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15:48
Phil Tetlow
8 steps to understanding information (and maybe the universe)
13:15
Alexander MacDonald
How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight
5:34
Miho Janvier
Lessons from a solar storm chaser
12:16
David Baron
You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse
13:39
Gabriela González
How LIGO discovered gravitational waves -- and what might be next
4:50
Armando Azua-Bustos
The most Martian place on Earth
40:50
Elon Musk
The future we're building -- and boring
13:47
Nagin Cox
What time is it on Mars?
12:51
Katie Bouman
How to take a picture of a black hole
12:44
Xavier De Kestelier
Adventures of an interplanetary architect
15:25
Natasha Hurley-Walker
How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
4:18
Roey Tzezana
Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy?
15:54
James Beacham
How we explore unanswered questions in physics
12:38
Monica Byrne
A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
15:49
Kenneth Lacovara
Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
13:46
Tabetha Boyajian
The most mysterious star in the universe
6:06
Carrie Nugent
Adventures of an asteroid hunter
10:58
Allan Adams
What the discovery of gravitational waves means
13:57
Harry Cliff
Have we reached the end of physics?
11:55
Anjali Tripathi
Why Earth may someday look like Mars
10:39
James Green
3 moons and a planet that could have alien life
13:42
Dave Brain
What a planet needs to sustain life
15:37
Miguel Alcubierre
¿Cómo podríamos viajar más rápido que la velocidad de la luz?
13:42
Jedidah Isler
The untapped genius that could change science for the better
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
4:19
Jedidah Isler
How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
5:50
Lucianne Walkowicz
Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
5:25
Aomawa Shields
How we'll find life on other planets
17:04
Roger Antonsen
Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
5:00
Larry Lagerstrom
Einstein's miracle year
4:55
Jeff Dekofsky
Is math discovered or invented?
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
4:29
Chad Orzel
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
4:35
Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie
The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2
17:39
Andrew Connolly
What's the next window into our universe?
4:42
Allan Adams
The discovery that could rewrite physics
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