Watch long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth. We gather great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, original films, lectures, and intimate salons, the World Science Festival takes science out of the laboratory and out into world. The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit headquartered in New York City. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
20/12/2019
Eyes In the Skies: Bringing the Universe Down to Earth
17/12/2019
TESS and the Search For Exoplanets
12/12/2019
Exploring the Universe to Understand Ourselves
10/12/2019
Monitoring Human Impact on Earth with Landsat 8
06/12/2019
The Technology That Transforms Us: From the Stone Age to the Computer Age
04/12/2019
The Longest-used Tool in Human History
28/11/2019
The Future of Ingestible and Implantable Technologies
26/11/2019
Can Technology Extend Our Minds?
22/11/2019
To Be or Not to Be Bionic: On Immortality and Superhumanism
19/11/2019
Why We Have an Emotional Connection to Robots
14/11/2019
Is a Brain Upload Possible? Max Tegmark on Whole Brain Emulation
12/11/2019
Exploring the Uncanny Valley of Robotics
08/11/2019
Intelligence Without Brains
06/11/2019
What is Slime Mold and is it Intelligent?
31/10/2019
The Roots of Exploring Plant Intelligence
29/10/2019
Can a Plant Remember?
25/10/2019
CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering
23/10/2019
The New World of Human Genetic Engineering
18/10/2019
He Jiankui and the World's First Gene-edited Babies
16/10/2019
A Brief History of Gene Editing
11/10/2019
Physics in the Dark: Searching for Missing Matter
09/10/2019
Why Do Galaxies Rotate?
03/10/2019
How Much Dark Matter Exists in the Universe?
01/10/2019
Searching for WIMP Dark Matter
27/09/2019
The Reality of Reality: A Tale of Five Senses
25/09/2019
Andrew Strominger: Solving the Puzzle of Black Holes
25/09/2019
What Is Our Greatest Need?
18/09/2019
The Rubber Hand Illusion
16/09/2019
How Has Evolution Shaped Our Perception of Reality?
13/09/2019
Can We 'Cure' Deafness and Blindness? Should We?
11/09/2019
Marlee Matlin on Cochlear Implants and Deaf Culture
06/09/2019
2020 Breakthrough Prize Winner Shep Doeleman?How EHT Imaged a Black Hole
05/09/2019
Improving Cochlear Implants and Electronic Hearing
03/09/2019
Real-life 'Batman' Daniel Kish Demonstrates Human Echolocation
30/08/2019
The Science of Extreme Behavior: The Line Between Courageous and Crazy
29/08/2019
The Natural Risks of Boldness vs. Shyness
28/08/2019
Subway Hero Chad Lindsey on Jumping Into Harm's Way
22/08/2019
Does Altruism Exist?
21/08/2019
The Fatal Cost of Developing the Wingsuit
16/08/2019
Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics
14/08/2019
Defining Psychedelic Drugs
08/08/2019
Can A.I. Simulate a Visual Hallucinatory Experience?
06/08/2019
Psychedelics and the History of LSD
02/08/2019
Loose Ends: String Theory and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
31/07/2019
What is the Black Hole Information Paradox?
25/07/2019
What is String Theory?
23/07/2019
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory
19/07/2019
Apollo 11: What It Takes to Boldly Go
18/07/2019
What Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Feared Most
17/07/2019
Blue Origin's Vision to Send Millions of People to Space
16/07/2019
The Eye-opening Perspective Shift from Space Travel
15/07/2019
Happy 101st Birthday to the World's Top Expert On Memory
12/07/2019
Michael Collins Recalls the View of Earth From the Moon
11/07/2019
What It Takes to Boldly Go
11/06/2019
The woman who turns brains into soup: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
31/05/2019
The Believing Brain: Evolution, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Instinct
29/05/2019
Brian Greene on the 100th Anniversary of the Eclipse that Proved Einstein Right
21/05/2019
How to imagine an infinite number of universes?
20/05/2019
Pioneers in Science: Gabriela González English
17/05/2019
Alien Contact: What Happens Next?
09/05/2019
Why Can't We Agree About Scientific Facts? The Psychology of Differing World Views
06/05/2019
Pioneers In Science: Jane Lubchenco
03/05/2019
Rethinking the Internet: How We Lost Control and How to Take it Back
01/05/2019
What is the Connectome? Mapping Neurons in the Brain
26/04/2019
How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
22/04/2019
Sylvia Earle: On the Shoulders of Giants
19/04/2019
Editing Our DNA with CRISPR: The Promise and Peril of Rewriting Life
16/04/2019
What is Antimatter?
13/04/2019
Solving the Puzzle of Black Holes: Hawking, Entropy, and a Theory of Everything
12/04/2019
How Do You Detect a Black Hole? LIGO and the Measurement of Gravitational Waves
11/04/2019
Shep Doeleman Photographs a Black Hole
10/04/2019
Brian Greene on the first-ever image of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope
05/04/2019
How Do You Observe a Black Hole?
29/03/2019
Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
26/03/2019
Pioneers In Science: Alvaro Pascual-Leone
22/03/2019
The Nuts and Bolts of Better Brains: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity
15/03/2019
Battling the Superbugs: The Future of Fighting Infections
08/03/2019
Will Self-Taught, A.I. Powered Robots Be the End of Us?
01/03/2019
Black Holes and Neutron Stars: A Merger in Space
22/02/2019
Is Alien ?Life? Weirder Than We Imagine: Who Is Out There?
15/02/2019
The Roots of Extremism in Your Brain
12/02/2019
Pioneers In Science: Jo Handelsman
08/02/2019
The Vital Cells of Existence: The Science of Your Microbiome
01/02/2019
Pioneers In Science: Aprille J. Ericsson
18/01/2019
Science in the Hands of Scientists: The Meandering Path Toward Truth
17/01/2019
Nanotechnology?s Promise: A Big Risk in a Small Package?
11/01/2019
Growing Up Digital: Life in A World of Networks and Screens
07/01/2019
Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
