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	2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations? 08:42: But this isn’t the scientific consensus, and notably these researchers are not planetary scientists nor astrobiologists. 16:59: Today’s comment responses are for the episode on the 2022 Nobel prize, which went to three scientists for their work on quantum entanglement. 08:42: But this isn’t the scientific consensus, and notably these researchers are not planetary scientists nor astrobiologists. 16:59: Today’s comment responses are for the episode on the 2022 Nobel prize, which went to three scientists for their work on quantum entanglement.
	2022-10-26: Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics? 00:00: ... Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the  ... 14:14: All because a few scientists were willing  to challenge the status quo, and seek the hidden secrets of space time. 15:08: Alek passed away at a young age, but by all accounts was a true scientist his entire life. 15:14: ... as a professional chemist and launched into a  career as staff scientists at ... 00:00: ... Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the  ... 14:14: All because a few scientists were willing  to challenge the status quo, and seek the hidden secrets of space time. 15:14: ... as a professional chemist and launched into a  career as staff scientists at ...
	2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets! 01:25: ... OK, that’s just what it should be called.   For some reasons scientists went with  SGLF - solar gravitational lens focal   region ... 07:45: ... then controlling such a giant   sail is very difficult, so the scientists are  proposing an advanced solar sail design called   the ... 10:07: ... outwards as we get further from the Sun.   Remember that the scientists called this  a string of pearls. That first cluster of   ... 14:06: ... dealbreaker. There is no funded mission yet,   but the scientists involved have been advanced to the phase 3 stage by the NAIA program. ... 01:25: ... OK, that’s just what it should be called.   For some reasons scientists went with  SGLF - solar gravitational lens focal   region ... 07:45: ... then controlling such a giant   sail is very difficult, so the scientists are  proposing an advanced solar sail design called   the ... 10:07: ... outwards as we get further from the Sun.   Remember that the scientists called this  a string of pearls. That first cluster of   ... 14:06: ... dealbreaker. There is no funded mission yet,   but the scientists involved have been advanced to the phase 3 stage by the NAIA program. ... 07:45: ... then controlling such a giant   sail is very difficult, so the scientists are  proposing an advanced solar sail design called   the SunVane - ... 10:07: ... outwards as we get further from the Sun.   Remember that the scientists called this  a string of pearls. That first cluster of   craft ... 14:06: ... dealbreaker. There is no funded mission yet,   but the scientists involved have been advanced to the phase 3 stage by the NAIA program. The step ...
	2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained! 08:40: So-called legacy programs are all about maximizing the value of data for as many scientists and science questions as possible.
	2022-08-24: What Makes The Strong Force Strong? 04:58: ... colored, but as we’ll see in a bit, there is a very good reason scientists thought about colors when naming this ...
	2022-07-20: What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe? 04:51: ... the scientists come back together to compare results, they’ll notice certain peculiar ... 06:01: The scientists go off and make their own choices for their measurement directions. 06:17: But there’s no correlation between one scientist’s measurement results and the other scientist’s choice of measurement direction. 04:51: ... the scientists come back together to compare results, they’ll notice certain peculiar ... 06:01: The scientists go off and make their own choices for their measurement directions. 06:17: But there’s no correlation between one scientist’s measurement results and the other scientist’s choice of measurement direction.
	2022-06-30: Could We Decode Alien Physics? 01:25: ... we flip the switch and destroy the planet,   a few cautious scientists take one last look  at the alien documentation. So what do you ...
	2022-06-22: Is Interstellar Travel Impossible? 00:07: Many have claimed this is the case, but a few scientists have actually figured it out.
	2022-06-15: Can Wormholes Solve The Black Hole Information Paradox? 13:07: ... scene, hundreds more papers have  been published on the subject. Scientists are   performing a sort of theoretical path integral ...
	2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy 16:41: ... by  most terrestrial planets. On the other hand,   some scientists doubt that the late heavy  bombardment even happened - all of ...
	2022-05-04: Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere 01:59: ... a cleaner picture. Soon after Einstein finished general relativity, four scientists independently solved its equation for the entire universe, giving us the ...
	2022-04-20: Does the Universe Create Itself? 00:30: ... Scientists are fairly attached to the idea that the universe is real. We’re fond of ... 01:59: ... that is either killed or not killed by a random quantum process. For a scientist running the experiment, the cat is in a twin state of both alive and ... 00:30: ... Scientists are fairly attached to the idea that the universe is real. We’re fond of ... 01:59: ... doesn’t the cat get to observe its own state? Perhaps to the cat, the scientists are in a similar superposition, The heart of the problem was a simple ...
