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The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in New York City. The Foundation's mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. The World Science Festival's signature event is an annual celebration and exploration of science that launched in 2008. Hailed a "new cultural institution," by The New York Times. The Festivals have attracted almost one million visitors, and millions more have viewed the programs online. The World Science Festival also produces year-round live programming in New York City, nationally and internationally.
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Cool Jobs: NASA astronaut Michael Massimino
NASA astronaut Michael Massimino talks about the “right stuff” you need to work in space—a health... -
Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
The multiverse hypothesis, suggesting that our universe is but one of perhaps infinitely many, sp... -
Infinity: The Science of Endless
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man," said David Hilb... -
The Biggest Questions of Cosmology: Pondering the Imponderables
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Is our universe unique or one of many? What happened before the Big Bang? Wh... -
Meet Amber Straughn, NASA Astrophysicist
Amber Straughn brings you on her journey from the big sky of her hometown in Arkansas to studying... -
Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
Brian Greene moderates this fascinating program exploring the fundamental principles of Quantum P... -
How Do You Observe a Black Hole?
Black holes may hold the key to understanding the most fundamental truths of the universe, but ho... -
Brian Greene on the first-ever image of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope
On April 10, 2019, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope announced a result that will chang... -
How Does Teleportation Work?
The idea that something—or someone?—can be dematerialized in one place and then reconstituted som... -
Brian Greene explains some math behind the Higgs Boson
Watch an overview of the math behind the Nobel Prize-winning Higgs Boson discovery with Brian Gre... -
Time Since Einstein
Albert Einstein shattered previous ideas about time, but left many pivotal questions unanswered: ... -
Why does time slow for clocks in motion?
Here’s a quick way to understand why time slows for an object in motion—the subject of this week’...