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The image is of the Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size planet in the so-called “habitable zone” around its star. View more from our roundup of some of the most interesting items this week.
If you weren’t around for the events of Apollo 13, you might have seen the film dramatization of it. But just how accurate was the Apollo 13 movie? We took a look at the evidence, and as it turns out, the movie scores pretty high on accuracy. But it is not completely without flaws.
When science writer Lydia Denworth’s son Alex was nearly two years old, doctors discovered that he had significant hearing loss that was only likely to get worse. Denworth was thrown into the nexus of scientific, cultural and political issues surrounding hearing. We sat down with Lydia Denworth...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
With a 3-D printer, all you need to create whatever you can imagine is plastic or metal alloy wire and a bit of time. Using a technique called “additive manufacturing,” a 3-D printer builds up layers of material into whatever knob, part, utensil, fashion accessory, or miniature you fancy. The...
America is facing an animal invasion on multiple fronts. These invaders aren’t looking to start a war—only to, make a home. But however benign their intentions might be, invasive species unfortunately pose threats to native species, and upset the balance of native ecosystems. Some are...
After flying a plane across the United States last summer using nothing but the sun for power, Swiss pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard have their eye on the whole enchilada. On Wednesday, April 9 they unveiled a solar-powered aircraft they believe will help them circumnavigate the globe...
Thank you to all our guests for helping make this year’s World Science Festival Gala a smashing success! This year we honored brilliant geneticist, Mary-Claire King, and Alan Alda was the host. We gathered some of the highlights from the celebration.
While dinosaurs might’ve ruled the earth millions of years ago, pterosaurs were ruling the skies at the same time. And these flying reptiles get the royal treatment in the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit “Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.”
An Ebola virus disease outbreak centered on the West African country of Guinea has claimed more than 80 lives so far. Here’s a primer on this deadly disease.
A rundown of some of the biggest scientific frauds in history – at least, the ones that have been exposed.
Today’s announcement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, about the detection of “gravitational waves” emanating from the universe’s first moments, is tremendously exciting, but a little tough for the layman to grasp. We caught up with Brian Greene, in Vancouver to give a...
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The flow of time is central to human experience. The past drifts away and the future relentlessly approaches. But does time really flow? Or, as Einstein suggested, might the distinction between past, present and future be an illusion?
The Moth and WSF team up to bring you poignant, hilarious and unpredictable stories of science.
Peter Higgs and Francois Englert win Nobel Prize in Physics. Want to know what makes the Higgs Boson Nobel Prize-worthy? Brian Greene explains. Also, watch as he explains some math behind it.
Watch an overview of the math behind the Nobel Prize-winning Higgs Boson discovery with Brian Greene.
The video lets you ride shotgun with a packet of data—one of trillions involved in the trillions of Internet interactions that happen every second. Look deep beneath the surface of the most basic Internet transaction, and follow the packet as it flows from your fingertips, through circuits,...
NASA’s MAVEN mission is scheduled to launch on Monday, November 18. In this WSF video, NASA scientist Michelle Thaller talks about what MAVEN could reveal about Mars’ lost atmosphere and teach us about the life cycle of planets.
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Alec Baldwin asks filmmakers Joel & Ethan Coen, neuroscientist Aniruddh D. Patel, and film composer Carter Burwell, “What is one of your favorite musical score moments in a movie?” Watch this excerpt from Art of the Score: The Mind, Music, and Moving Images.
The combination of music, sound effects and silence can create heightened emotional reactions. Alec Baldwin leads a conversation with the Coen Brothers, composer Carter Burwell and neuroscientist, Ani Patel that investigates these effects using a memorable scene from “Barton Fink.” Learn more about...
Marie Curie was a woman whose profound achievements changed science forever. Her remarkable story was among those featured in the WSF program Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius. The program began with a theatrical piece exploring genius, and this chosen excerpt highlights Curie, the first woman...
