What’s the most complex structure in the known universe? Hint: You’re using it right now to answer to this question. While you keep brainstorming, let’s discuss your cerebral cortex. This …
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.
What happens when a black hole a billion times more massive than our sun powers a star-like object? It’s a quasar of a question. These massive and extremely remote celestial …
In his first World Science U Q+A session, Brian Greene takes questions on a variety of subjects including relativity, quantum, the cosmos and his WSU course, Space, Time and Einstein. …
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 …
The Winners Of The 2018 Kavli Prize In Neuroscience are James Hudspeth, Robert Fettiplace and Christine Petit for their groundbreaking research unraveling the mysteries of how we hear. 2018 marks …