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2015
2015x1
What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
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David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
2015x2
Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
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A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.
2015x3
Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
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A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.
2015x4
Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
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A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.
2015x5
Where Did the Universe Come From?
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Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.
2015x6
Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises
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The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.
2015x7
Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
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A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”
2015x8
Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
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A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.
2015x9
Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible
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A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.
2015x10
Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse?
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In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed cows and an infinite number of two-headed cows. What happens to the ratio?”
2015x11
Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse
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University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.
2015x13
Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies
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Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light .. show full overview
2015x14
Why Do Flies Walk This Way?
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In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing at the Y’s vertex whether to walk left or right. This array of Y-mazes .. show full overview
2015x15
How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws
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In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.
2015x16
James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter
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James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.
2015x17
Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
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Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.
2015x18
Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.
2015x19
What Is a Species?
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David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.
2015x20
Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
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Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.
2015x21
Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps
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Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.
2015x22
Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life
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Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.
2015x23
Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory?
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Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.
2015x12
How Did Life Begin on Earth?
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In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.