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The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows people to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, theatrical works, interactive explorations, musical performances, intimate salons, and major outdoor experiences, the Festival takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and premier performing arts venues of New York City and beyond.

10/16/2026

When space and time changed forever.

10/16/2026

Only humans can cry or blush?

10/16/2026

Can something be in two places at once?

10/15/2026

What might happen to mathematics, and to mathematicians, when artificial intelligence can solve in hours or days what humans have struggled with for decades or longer?

Brian Greene reflects on OpenAl’s release of more than 700 papers, claiming progress on roughly 370 unsolved mathematical problems, and asks the question: Going forward, what will be the role of the human mathematician?

Will Al’s approach contain genuine insights or merely answers without understanding? Will human creativity and the flash of original insight still set us apart, and what would it mean if they don’t?

Greene concludes that the role of the mathematician may ultimately shift from solver to curator, critic, and conductor of an intelligence that now moves faster and perhaps deeper than we do. What does it mean to be a human thinker in an age when the machines may well surpass us?

10/11/2026

What is the double slit experiment?

10/09/2026

Could special relativity be wrong?

10/09/2026

What is the goal of string theory?

10/07/2026

A Brief Explainer from Brian Greene of Professor Francis Halzen’s 2026 Nobel prize-winning work in Physics — a breakthrough that will allow us to probe the cosmos in a new way.

Image Credit: © Pauli Archive, CERN

09/30/2026

Does the universe have any “purpose” or directionality, or is purpose a strictly human construct?

09/25/2026

How are physicists rethinking black holes?
Take a look back at this conversation with Samir Mathur on the World Science Festival YouTube channel titled “Black Holes May Not Be What We Thought”

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