	2022-02-16: Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality? 01:24: ... famous example of this is Schrodinger’s cat. A scientist puts a cute kitty in a closed box with a radioactive atom attached to a ... 02:24: ... The atom, the radioactive detector, the vial of poison, the cat, the scientist? ... 11:09: ... caused by this Brownian motion means it will emit radiation. Last year, scientists working in Trieste, Italy tried to measure this radiation effect. They ... 11:50: ... With such pristine conditions for a high-precision measurement, the scientists in Trieste were able to measure single photons emitted from the ... 12:26: ... this isn't enough to confirm or refute the general idea, but the scientists were able to place tight restrictions on the value of the free ... 01:24: ... famous example of this is Schrodinger’s cat. A scientist puts a cute kitty in a closed box with a radioactive atom attached to a vial ... 11:09: ... caused by this Brownian motion means it will emit radiation. Last year, scientists working in Trieste, Italy tried to measure this radiation effect. They ... 11:50: ... With such pristine conditions for a high-precision measurement, the scientists in Trieste were able to measure single photons emitted from the ... 12:26: ... this isn't enough to confirm or refute the general idea, but the scientists were able to place tight restrictions on the value of the free ... 01:24: ... of gas and so killing the cat. Prior to opening the box, from the scientist’s perspective the atom’s wave function exists in what we call a superposition of ... 11:09: ... caused by this Brownian motion means it will emit radiation. Last year, scientists working in Trieste, Italy tried to measure this radiation effect. They put an ...
	2021-12-29: How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres 13:31: But some very serious scientists - starting with Freeman Dyson and Carl Sagan - take the question very seriously.
	2021-12-20: What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth? 10:44: ... hard, but not impossible thanks to some new theory work. Recently, some scientists have calculated how the shape of a black hole’s crater would be ...
	2021-12-10: 2021 End of Year AMA! 00:02: ... that i'm convinced is true that um is not proven and that most scientists don't um accept so the first thing that came to my mind when um when ...
	2021-11-17: Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs? 15:05: ... Martian Atmospheric Haze and he worked with the most famous planetary scientist of all - Carl ... 15:33: ... tend to talk about the famous scientists on this show, but it’s the dedication, passion, and hard work of ...
	2021-10-13: New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light 13:38: ... as a scientist I may not know everything about the depths of quantum tunneling, but as ...
	2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole 01:28: ... image was produced through a herculean effort - a team of hundreds of scientists and engineers synthesizing data from radio telescopes across the ...
	2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse 13:40: ... to let you know that if you’re looking for a fun show for the young scientists in your lives, than you should check out MEGAWOW on the PBS Kids Youtube ... 14:02: ... episode we talked about this one very weird white dwarf star that scientists think may be the first observation of the result of the merger of two ... 15:46: ... the partner star to explode? Well, I'm not sure - but it seems these scientists think that, that's less likely that the white dwarf collision ... 13:40: ... to let you know that if you’re looking for a fun show for the young scientists in your lives, than you should check out MEGAWOW on the PBS Kids Youtube ... 14:02: ... episode we talked about this one very weird white dwarf star that scientists think may be the first observation of the result of the merger of two ... 15:46: ... the partner star to explode? Well, I'm not sure - but it seems these scientists think that, that's less likely that the white dwarf collision ...
	2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe 13:29: ... people don’t know this, but Stephen is SO generous and amazing that scientists have to factor in his personal magnetism when they calculate the Earth’s ...
	2021-05-25: What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere? 14:38: Well, not officially LIGO, but LIGO scientist Maggie Tse reached out to us to point out an error.
	2021-05-19: Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 10:03: ... Scientists have demonstrated this same principle in other systems like entangled ...
