Inside the Science Studios at Pioneer Works (Part I)

Black Holes—and pandemics—as a shared human experience: A year after the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first ever image of a black hole, we look back at the project with the founding director, Shepherd Doeleman, and black-hole physicist, Andrew Strominger.

Watch the captivating conversation between Nobel laureate and string theory pioneer David Gross, theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson, and Director of Sciences Janna Levin.

Famed scientists, primatologist Frans de Waal and cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss, on how non-human societies adapt during a crisis.

Watch a conversation on the crisis of nuclear waste with Peter Galison, best-selling author, physicist, filmmaker, and Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Janna Levin invites Yale professor and astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan and the University of Arizona professor and astrophysicist Feryal Özel to question if our very existence is contingent on the shepherding role of black holes in the history of the cosmos.

Brian has invested his intellectual energy communing with nature writ large in mathematics. He has shared with the world the attendant rewards of that effort: a fascinating portrait of a communal reality.

Watch the lively conversation about black holes, the universe, Penrose tilings, and consciousness.