Getting old is an unavoidable truth of life. And yet, for most of modern history this mortal coil has baffled scientists. Over the past decade, however, researchers have made great strides in understanding the cellular, molecular, and genetic tableau of aging—which has brought the next question into sharp focus: Can aging be stopped?

Safest Halloween costume, longest-running washing machine, toys that work! Engineer Rachel Rothman and her team of engineers, chemists and researchers make sure these marketing claims, are true as part of …

Stephen Wolfram joins Brian Greene to explore the computational basis of space, time, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and reality itself. This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported …

Nobel Laureate and physicist Adam Riess and Brian Greene discuss the paradigm-shattering discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, the role of dark energy, and more. This program …

Search and rescue robots are able to go into places humans can’t and shouldn’t…this is the cool job of roboticist Edwin Olson who now makes autonomous shuttles. Episode filmed live …

What are the special challenges, pitfalls, opportunities and rare triumphs of seeking and synthesizing the essence of someone whose passion—quantum physics, number theory, nucleic acids, atomic species, computational design, gravitational phenomena—is so thoroughly foreign to the concerns of everyday life?