	2021-05-11: How To Know If It's Aliens 01:41: ... Are any of them still credible? And what's it going to take for scientists to decide that any given line of evidence adds up to proof. Or are ... 03:17: ... 1996, scientists discovered elongated mineral structures that looked for all the world ... 13:10: ... the way to go. Believe me, if it is aliens the evidence will mount. Most scientists do want it to be aliens more than anyone, and will vigorously jump on ... 17:14: ... Chaps correctly points out that there are scientists who have pushed the black hole dark matter hypothesis for years, so it ... 01:41: ... Are any of them still credible? And what's it going to take for scientists to decide that any given line of evidence adds up to proof. Or are ... 03:17: ... 1996, scientists discovered elongated mineral structures that looked for all the world ... 13:10: ... the way to go. Believe me, if it is aliens the evidence will mount. Most scientists do want it to be aliens more than anyone, and will vigorously jump on ... 17:14: ... Chaps correctly points out that there are scientists who have pushed the black hole dark matter hypothesis for years, so it ... 03:17: ... 1996, scientists discovered elongated mineral structures that looked for all the world like ...
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 12:31: Scientists are very persistent, especially the ones who are also die-hard science fiction fans. 16:11: Fermilab’s scientists and engineers are right to feel very proud of this result. 12:31: Scientists are very persistent, especially the ones who are also die-hard science fiction fans. 16:11: Fermilab’s scientists and engineers are right to feel very proud of this result.
	2021-04-07: Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting! 01:23: And the scientists at Fermilab have just tugged it hard with the Muon g-2 experiment.
	2021-03-23: Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect 05:37: ... then in 1990, a group of scientists headed up by David Wineland and Wayne Itano claimed to have demonstrated ... 15:56: I said at the start of the episode that it's exciting for scientists to be proven wrong. 16:00: Hidden Marty offers this correction: Scientists love when OTHER scientists are proven wrong. 16:06: I gotta hand it to you, that's even more exciting, especially if those other scientists were the ones saying that YOU were wrong. 16:13: But the point is that scientists do celebrate and embrace wrongness for the way it helps point us towards increasing knowledge. 16:30: Scientists are wrong a lot, but their wrongness is self-correcting. 05:37: ... then in 1990, a group of scientists headed up by David Wineland and Wayne Itano claimed to have demonstrated ... 15:56: I said at the start of the episode that it's exciting for scientists to be proven wrong. 16:00: Hidden Marty offers this correction: Scientists love when OTHER scientists are proven wrong. 16:06: I gotta hand it to you, that's even more exciting, especially if those other scientists were the ones saying that YOU were wrong. 16:13: But the point is that scientists do celebrate and embrace wrongness for the way it helps point us towards increasing knowledge. 16:30: Scientists are wrong a lot, but their wrongness is self-correcting. 05:37: ... then in 1990, a group of scientists headed up by David Wineland and Wayne Itano claimed to have demonstrated it in ... 16:00: Hidden Marty offers this correction: Scientists love when OTHER scientists are proven wrong.
	2021-03-16: The NEW Crisis in Cosmology 00:22: ... most exciting thing for any scientist is when something they thought they knew turns out to ... 12:25: ... something more fundamental about how the universe expands. Scientists love being wrong - because   when you find the source of that ... 09:50: ... yelling about new physics,   remember that we’re level-headed scientists. Two independent methods aren’t enough.   We need more - and we ...
	2021-03-09: How Does Gravity Affect Light? 00:31: But for some reason we - scientists - have been convinced of the fact with no good evidence for hundreds of years.
	2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life! 07:16: However the scientists calculate that almost all of the phosphene would be destroyed in that time.
	2020-09-21: Could Life Evolve Inside Stars? 00:33: Scientists can sometimes be a little carbon-chauvanistic when we imagine other possible life forms. 00:55: But that hasn’t stopped some scientists from looking. 00:33: Scientists can sometimes be a little carbon-chauvanistic when we imagine other possible life forms. 00:55: But that hasn’t stopped some scientists from looking.
	2020-09-01: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of? 01:37: She was born in Great Britain in 1900 and always knew she wanted to be a scientist. 10:13: At around the same time as Ceclia Payne was doing all of this, other scientists were figuring out the rest of the mysteries of the stars.
	2020-08-24: Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model? 13:17: Of coordinating thousands of scientists over many decades to build these crazy machines that can crack open the inner workings of spacetime.
	2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream 00:00: ... an unscientific argument and i think it's terribly embarrassing if uh scientists go go on and make claims like this now as i said earlier one has to ...
	2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream 00:00: ... of course is casts a large shadow over all of what we try to do as scientists and the question is is it still relevant this conjecture to pursue ...
	2020-07-20: The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars 05:28: Scientists believe that it would be very difficult to get out of bed on the surface of a neutron star.
