

NSF's merit review process determines which research has the greatest potential

NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support o... (2022)


Video

Critical Reasoning - Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8

The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as S... (2022)


Video

Why Gravity is NOT a Force

The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don't exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through ... (2021)


Video

The Big Misconception about Electricity

The Big Misconception about Electricity (2021)


Video

Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid

In this video I explain what flat earthers believe, why they believe it, and why I think scientists should take flat earthers more seriously.The CN... (2021)


Video

Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci

Where does quantum information go when it enters a black hole? Investigate the theories of the black hole information paradox. --Today, one of the ... (2021)


Video

Sam Harris and David Deutsch - remarks by Brett Hall

Some remarks about their second "Waking Up" podcast together.If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by c... (2021)


Video

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) How's it all gonna end? This experience ... (2021)


Video

Why former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is taking the highest-resolution snowflake photos ever

Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. We chat with him about why :-) ... (2020)


Video

How Did Our Ancestors Evolve? | Big History Project

All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)


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Why Human Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History 204

This week on Crash Course Big History, Emily is talking about process of human evolution, and the knack for innovation that has allowed humans to b... (2020)


Video

Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6

In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)


Video

Threshold 6: Humans and Collective Learning | Big History Project

About 200,000 years ago, man evolved to become the most important force for change on the Earth's surface. What makes us so different from other li... (2020)


Video

TED-Ed - Flatland

I was invited to collaborate with TED-Ed to create an animation to introduce the novella "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. I was responsible for all a... (2020)


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How We Proved An Asteroid Wiped Out The Dinosaurs | Big History Project

Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)


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DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10

Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)


Video

The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History #5

In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from sin... (2020)


Podcast

"Is Everything A Hallucination?" with Anil Seth - Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps on Spotify. When you see the colour blue, is it the same as when I see the ... (2023)


Podcast

64 - The Journey to the Big Bang - Why This Universe? | Podcast on Spotify

The Big Bang is well accepted today as the leading theory of how our universe evolved over time - but in today's episode, we talk through all the v... (2023)


Podcast

Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how dopamine dynamics — meaning changes and interactions between ou... (2023)


Podcast

David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race - Naval | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Naval on Spotify. Introduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23... (2023)


Podcast

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)


Podcast

The Peculiar Case Of Dark Matter : Short Wave : NPR

The universe is so much bigger than what people can see, and astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan is trying to figure out that which we can not see.... (2021)


Podcast

Exploring Mars To Better Understand Earth - On Point | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from On Point on Spotify. Was Mars once like Earth? Can you imagine the red planet once a verdant green? That might be stret... (2021)


Podcast

Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics [The Knowledge Project Ep. #108]

In this episode, Thomas and Shane discuss the origin of his passion for astrophysics, commercial spaceflight, exciting experiments going on at the ... (2021)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)


Podcast

The Science Behind Whakaari/White Island's Eruption : NPR

The volcano of Whakaari or White Island in New Zealand erupted just over a week ago. More than a dozen people were killed, including tourists to th... (2019)


Podcast

The World Is Constantly Running Out Of Helium. Here's Why It Matters - NPR

Helium is the second-most common element in the cosmos, but it's far rarer on planet Earth. As part of our celebration of the periodic table's 150t... (2019)


Podcast

Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' In Search Of More Productive Crops - NPR

Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, a foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger. They... (2019)


Podcast

NASA Scientist Says Wind, Flooding And Rainfall Increase The Intensity Of A Hurricane | WLRN

Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Re... (2018)


Podcast

Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost | NPR

Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and ... (2018)


Podcast

UFO investigations at the Pentagon, DOD | The New York Times

NY. Times | The Daily “There was military footage of unidentified flying objects that couldn’t be explained, and a decade of hidden funding in t... (2017)


Book

The Character of Consciousness

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundb... (2023)


Book

Mendeleyev's Dream

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he... (2023)


Book

The Electric State

NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of R... (2023)


Book

Being You - by Anil Seth

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financia... (2023)


Book

Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud

Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)


Book

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)


Book

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)


Website

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles,... (2023)


Website

Resource Library | National Geographic Education

a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (2019)


Website

Mystery Science: Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less ... (2018)


Website

Curious Kids – The Conversation – page 1

Browse Curious Kids news, research and analysis from The Conversation (2018)


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