Surviving Trump and overcoming climate change: American economist Jeffrey Sachs ponders on some of the greatest threats facing mankind.
String theory and the fabric of spacetime: Struggling to understand string theory and the fabric of spacetime? In this lecture, theoretical physicist Brian Greene makes everything clear. Sort of.
Perspectives from space: Magnus, who flew on STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle, looks back on her time in space. Now retired, she spent 134 days in orbit around the Earth, including 133 days between November 2008 and March 2009 as mission specialist on STS-126. In this talk she looks back on her time in space.
The search for biosignatures on exoplanets: Seager’s research is focussed on studying exoplanet atmospheres, work that could one day help answer one of the most fundamental questions about our place in the universe: are we alone?
Supernovae reveal an accelerating universe: Riess won a Nobel prize in 2011 for his discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. In this lecture, he explores a number of theories that attempt to explain why this is happening and what it means.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