	2020-07-08: Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing? 09:19: ... the anti-hydrogen securely in the trap, scientists measure the difference in energies between the various positron orbitals ... 10:56: ... scientists are also building a new experiment: similar to the original ALPHA ... 11:51: ... so. Apparently we have another one of these Space Time episodes where scientists busted ass to break physics and … didn’t. But as I’ve said before, ... 09:19: ... the anti-hydrogen securely in the trap, scientists measure the difference in energies between the various positron orbitals ... 10:56: ... scientists are also building a new experiment: similar to the original ALPHA ... 11:51: ... so. Apparently we have another one of these Space Time episodes where scientists busted ass to break physics and … didn’t. But as I’ve said before, ... 09:19: ... the anti-hydrogen securely in the trap, scientists measure the difference in energies between the various positron orbitals in the ...
	2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends? 16:36: Right - and that’s really what scientists mean when they say viruses may have predated cells.
	2020-05-27: Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions? 07:52: ... for the experiment was actually designed and built by another British scientist John Mitchell - the same guy who first hypothesized the existence of ...
	2020-04-28: Space Time Livestream: Ask Matt Anything 00:00: ... this is not this is not a trivial question it's been kind of stumped scientists for over at least 300 years but not just any scientists know like ...
	2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient 00:00: ... discovery of the true spatial vastness of our universe. And it came as scientists tried to measure the age of the Earth. What they found was as shocking ... 05:28: ... work was incredibly influential - and not least to a young scientist named Charles Darwin. Darwin read Lyell’s book during his famous voyage ... 00:00: ... discovery of the true spatial vastness of our universe. And it came as scientists tried to measure the age of the Earth. What they found was as shocking ...
	2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat? 00:00: To quote eminent scientist Tyler Durden: "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Actually… not necessarily.
	2020-02-18: Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics? 10:21: The weird behavior of the quantum world demanded the courageous and open-minded speculation that characterizes a great scientist. 10:28: But the other quality of a great scientist is openness to changing your mind.
	2020-02-11: Are Axions Dark Matter? 00:27: ... history of the axion is a classic physics tale: intrepid scientists delve deep into trackless mathematics in search of answers to a mystery. ...
	2020-01-27: Hacking the Nature of Reality 13:17: ... their own episodes, then we’ll see how a simple insight by a young scientist back in 1925 allowed us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps towards a ...
	2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes? 01:02: But if you don’t like the anthropic principle - and many scientists don’t - then rest assured, there’s an alternative.
	2019-12-02: Is The Universe Finite? 00:50: And within this light, a group of scientists have just found evidence of the limits of space. 06:31: ... brave scientists were able to determine the amount of lensing present in the Planck CMB ... 07:11: These scientists didn’t just measure the amount of lensing on its own. 00:50: And within this light, a group of scientists have just found evidence of the limits of space. 06:31: ... brave scientists were able to determine the amount of lensing present in the Planck CMB ... 07:11: These scientists didn’t just measure the amount of lensing on its own.
	2019-11-18: Can You Observe a Typical Universe? 04:17: Many scientists find it extremely unsatisfying, and lazy, and unscientific.
	2019-11-11: Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist? 14:48: This is a valuable point to bring up, and several eminent scientists feel the same.
	2019-10-07: Black Hole Harmonics 04:57: ... scientists had assumed that in order to see the overtones you’d need to look at the ...
	2019-09-30: How Many Universes Are There? 15:19: ... props to Regolith on the spacetime discord, who's a bona fide planetary scientist. ... 15:30: I'm also echoing some of the thoughts of Alan Stern, lead scientist on the new horizons mission to pluto. 15:37: ... is arbitrary and ambiguous, second that it should have been planetary scientists that made this decision, not ... 16:27: And that's an issue that planetary scientists take. 18:04: ... the definition again - perhaps this time with more input from planetary scientists. ... 15:37: ... is arbitrary and ambiguous, second that it should have been planetary scientists that made this decision, not ... 16:27: And that's an issue that planetary scientists take. 18:04: ... the definition again - perhaps this time with more input from planetary scientists. ...
	2019-09-16: Could We Terraform Mars? 04:23: ... a nice Nature Astronomy article last year, planetary scientists Bruce Jakosky and Christopher Edwards calculate the plausibility of ...