This year at NYCC, we brought together a group of authors and scientists for a conversation about how the art, science and storytelling of comic books and graphic novels can be a launch pad into worlds of scientific exploration and discovery.
Brian Greene introduces "When Science Gets Graphic" at New York Comic Con.
Jonathan Coulton offers up an astonishing one hundred bucks for the purchase of a quantum computer.
Comic book author Jim Ottaviani says while science is all about repeatability, precision and accuracy, storytelling about science isn't served well by devotion to including every detail.
Charles Soule explains the inspiration for his imaginative mathematical graphic novel "Strange Attractors."
The "When Science Gets Graphic" audience smiles at Jonathan Coulton's comment about the hazards of scientific inaccuracies in his song writing. And how willing people are to point them out.
"When Science Gets Graphic" audience member asks how we get diverse scientific disciplines like biology more involved in comic books.
Author of "Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers in Space" Dominic Walliman sees a parade of cosplay characters at New York Comic Con.
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The Big Ideas Series features innovative programs that inspire and captivate audiences while exploring some of the most complex of scientific questions, including our origins, our fundamental nature, and our place in the cosmos.
The Moth and WSF team up to bring you poignant, hilarious and unpredictable stories of science.
Normally, when you think about math, the word “creativity” doesn’t readily come to mind. Playing his best devil’s advocate, Robert Krulwich challenges the panel to explain the “beauty” of a formula or the “elegance” of a proof. Is math a kind of art? Can a great mathematical idea be compared to a...
Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, ecologist and National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett recounts his unexpectedly hilarious expedition to a remote valley in Colombia to document an elusive and highly poisonous...
The Big, the Small, and the Complex is a series exploring the latest developments in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience—fields recognized by The Kavli Prize. This series is made possible with help from The Kavli Foundation, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Royal...
Ecologist and explorer Mark Moffett has trekked across the globe to find his stories and capture them on film. Just like the creatures he photographs, Mark can be found crawling in the dirt or clinging to the tops of trees to get that perfect shot. Joined by a scaly friend, he shares his...
Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Nate Ball has always had an appetite for excitement. Growing up, he learned how to build everything from hovercrafts to potato guns to tesla coils. It’s no wonder he went on to become an award-winning mechanical engineer. Here he...
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, walks us through the process of constructing “memory palaces”—an age-old memorization technique currently exploited by the world’s leading memory champs and mental athletes. Psychologist and memory...
Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Watch as neuroscientist André Fenton describes the life of a modern brain scientist, leads a group of students through interactive games, and scans a person’s brain live while explaining what we can learn from its electrical waves.
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Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, explains how she searches for intelligent life on other planets, what exactly her 42 radio telescopes pick up, and why she needs your eyes and ears to perpetuate her search.
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Quantum mechanics is one of the most amazing and surprising discoveries, ever. While nobody expected it, the microscopic world of atoms and molecules behave in vastly different ways from the objects around us. During the 2013 World Science Festival, the event Spooky Action: The Drama of Quantum...
Wendy Suzuki is a neuroscientist who studies a special area of the brain called the hippocampus. It’s small compared to other brain regions, but it plays a pivotal role in memory and spatial navigation. Suzuki specifically studies how exercise has been shown to promote brain growth in this area....
Youth joined food scientist, Julie Goddard, from the University of Massachusetts, to see what’s cooking in a food lab and just how much science you need to know in this yummy apprentice program.
Taught by after school program, Engineering for Kids, apprentices designed, built, and tested their own balsawood bridges and other types of bridges to study structural loads.
Budding food scientists at work.
What one apprentice learned about life underwater.
Students worked with Roboticist Edwin Olson to program and drive a robot through obstacles and mazes.
A young scientist's first encounter with a real brain.
A student eagerly awaits his turn to ask a question.
Upon completion of the workshop, each apprentice received a “Scientist's Apprentice Certificate."
Students also received a World Science Festival backpack.
How do you turn Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection into a story, especially a story that relates to rap?
