World Science Festival

In our latest World Science U Master Class, THE MONSTER AT THE HEART OF OUR GALAXY, 2020 Nobel Prize winner astrophysicist Andrea Ghez describes her search for the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and the role of black holes in the formation and evolution of galaxies. https://youtu.be/YcPPGVigvZk #WorldSciU

In World Science U's latest course release, BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES, neuroscientist and Duke University School of Medicine professor Miguel Nicolelis investigates how brains encode sensory and motor information. His groundbreaking work demonstrates that animals and humans can use their electrical brain activity to control neuroprosthetic devices with Brain Machine Interfaces and collaborate synchronistically. Click the link to sign up for the course and learn more.... https://bit.ly/3kinBd7 #worldsciu

What are scientists looking for when searching for alien life? Could alien life develop in unimaginable ways? In our latest World Science U course, FROM CHEMISTRY TO LIFE, astronomer and the founding director of Harvard University’s Origins of Life Initiative Dimitar Sasselov looks outside our solar system to examine the physical and chemical phenomenon of life. https://worldscienceu.com//from-chemistry-to-life-dimitar/ #WorldSciU

Join us tomorrow for a live Q+A with Nobel Prize Laureate Barry Barish and Brian Greene. They will discuss the latest gravitational waves detections from LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the challenges of experimental physics, and the future of particle physics. Brian Greene kicks off the conversation at 3:00pm EDT with Professor Barish joining at 4:00pm. Tune in to learn the latest and ask your questions. https://youtu.be/pMXSKt9g1TE ... #WorldSciU

Join us today for another live World Science U Q+A session with Brian Greene and Nobel Prize laureate, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and former president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Harold Varmus, M.D. Brian kicks off the session at 12:00pm EDT with Dr. Varmus joining him at 1:00pm. They will discuss some of the more pressing issues in science and medicine today. Get your questions ready and join the conversation. https://ww...w.youtube.com/watch #WorldSciU

"It's going to enable a lot of science to be done that was impossible to do in the past." 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Jennifer Doudna, who pioneered the gene-editing technology CRISPR, explains the potential of the discovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCC2oILE7i0

Congratulations to the 2020 Nobel laureates in chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. Their groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors in 2012 has taken the life sciences into a new era.