	2019-09-03: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing? 05:10: ... magnetic field through a process called the dynamo effect – or so most scientists accept these ... 09:51: ... no clear evidence of any of these triggers, however - and so most scientists think these geomagnetic events are just a natural part of dynamo ... 11:10: ... WMM scientists found the north magnetic pole was moving so quickly that they updated ... 12:24: ... scientists have a pretty good idea, and think that Earth’s magnetic field is likely ... 05:10: ... magnetic field through a process called the dynamo effect – or so most scientists accept these ... 09:51: ... no clear evidence of any of these triggers, however - and so most scientists think these geomagnetic events are just a natural part of dynamo ... 11:10: ... WMM scientists found the north magnetic pole was moving so quickly that they updated ... 12:24: ... scientists have a pretty good idea, and think that Earth’s magnetic field is likely ... 05:10: ... magnetic field through a process called the dynamo effect – or so most scientists accept these ...
	2019-08-26: How To Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question! 08:00: ... mentors it's going to be a challenging time But it will Forge you into a scientist One piece of advice regarding grad school to find the straightest path ... 08:59: ... in the room and Don't do it because you like the idea of yourself as a scientist more than you like doing science The fact is with the job situation as ...
	2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang? 13:17: ... the case of Big Bang, many scientists now mean the period of regular Hubble like expansion that followed the ...
	2019-07-18: Did Time Start at the Big Bang? 01:22: ... far as we understand it Now, before a certain crowd starts with "all the scientists keep changing their minds - they don't know anything", or "the Big Bang ...
	2019-06-20: The Quasar from The Beginning of Time 06:43: ... Scientists struggled to figure out how it could grow to that insane size in a tiny ...
	2019-06-17: How Black Holes Kill Galaxies 11:24: ... website that teaches you to tackle difficult topics and think like a scientist By breaking up complexities into understandable pieces and instead of ...
	2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions 02:47: ... those rocks eventually found their ways to earth and into the hands of scientists these short-lived isotopes completely decayed long ago but they decayed ... 12:15: ... Westrich summarizes my feelings on the matter: "it's amazing how much scientists can find out with so little in this case from a single point of light ... 02:47: ... those rocks eventually found their ways to earth and into the hands of scientists these short-lived isotopes completely decayed long ago but they decayed ... 12:15: ... Westrich summarizes my feelings on the matter: "it's amazing how much scientists can find out with so little in this case from a single point of light ...
	2019-05-16: The Cosmic Dark Ages 00:24: ... rarely discussed because it’s hellishly difficult to study. Fortunately scientists are devilishly clever. So what do we know about the time before ...
	2019-05-01: The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole 10:49: Since then, evidence has mounted and few scientists doubt their existence.
	2019-02-20: Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background 00:08: ... us to peer inside its fiery beginnings [Intro music] It's not that scientists have spent half a century and built multiple satellites to unlock the ...
	2019-02-07: Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time 14:49: ... evidence." Again, this is a guiding principle, and it helps scientists sort through the overwhelming flood of poorly thought-out "theories" ...
	2018-12-20: Why String Theory is Wrong 15:14: ... website that teaches you to tackle difficult topics and think like a scientist by breaking up complexities into Understandable pieces and instead of ...
	2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe 00:02: ... that teaches you to tackle with difficult topics and think like a scientist by breaking up complexities into understandable pieces and instead of ...
	2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space? 00:03: ... on earth after having traveled vast distances across the Milky Way some scientists think this may be the case this is the panspermia hypothesis there's ... 00:37: ... the impacts and during reentry that all sounds pretty unsurvivable but scientists have engaged in various forms of microbe abuse to test this this ... 00:03: ... on earth after having traveled vast distances across the Milky Way some scientists think this may be the case this is the panspermia hypothesis there's ... 00:37: ... the impacts and during reentry that all sounds pretty unsurvivable but scientists have engaged in various forms of microbe abuse to test this this ...
	2018-11-21: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens 11:20: Scientists should be free to pursue fringe ideas as long as they do it scientifically. 12:14: The appeal to the authority of the authors seems designed to provoke the reaction, well, if Harvard scientists say so, then it must be true. 13:12: Brilliant is a problem solving website that teaches you to think like a scientist. 11:20: Scientists should be free to pursue fringe ideas as long as they do it scientifically. 12:14: The appeal to the authority of the authors seems designed to provoke the reaction, well, if Harvard scientists say so, then it must be true.
	2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found? 07:29: ... you can imagine that ANITA scientists were a little confused when they spotted two extremely high energy radio ...
