World Science Festival Courses

Gravitational Waves - Einstein’s Astrophysical Messengers

Explore gravitational waves and their detection with Gabriela González in this less than 1-hour material from World Science Festival. Uncover universe mysteries through LIGO experiments.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Special Relativity

Explore Einstein's insights into space, time, and energy with physicist Brian Greene in this 11-hour World Science Festival program. Requires high school algebra.

• YouTube
• 11 hours 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Fundamental Lessons From String Theory

Explore string theory with Harvard professor Cumrun Vafa and Brian Greene in this 2-3 hour material from World Science Festival. Dive into puzzles, black holes, and quantum gravity.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

On The Shoulders of Giants

Join the World Science Festival for a unique exploration of string theory with Harvard Professor Cumrun Vafa. Learn physics through innovative puzzles in less than an hour.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Exploring the Warped Universe

Join physicist Nergis Mavalvala in a less than 1-hour journey through the LIGO gravitational wave detectors' history and groundbreaking discovery, offered by World Science Festival.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Accelerating Universe

Explore the accelerating universe with Nobel Laureate Adam Riess and Brian Greene in this 3-4 hour program by World Science Festival. Delve into dark energy, relativity, and cosmology.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Fundamental Lessons from String Theory

Explore string theory's fundamentals with Cumrun Vafa at the World Science Festival. Learn about duality frames, space basics, quantum geometry, and entropy in under an hour.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Nature's Constituents

Explore the robustness of the Standard Model and the future of particle physics with Maria Spiropulu in this 1-2 hour material from World Science Festival.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Biology of Consciousness

Explore the biology of consciousness with neuroscientist Christof Koch in this less than 1-hour lecture from the World Science Festival. Delve into modern understanding, neural correlates, and theories.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Space, Time, and Einstein

Join physicist Brian Greene in a 2-3 hour World Science Festival masterclass exploring Einstein's special relativity, time travel, and space warps, with minimal math involved.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Accelerating Universe

Explore the mysteries of the accelerating universe with Nobel laureate Adam Riess in this less than 1-hour lecture by World Science Festival. Dive into dark energy and cosmic deceleration.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

What Sparked the Big Bang?

Explore the origins of the universe and the Big Bang with Brian Greene in this short, engaging program from the World Science Festival. Perfect for those with a passion for cosmology.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Repulsive Gravity, Dark Energy, and Accelerated Expansion

Explore the accelerating expansion of space with Brian Greene in this less than 1-hour session from World Science Festival. Understand gravity's repulsive nature and its impact on galaxies.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Einstein, The Big Bang, and the Expansion of the Universe

Explore Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications on the universe's expansion with Brian Greene in this less than 1-hour material from World Science Festival.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Curvature and Parallel Motion

Explore Einstein's theory of relativity and the mathematics of curvature with Brian Greene in this less than 1-hour offering from World Science Festival.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course