Condensed Matters

On the 29th of May, 1919 the moon eclipsed the sun to allow a thin ray of light from the Hyades star cluster to fall into Sir Arthur Eddington’s telescopes. Through his observations, he proved that light did not travel on straight lines around the sun, but rather on curved ones that deflected light. Eddington's announcement made headlines, catapulting Einstein’s fame in the English-speaking world.

Cognitive neuroscientist Elizaveta Solomonova talks about the complicated boundaries between different states of consciousness such as dreaming and wakefulness.

In this animated short produced by Massive Science, astrophysicists Priyamvada Natarajan and Feryal Özel discuss the origins and importance of black holes.

Nearly 25% of the universe’s content hides in an unknown form: Dark Matter. Despite decades of effort to detect dark matter, the substance eludes us. In this animated short, Janna Levin considers the question: What Is Dark Matter?

In this animated short, Max Tegmark, Director of the Future of Life Institute and MIT professor, considers if humanity’s role in evolution will be to initiate the era of Artificial Intelligence at the peril of our own species.

In this animated short, cosmologist Pedro Ferreira considers the most pressing question facing cosmology: What Is Dark Energy?

In this animated short, data and behavioral researcher Simon Garnier and biologist and entomologist Corrie Moreau discuss the peculiar emergence of swarm behavior in the natural world.

In this animated short, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore muses over the human implications of genetic engineering.