	2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life? 10:43: Some scientists have been inspired by the persistent absence of evidence for aliens to investigate this possibility. 10:55: Some scientists argue that deliberate annihilation of all humans isn't just possible, it's likely. 14:55: Scientists don't actually use the nomenclature that some popularizers of science often insist on. 10:43: Some scientists have been inspired by the persistent absence of evidence for aliens to investigate this possibility. 10:55: Some scientists argue that deliberate annihilation of all humans isn't just possible, it's likely. 14:55: Scientists don't actually use the nomenclature that some popularizers of science often insist on. 10:55: Some scientists argue that deliberate annihilation of all humans isn't just possible, it's likely. 14:55: Scientists don't actually use the nomenclature that some popularizers of science often insist on.
	2018-08-30: Is There Life on Mars? 01:41: ... as good scientists, we have to suggest some caution because people have been searching for ... 03:38: ... a scientist, it's so important to stay aware of that very human bias because it's led ... 11:17: ... the scientists think that these Martian molecules originated from large organic ... 11:32: But all of these teasers have gotten scientists very excited. 01:41: ... as good scientists, we have to suggest some caution because people have been searching for ... 11:17: ... the scientists think that these Martian molecules originated from large organic ... 11:32: But all of these teasers have gotten scientists very excited.
	2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get? 09:34: ... a new show from PBS Digital Studios that will introduce you to the scientists and tinkers in the Pacific Northwest on the cutting edge of green ...
	2018-06-27: How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth 01:38: ... will take years of work by dedicated engineers and scientists and billions of dollars to extract the first dollar's worth of useful ...
	2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves 06:44: Some scientists are even trying to see how gravitational waves should interact with stars.
	2018-01-31: Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds 00:00: ... PLAYING] A team of scientists recently discovered a star that appears to have consumed its own planets ...
	2017-12-20: Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst 05:16: So why do some scientists think that the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event resulted from a GRB? 06:07: Scientists agree that many of the extinctions of that era resulted from the change in climate. 05:16: So why do some scientists think that the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event resulted from a GRB? 06:07: Scientists agree that many of the extinctions of that era resulted from the change in climate.
	2017-11-29: Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] We are all born scientists. 00:56: Today, I want to talk about some of the stunning contributions still being made by citizen scientists and the contributions you can make. 03:12: It was deployed primarily for citizen scientist use. 03:33: ... regular human eyes and brains can do much better than a small number of scientists operating even the best computers in the ... 04:09: This project used citizen scientists to classify the morphological types of nearly 1 million galaxies. 05:36: Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't go to university and become a professional scientist, but I'm saying you don't have to in order to do real science. 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] We are all born scientists. 00:56: Today, I want to talk about some of the stunning contributions still being made by citizen scientists and the contributions you can make. 03:33: ... regular human eyes and brains can do much better than a small number of scientists operating even the best computers in the ... 04:09: This project used citizen scientists to classify the morphological types of nearly 1 million galaxies. 03:33: ... regular human eyes and brains can do much better than a small number of scientists operating even the best computers in the ...
	2017-11-22: Suicide Space Robots 03:42: NASA's scientists soon realized that the dust was being cleaned from the solar panels by the Martian wind. 09:37: It's our way of honoring the many brilliant scientists and engineers who poured their own lives into these ingenious machines. 13:41: ... ideas like the EmDrive or zero-point energy generators is an example of scientists being stuck in the dogma of the scientific ... 13:55: OK, so I won't deny that scientists, like anyone, can be resistant to change. 14:06: But it's a mistake to think that scientists adhere to dogma more than most people. 14:11: In fact, scientists love overthrowing old ideas. 14:19: Also, scientists do tend to be contrary difficult individualists. 15:28: Scientists will always explore them because that's how we find the true paths. 15:40: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas, it's because they're not ready for the truth. 16:12: Scientists will always explore them because that's how we find the true paths. 16:24: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas it's because they're not ready for the truth. 03:42: NASA's scientists soon realized that the dust was being cleaned from the solar panels by the Martian wind. 09:37: It's our way of honoring the many brilliant scientists and engineers who poured their own lives into these ingenious machines. 13:41: ... ideas like the EmDrive or zero-point energy generators is an example of scientists being stuck in the dogma of the scientific ... 13:55: OK, so I won't deny that scientists, like anyone, can be resistant to change. 14:06: But it's a mistake to think that scientists adhere to dogma more than most people. 14:11: In fact, scientists love overthrowing old ideas. 14:19: Also, scientists do tend to be contrary difficult individualists. 15:28: Scientists will always explore them because that's how we find the true paths. 15:40: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas, it's because they're not ready for the truth. 16:12: Scientists will always explore them because that's how we find the true paths. 16:24: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas it's because they're not ready for the truth. 14:06: But it's a mistake to think that scientists adhere to dogma more than most people. 14:11: In fact, scientists love overthrowing old ideas. 15:40: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas, it's because they're not ready for the truth. 16:24: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas it's because they're not ready for the truth. 15:40: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas, it's because they're not ready for the truth. 16:24: In short, sometimes when scientists poo-poo fringe ideas it's because they're not ready for the truth.
