Since 2016, the World Science Festival teams in Brisbane and New York have joined forces to bring world-class science programs to our audiences through live conversations, debates, exhibits, demonstrations and performances.

 

In March each year, we’ve looked forward to welcoming World Science Festival co-founders Brian Greene and Tracy Day, along with renowned scientists, philosophers, authors and artists from around the world, to the Festival in Brisbane.

 

All year round you can enjoy videos from World Science Festival New York with some of their most popular and intriguing content and previous world premiere events. Binge them all and check out our YouTube channel for more fascinating programs!

November 29, 2024 • 41min

Crafting Qubits: Harnessing Quantum Mechanics for Computation

How do we actually create and manipulate qubits, essential for realizing quantum computation? Chief Scientist of Hardware Technology Development at Quantinuum, Patty Lee, joins Brian Greene to discuss various quantum strategies, their achievements to date and pathways forward.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

October 29, 2024 • 1hr 35min

Straight talk on Quantum Computing

Scott Aaronson, renowned computer scientist known for his no nonsense take on, well, everything, joins Brian Greene to demystify the state of quantum computation, AI, and much more.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

October 29, 2024 • 35min

Beyond Planets: The Quest for Exomoons

We’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets, but what about exomoons? Astronomer David Kipping joins Brian Greene to explore the ongoing search for exomoons—lesser-known, but intriguing potential habitats for life beyond Earth.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

October 1, 2024 • 45min

Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality

Are quantum computers the game-changer they’re described to be, or is the promise of exponential speedup overblown? Join pioneer Seth Lloyd and Brian Greene as they discuss how the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics are leveraged by quantum computers, and the algorithmic challenges in achieving the promised exponential power.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

October 1, 2024 • 1hr 9min

Roger Penrose: Time, Black Holes, and the Cosmos

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose joins Brian Greene to explore some of his most iconic insights into the nature of time, black holes, and cosmological evolution.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

August 23, 2024 • 34min

Do We Owe It All To Asteroids?

Did the molecules that make up life ride to earth on an asteroid? Planetary scientists Jessica Barnes and Phil Bland join Brian Greene to discuss NASA’s recent rendezvous with Bennu, a near earth asteroid, seeking insight into the origins of life.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

August 23, 2024 • 45min

Can AI Read Your Mind?

By identifying patterns in neural firings, non-invasive AI systems are learning to decode human thought and translate the result into language. Leading researchers Michael Blumenstein and Jerry Tang join Brian Greene to describe the latest achievements of such “mind reading technologies” and where this research may shortly take us.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

August 23, 2024 • 45 min

What Creates Consciousness?

Renowned researchers David Chalmers and Anil Seth join Brian Greene to explore how far science and philosophy have gone toward explaining the greatest of all mysteries, consciousness–and whether artificially intelligent systems may one day possess it.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

July 15, 2024 • 1hr 29min

Epic Expansion: The Case for Inflationary Cosmology

For decades, inflation has been the dominant cosmological scenario, but recently the theory has been subject to competition and critique. Two renowned pioneers of inflation — Alan Guth and Andrei Linde — join Brian Greene to make their strongest case for the inflationary theory.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

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