What Role Does Our Microbiome Play in a Healthy Diet? - With Tim Spector
Tim Spector explores the crucial role of the microbiome in our diet and overall health, challenging conventional nutrition wisdom and offering insights on improving gut diversity for better well-being.
How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are - With Kevin Mitchell
Explore how brain wiring shapes individual differences in personality, intelligence, and behavior. Discover the interplay between genetics, development, and experience in forming our unique selves.
The World Under a Microscope - With Marty Jopson
Explore the microscopic world with Marty Jopson as he reveals hidden wonders, from everyday objects to advanced scientific techniques, in this captivating and visually stunning presentation.
Surviving the Century
Exploring humanity's future: biotech, cyber, robotics, and space advancements offer promise, but also pose risks. Sir Martin Rees examines societal challenges and potential solutions.
What Makes a Memory Come Alive? - With Jon Simons
Explore the neuroscience behind vivid memories, their importance to our identity, and the brain regions involved in remembering. Discover how memory affects reality perception and its implications for mental health.
Do Your Genes Make You Fat? - With Giles Yeo
Explore the genetic factors influencing appetite control and obesity with neuroscientist Giles Yeo. Discover how our genes interact with lifestyle changes to affect body weight and food motivation.
New Discoveries in Population Genetics - With Enrico Coen
Explore adaptive change and population transformation through snapdragon genetics. Discover how genes and environment interact to drive evolutionary paths in this insightful lecture by biologist Enrico Coen.
The Physics of Life - How Water Folds Proteins
Explore water's crucial role in protein folding and life, from its universal solvent properties to its impact on biological components, with insights from cutting-edge research and experiments.
How Your Brain Organizes Information
Explore cognitive maps and how the brain organizes information for flexible behavior. Learn about hippocampal neurons, non-spatial mapping, graph theory, latent spaces, and factorized representations in neuroscience.
Carbohydrates - Haworth and Fischer Projections With Chair Conformations
Learn to convert Fischer projections of glucose to Haworth projections and chair conformations. Covers monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides, and key concepts in carbohydrate chemistry.
The Immcantation Suite - A Collection of Open Source Software Tools to Study Antibodies
Explore Immcantation: open-source tools for antibody analysis. Translate genetic codes into immune system insights using Python and R packages, available as a Docker container with example workflows.
Karl Friston – Deep Inference
Karl Friston explores the connection between perceptual inference and decision-making in cognitive neuroscience, examining whether these seemingly different processes share underlying information theoretic principles.
Stuart Hameroff - Anesthetic Action on Quantum Terahertz Oscillations in Microtubules
Explore quantum oscillations in microtubules and their role in consciousness, including anesthetic effects and the Orch OR theory, with insights from Stuart Hameroff.
Chasing Memories
Exploring synaptic dynamics in memory formation, focusing on competitive mechanisms that lead to long-term memory emergence in neural networks and their implications for understanding human memory.
Synergistic Workspace for Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomp
Exploring brain's information processing architecture and its role in consciousness through integrated information decomposition, revealing a synergistic global workspace crucial for conscious experience.
Endoplasmic Reticulum Structure & Function
Comprehensive exploration of endoplasmic reticulum structure and function, covering both rough and smooth ER, their roles in protein synthesis, lipid metabolism, and cellular processes.
Sound, Ears, Brains and the World
Explore auditory processing, sound perception, and the brain's ability to distinguish multiple sound sources. Learn about computational modeling and the "Cocktail Party problem" in this insightful lecture by MIT Professor Josh McDermott.
Differences Between Neural Networks and the Brain
Explore the similarities and differences between neural networks and the brain in this panel debate featuring leading experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Explore MIT Today - Reverse Engineering the Mind - Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Panel discussion exploring brain science, AI, and human intelligence, covering neural processing, learning, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, and ethical considerations in cognitive research.
The Parahippocampal Place Area Studied with fMRI
Explores the parahippocampal place area's role in scene recognition using fMRI, discussing methodological considerations and replication in cognitive neuroscience research.
Why Genes in Pieces?
Explore the surprising discovery of introns in eukaryotic genomes, their prevalence, size, and functions. Learn about ongoing research into these gene pieces and their impact on molecular biology.