	2017-11-02: The Vacuum Catastrophe 07:56: Now, that is what scientists call a catastrophe.
	2017-09-28: Are the Fundamental Constants Changing? 09:19: Scientists are analyzing the remaining decay products to see if Alpha was smaller when the event took place. 10:38: ... Scientists are also looking into the variation of other dimensionless constants, ... 10:50: ... refined cosmological models, and better atomic clocks will also help scientists shave down those experimental errors little by ... 09:19: Scientists are analyzing the remaining decay products to see if Alpha was smaller when the event took place. 10:38: ... Scientists are also looking into the variation of other dimensionless constants, ... 10:50: ... refined cosmological models, and better atomic clocks will also help scientists shave down those experimental errors little by ...
	2017-09-20: The Future of Space Telescopes 08:46: ... by how water droplets focus light into colorful arcs across the sky, scientists have proposed we use photon pressure to suspend a cloud of tiny ... 09:11: Scientists could expand the aperture to tens of meter in diameter. 09:38: ... scientists can counter this by taking multiple exposures of the same target, and ... 08:46: ... by how water droplets focus light into colorful arcs across the sky, scientists have proposed we use photon pressure to suspend a cloud of tiny ... 09:11: Scientists could expand the aperture to tens of meter in diameter. 09:38: ... scientists can counter this by taking multiple exposures of the same target, and ...
	2017-08-30: White Holes 00:28: The astrophysical phenomenon of the black hole has captured the imagination of scientists and science enthusiastic alike for many decades.
	2017-08-16: Extraterrestrial Superstorms 09:01: ... are taken by JunoCam and incredibly processed by volunteer citizen scientists Look at the difference between these images from Hubble, Galileo, ... 10:37: Scientists are poring over this data right now. 10:40: And with the help from citizen scientists, perhaps like you, we're sure to unravel some of the secrets of the solar system's most powerful storms. 09:01: ... are taken by JunoCam and incredibly processed by volunteer citizen scientists Look at the difference between these images from Hubble, Galileo, ... 10:37: Scientists are poring over this data right now. 10:40: And with the help from citizen scientists, perhaps like you, we're sure to unravel some of the secrets of the solar system's most powerful storms.
	2017-06-28: The First Quantum Field Theory 09:40: ... example, it eventually allowed scientists to predict, with incredible precision, the tiny difference in atomic ...
	2017-05-10: The Great American Eclipse 05:27: These are called shadow bands, and they've perplexed scientists for a long time.
	2017-05-03: Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson 11:29: Therefore, scientists should come up with cosmologies that generate the most minds.
	2017-04-19: The Oh My God Particle 00:13: These ultra-high energy cosmic rays still perplex scientists. 01:03: ... Scientists analyzing the Fly's Eye data calculated that the cosmic ray responsible ... 11:35: Yet, and I even commiserated with rocket scientist friends when that happened. 00:13: These ultra-high energy cosmic rays still perplex scientists. 01:03: ... Scientists analyzing the Fly's Eye data calculated that the cosmic ray responsible ...
	2017-04-10: Here's Why I Love PBS 00:47: I graduated to "Carl Sagan's Cosmos," a show that, without question, inspired an entire generation of curious kids to become scientists.
	2017-03-15: Time Crystals! 08:24: Scientists are using the term discrete time crystals to describe such systems.
	2017-01-19: The Phantom Singularity 13:28: A scientist who decided to look into this has to divert grant money, lab space, personnel, and most critically a lot of their own time and energy. 15:19: Scientists do.
	2016-12-08: What Happens at the Event Horizon? 12:54: ... OK to be Smart's Joe Hanson to be picked for a panel titled, "We are All Scientists." Well, thanks to you guys, we're ...
