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Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty explore physics to better understand and predict the world around us.
Metamaterials are special structures made of tiny components that give them unique electromagnetic properties not found in nature. One key f...
Sir John Pendry is the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology. He serves as a professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at Impe...
How much do we really know about the quantum nature of space and time, the origins of the universe itself, and its most mysterious phenomena...
The 2023 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, Professor Elliott Lieb presents snapshots of his seventy-year journey through the world of...
Nobel Laureate and physicist Barry Barish, professor at UC Riverside, reflects on his life in science, being curious, experiencing imposter...
Carver Mead is a pioneer of modern microelectronics. He proposed a new methodology, very large-scale integration (VLSI), that would make it...
The American Physical Society has designated UC San Diego’s Mayer Hall as a historic site in recognition of research conducted by physicists...
The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time...
Julio Barreiro Guerrero grew up in a public housing project in Acapulco de Juarez. Inspired by a junior high teacher, he found his passion f...
Victor Minces teaches the science of music. He seeks to transform our perception of everyday experiences by revealing the physics behind the...
Proteins are nature’s machines, performing tasks from transforming sunlight into useable energy to binding oxygen for transport through the...
Particle accelerators have been revolutionizing discoveries in science, medicine, industry and national security for over a century. An esti...
Do complex systems exhibit fundamental properties? This talk looks at tradeoffs between robustness and fragility that occur in biological, e...
Lakshana Huddar, Berkeley: How to Build an Advanced Nuclear Reactor in a University Laboratory Series: "Women in Science" [Science] [Show ID...
The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson completes a powerful and comprehensive description of nature known as the standard model of particle p...
Tianyu Liu, Santa Cruz: Enhancing the Performance of Supercapacitors Through Facilitation of Ion Diffusion Series: "Women in Science" [Scien...
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is the world's largest and most powerful laser sys...
A simple question from his wife – Does physics really allow people to travel back in time? – propelled physicist Richard Muller on a quest t...
A brief overview of how UC San Diego scientists are leading the next revolution in biology. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30564]
Explore the dust between the stars - and why it is so important, see how researchers explore molecules on the nanoscale to improve materials...
Joseph Polchinski explores the battle in physics: either quantum mechanics must break down, or our understanding of spacetime must be wrong....
We are visual beings, and qualities such as “insight” and “vision” describe our understanding well beyond sensory input. Light and more gene...
Blue LED and Prospects for the Lighting Industry with Shuji Nakamura. Energy Savings and Future Directions in Solid State Lighting with Stev...
The Double-Heterostructure Concept: How it Got Started with Herbert Kroemer. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with John Bowers. Light, N...
Patrick Sanan, who studied mathematics at UC San Diego, explains how he combined geometry and physics to devise the mathematics that made po...
UCSB’s Joseph Polchinski speaks about the search for a unified theory of the laws of physics, and the difficulty of reconciling two of the m...
Holy hairball! Smart Puppy shows how small a nanodot is! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30081]
Smart Puppy shows why a super conductor is super! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30080]
Hang on to your frozen butts! Smart Puppy’s kitty buds take a wild-ride on Boaz Almog’s fantastic frozen flying saucer! Series: "UCTV Prime"...
Shuji Nakamura discusses the way in which his invention grew to be what it is by starting with the work of growing high-quality gallium nitr...
Smart Puppy’s furry friends discover teensy-weensy magnets! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28714]
Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics f...
Smart Puppy and friends find the tiniest magnet! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28917]
Smart Puppy shows his pals when a magnet is not a magnet. Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28916]
Smart Puppy and friends play with peanuts! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28915]
Smart Puppy and friends do an amazing trick with a really teeny-tiny tennis ball! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show...
George Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. Series: "Lawrence Berke...
The UC San Diego Library Channel presents a talk by William Lanouette, author of “Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard.” Lanoue...
Soil scientists are using a non-toxic chemical at construction sites to remove dirt from muddy stormwater before it reaches streams. From In...
Part of the Behind the Scenes series at Berkeley Lab, this video highlights the lab's mechanical fabrication facility and its exceptional ab...
Electrical engineering students designed a special glove that can act as a simpler, more natural remote control for a variety of different d...
A lively and wide-ranging visit with Albert Fert, life-long rugby player and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of an...
A virtual reality room called StarCAVE takes scientific exploration, and potentially home entertainment, to a whole new level. From Inside S...
Friends and colleagues gather to discuss the life and work of Nobel Prize recipient Herbert Kroemer. Series: "Voices" [Science] [Show ID: 25...
Retinal-imaging method uses adaptive optics. From Inside Science TV, supported by the American Institute of Physics and a group of science,...
Berkeley Lab's Science at the Theater traveled across the Bay to San Francisco's Herbst Theater for a star turn by two of the Lab's Nobel la...
Quantum simulation seeks to use the precision and control of ultracold atomic physics to address questions regarding the many-body quantum m...
Kumar Patel came to UCLA from a successful career at Bell Labs. He invented the carbon dioxide laser and has been nominated for a Nobel Priz...
If you're a chamber music fan and you find Wigmore, Alice Tully and Carnegie halls not nearly exclusive enough, consider UCLA's Clark Librar...