Smashing sledgehammers, ducking spike-covered pendulums, tug or war matches in socks are all part of the physics classes of @BASISIndBK Joshua Winters and @NYCSchools Yenmin Young. Science teachers prepare tomorrow’s …
What is color? It seems like a simple question at first, but when you think about it, the reality of what we’re seeing is a pretty complex situation. Our human eyes sift through a small piece of the vast electromagnetic spectrum and translate it into every color of the rainbow.
What makes Mona Lisa’s smile so intriguing? What makes Picasso’s portraits so compelling? Kurt Andersen hosts artists Chuck Close and Devorah Sperber, with neuroscientists Margaret Livingstone, Chris Tyler and Ken Nakayama, as they examine the power of brain imaging technology to illuminate how we perceive the most intimate yet public of features, the human face.
Zoologist Jarod Miller has traveled the world and encountered countless members of the animal kingdom. Meet a fennec fox, a kinkajou, and a lemur and learn about the special traits …
Can we address mysteries of quantum mechanics by supposing that properties of objects long considered to have an independent existence are actually determined solely in relation to other objects or …
On July 4, 2012 the champagne flowed. The elusive Higgs boson—the fundamental particle that gives mass to all other particles—had been found. After generations of work, the last puzzle piece …