PBS
First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
How do you see the unseeable - how do you explore the inescapable? Our cleverest astronomers have figured out ways to catch light that skims the very edge of black holes. Let’s find out what they learned. A few weeks ago a story made the...
Curated Video
Spot the Mistakes Maths Questions
Your task is to spot the mistakes in this students’ calculations of various maths questions. Detecting and correcting mistakes can be a powerful opportunity for enhancing your learning. Identifying mistakes can point out some common...
TED Talks
TED: Can math help repair democracy? | Sam Wang
Could math help make American democracy more responsive to the people? From detecting gerrymandered districts to predicting the impact of alternative election methods like ranked-choice voting, neuroscientist Sam Wang outlines how...
Curated Video
Repeating Patterns in Math: The Case of the Missing Pattern
Join Detective Taylor as you solve the case of the missing repeated picture patterns. Help her solve the case of the missing apples and corn. The Math Challenge is to create a paper chain that has a repeating color pattern. At the end of...
Curated Video
Adding Three Numbers
Good things come in threes, especially at the aquarium! Join Mia today as we learn to add three numbers together to find the total. Mostly, we've learned to add two numbers together, like 2+3, but today we are working with three charming...
PBS
How To Detect Faster Than Light Travel
New ReviewWarp drives may or may not be possible, but if they are then could a distant alien civilization’s warp fields produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth? According to a recent study.. Actually maybe, at least eventually....
PBS
How To Detect a Neutrino
Why is there something rather than nothing? Well the answer may be found in the weakest particle in the universe: the neutrino. For over half a century Fermilab has been the premier particle accelerator facility of the United States and...
Seeker
We’re Going to Detect More Gravitational Waves Than Ever Before, Here’s How
Once this $35 million upgrade is in place, LIGO will start using something called quantum "squeezed light." So, what does that mean exactly? LIGO's Gravitational Wave Discovery Is Still In Question, But Why? -...
Gresham College
How Maths Can Save Your Life - Professor Chris Budd OBE
Many of us have been in a medical scanner and benefited from its use in medical diagnostics. But how many of us have considered how it works? The maths behind modern medical imaging (showing how CAT, MRI and Ultrasound scanners work)...
World Science Festival
Cool Jobs: Forensic Detective
Chemist Raychelle Burks is on the front lines of forensic science, developing ways to detects drugs and explosives. Episode filmed live at the 2016 World Science Festival in New York CIty. To view the full Cool Jobs program from that...
World Science Festival
Cool Jobs: Fire Detective
Forensic science is under the microscope with Casie Parish Fisher who does research to figure out at what temperature DNA is destroyed..helping detectives tring to solve arson crimes. Episode filmed live at the 2018 World Science...
Seeker
‘Glowing Tumors’ Might Be the Next Step in Detecting Cancer
This new pill could help doctors fight cancer by making tumors glow and they can even detect some as small as 2cm. Here’s how it works. Some Popular Surgeries Are Just Placebos, Here’s Why They Still Exist - https://youtu.be/tFTDNotO0Hs...
World Science Festival
Cool Jobs: Ancient DNA Detective
Evolutionary paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro travels to the cold reaches of the world to find DNA samples of long extinct animals, such as mastodons and saber-toothed tigers. She hopes to learn more about what life was like for these...
World Science Festival
Cool Jobs: Da Vinci Detective
See how engineer and art historian Maurizio Seracini uses his pioneering multispectral imaging techniques and other tools to uncover the long-hidden stories behind masterpiece paintings. Episode filmed live at the 2009 World Science...
PBS
Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?
New ReviewA few weeks ago a large team of gravitational wave astronomers announced something pretty wild. The moderately confident detection of pervasive ripples in the fabric of space time that presumably fills the cosmos, detected by watching...
PBS
Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of...
TED Talks
Max Little: A test for Parkinson's with a phone call
Parkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a simple, cheap tool that in...
PBS
No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
We’ve been failing to detect dark matter for decades. Finally, the latest failure to detect dark matter may have actually proved its existence. One of these is true: either most of the matter in the universe is invisible and formed of...
PBS
The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
When we detected the very first gravitational wave, a new window was opened to the mysteries of the universe. We knew we’d see things previously thought impossible. And we just did - an object on the boundary between neutron stars and...
PBS
Can the Universe Remember? Exploring Gravitational Memory
New ReviewThere are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two colossal black holes spiraling into each other, yes they send ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves...
Crash Course
Playing with Power P-Values Pt 3 - Crash Course Statistics
We're going to finish up our discussion of p-values by taking a closer look at how they can get it wrong, and what we can do to minimize those errors. We'll discuss Type 1 (when we think we've detected an effect, but there actually isn't...
PBS
Venus May Have Life!
If you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to the front of the pack. In fact, we may have...
PBS
Black Hole Harmonics
When physicists talk about black holes they’re usually referring to highly theoretical objects – static, unchanging black holes viewed from “infinitely” far away. This makes everything clean and simple enough to attempt the already...