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World Science Festival Gala 2017

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The World Science Festival celebrates our 10th Anniversary during our 2017 Gala.

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NYC Festival Dates Announced:
May 30 – June 4

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Join us for an exploration of groundbreaking discoveries, encounters with the trailblazing scientists and thinkers who are changing the world, and youth & family events that will inspire the next generation of leaders.

The Gamble That's Revolutionizing Astronomy

Brian Greene sits down with Halzen to examine the effort to build the IceCube detector at the South Pole and use it to track high energy neutrinos from deep space. WATCH NOW >

Will AI Destroy Mathematics?

Brian Greene reflects on OpenAI’s release of more than 700 papers, claiming progress on roughly 370 unsolved mathematical problems, and asks the question: Going forward, what will be the role of the human mathematician? WATCH NOW >

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been announced. Brian Greene explains the science behind it, and why detecting neutrinos from deep space opens a genuinely new way of observing the universe. WATCH NOW >

The Moment AI Changed Mathematics Forever

Has a machine just solved one of the most famous open problems in mathematics? Brian Greene speaks with Tristan Buckmaster about the Navier-Stokes equations, the Clay Institute’s million dollar Millennium Prize, and the role artificial intelligence played in the progress toward an answer. WATCH NOW >

How Does Your Brain Know Where You Are?

How does your brain know where you are, even in the dark? Brian Greene speaks with Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate and director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, about the discovery of grid cells, the brain's internal coordinate system for space. WATCH NOW >

Are There Limits To What Physics Can Explain?

Brian Greene sits down with Marcelo Gleiser, theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College and Templeton Prize winner, for a conversation that moves between physics, philosophy, and the psychology of mortality. WATCH NOW >

Meet the Greatest Minds in the World

Explore physics, technology, cosmology, biology, mathematics, and more with leaders in the field.

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Videos

Have We Been Brainwashed? Quantum Mechanics and Nonlocality

Step into the mind of Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, one of the pioneers who turned quantum weirdness into experimental reality. In this conversation with Brian Greene, Aspect retraces the century-long …

Your Daily Equation #22: 8 – 2 ÷ 2 x 3 + 4 = ?

Join us for #YourDailyEquation with Brian Greene. Every Mon – Fri at 3pm EDT, Brian Greene will offer brief and breezy discussions of pivotal equations. Even if your math is a …

Tracing the Abyss:The Spacetime of a Supermassive Black Hole

Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez joins Brian Greene to explore her decade’s long pursuit of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. This program is part …

Cosmology and the Accelerating Universe | A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt

Brian Greene and Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt engage in a wide-ranging conversation covering cosmology, the accelerating universe, and the role of science in shaping our future. This program is part …

Brilliant Breakthroughs: Nanoscience

This video is part of our Brilliant Breakthroughs series: our new 20-episode mini-series exploring the “Eureka!” moments and proud accomplishments of the greatest scientific minds of our time. Join us …

Redesigning the Molecules of Life

Nobel laureate David Baker joins Brian Greene to discuss groundbreaking work that leverages the chemistry of life to design powerful new molecules with wide ranging applications.

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