In honor of International Women’s Day this Saturday #IWD2014, we’re recognizing female pioneers in science. Today, meet Dr. Nora Volkow, whose research on drugs and the brain helped us understand addiction as a disease. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She’s...
Download this comprehensive guide to teaching black holes in the classroom. How does gravity work across space? How do black holes form? What is time dilation? Includes stunning images of black holes, a glossary, and classroom activities.
Carmela & Yonathai, high school students at The NOW Academy, Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles worked to create this intro for the World Science Festival Cool Jobs event. They together developed the script, characters, and produced all the drawings for this fresh animated short....
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Festo's autonomous bionic bird soared above the World Science Festival's tech fest, Innovation Square, on June 2, 2012.
Another amazing Festo creation is the AquaJelly, an autonomous robotic jellyfish with eight mechanical tentacles to propel itself underwater just like the real deal.
A robotic snake that can slither up poles (and people) slithered through the crowds at Innovation Square
Come see why Dennis Hong's humanoid was named Time magazine's 2011 Best Invention of the Year.
SmartBird, a massive, autonomous flying contraption straight out of a sci-fi fever dream, buzzed the square every hour.
Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri's robotic fish are convincing enough to swim with real schools of fish.
How do you turn Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection into a story, especially a story that relates to rap?
Travel back in time as Galileo Galilei (played by Mike Francis) relates the story of when he first turned his telescope to the sky in order to count the stars—and finds the task more daunting than he expected.
Jarod Miller is no stranger to animals. As a zoologist, he has traveled the world and met countless members of the animal kingdom. But that’s not enough for him, he wants children to meet them too. With the help of an assistant, Jarod is joined on stage by three of his furry friends, giving the...
The Mathemagician reveals the surprisingly easy trick behind instantly multiplying any two-digit number by 11. It’s really as simple as 2 + 2.
What do aerobic exercise and memory have in common? According to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki, more than you think. Her passion for the human brain, memory, and a workout routine called intenSati led her to get people out of their seats and work out for better brain health.
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When you need a clock of utmost accuracy, you need an atomic clock. Nobel Prize winner William Phillips explains how scientists use atomic clocks to get the most accurate bang for their buck.
Cool Jobs is an annual jaw-dropping program that occurs both during the week of the Festival and year-round. Cool Jobs brings children face-to-face with world-renowned scientists and their amazing jobs. It inspires young audiences to learn about science, be excited by science and maybe even grow up...
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Today is March 14th, 3/14, and so every year we celebrate Pi (π). This year, we decided to do something a little fun, and so here we are, trying to recite as many digits of Pi as possible, with varying degrees of success.
Today’s announcement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, about the detection of “gravitational waves” emanating from the universe’s first moments, is tremendously exciting, but a little tough for the layman to grasp. We caught up with Brian Greene, in Vancouver to give a...
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Is prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, a communicable disease? Can you get it from a genetic mutation or just from environmental considerations? Is it a consequence of the natural process of aging—or of the progression of Alzheimer’s? Neurologist Oliver Sacks, who himself is face...
On March 17th, the physics world was rocked by a discovery that may shed light on the wild birth of our universe. Using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole, scientists have found what they believe to be the signature of gravitational waves propagating from the rapid expansion of the universe in...
On March 17th, the physics world was rocked by a discovery that may shed light on the wild birth of our universe. Using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole, scientists have found what they believe to be the signature of gravitational waves propagating from the rapid expansion of the universe in...
Working at a small scale has big challenges. Nanoroboticist Metin Sitti designs and builds microscopic robots that can venture into the human body. Will this advancing nanotechnology revolutionize medicine? Learn more about nanotechnology and watch the full program of Cellular Surgeons: The New...
Why do we sleep? Why do we dream? How conscious are we during sleep and dreams? Neurologist Mélanie Boly explains the important ongoing studies at The Center for Sleep and Consciousness at University of Wisconsin. Watch the excerpt above or see the full program of The Whispering Mind: The...