	2016-11-09: Did Dark Energy Just Disappear? 00:08: A team of scientists have analyzed new data, and claim that we need to completely rethink its existence. 02:43: As with the initial discovery of dark energy, these scientists used Type 1-A supernovae to track the expansion history of the universe. 04:00: I want to talk about how scientists analyze astrophysical data like this, so let's talk numbers. 05:03: But given that many thousands of different experiments are being run by professional scientists at any one time, false 3-sigma results do happen. 05:22: Scientists like to get at least 5-sigma significance. 12:07: ... can be sure that many scientists will be taking a long and careful look at the evidence for dark energy, ... 00:08: A team of scientists have analyzed new data, and claim that we need to completely rethink its existence. 02:43: As with the initial discovery of dark energy, these scientists used Type 1-A supernovae to track the expansion history of the universe. 04:00: I want to talk about how scientists analyze astrophysical data like this, so let's talk numbers. 05:03: But given that many thousands of different experiments are being run by professional scientists at any one time, false 3-sigma results do happen. 05:22: Scientists like to get at least 5-sigma significance. 12:07: ... can be sure that many scientists will be taking a long and careful look at the evidence for dark energy, ... 04:00: I want to talk about how scientists analyze astrophysical data like this, so let's talk numbers.
	2016-10-19: The First Humans on Mars 10:54: ... scientists like that idea because we see some pretty gigantic supermassive black ...
	2016-10-12: Black Holes from the Dawn of Time 06:38: ... scientists think that the voracious feeding of lots of really big primordial black ...
	2016-09-21: Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate 01:27: But quantum mechanics is so bizarre that it still has scientists wondering if we need to reject even this basic premise.
	2016-09-07: Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer 03:42: Although, as a scientist, I'd need to test that before I ruled it out.
	2016-08-24: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere? 11:08: ... by Southwest in September, to do a panel that we're calling "We Are All Scientists." It will be with Joe Hanson, from "It's OK To Be Smart" and Katie Mack, ...
	2016-08-10: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past 11:49: In fact, impact by a primordial black hole was one of the hypotheses that Seveneves scientists proposed for the moon's inexplicable destruction.
	2016-05-25: Is an Ice Age Coming? 02:14: ... was Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch who realized that the gravitational tug of Jupiter ...
	2016-05-18: Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy 14:30: Inspire enough smart kids to become scientists instead of bankers, and it is well worth it.
	2016-05-04: Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed? 02:56: The first serious proposal along these lines was the Starwisp, proposed by scientist and author, Robert Forward, and updated by Geoffrey Landis.
	2016-03-30: Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners! 00:59: And that distance measurement allowed scientists to calculate the FRB power output as that of 500 million Suns.
	2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory? 12:11: But no credible scientist has ever said this nor believes it.
	2016-01-27: The Origin of Matter and Time 02:29: Bad scientist.
	2015-10-22: Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!? 08:33: But hundreds of scientists work on LIGO.
	2015-09-23: Does Dark Matter BREAK Physics? 07:30: There's a big fat Nobel Prize waiting for the scientists who figure this one out.
	2015-08-05: What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides! 00:52: Now, that explanation sounds plausible and a lot of well known scientists give it, but as we'll see, it's not correct.
	2015-04-29: What's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi? 06:43: ... Grazier, a planetary scientists formerly at NASA, who was also the science adviser for "Battlestar ...
	2015-04-08: Could You Fart Your Way to the Moon? 03:13: [FART NOISE] I'm a scientist, so I would prefer to measure this directly using the wind speed fan.
	2015-02-18: Is It Irrational to Believe in Aliens? 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] A lot of people, including many scientists, seem pretty confident that aliens have to exist somewhere in the universe. 01:30: Whenever anyone, even a scientist, quotes a number for the "probability" of life arising, it's pretty much a complete guess. 03:04: And scientists hate special, any kind of special. 06:40: Anyway, now you know how legit scientists and scholars handle the question of space aliens. 01:30: Whenever anyone, even a scientist, quotes a number for the "probability" of life arising, it's pretty much a complete guess. 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] A lot of people, including many scientists, seem pretty confident that aliens have to exist somewhere in the universe. 03:04: And scientists hate special, any kind of special. 06:40: Anyway, now you know how legit scientists and scholars handle the question of space aliens. 03:04: And scientists hate special, any kind of special.

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