Best Science

J. Kenji López-Alts masterpiece is the definitive guide to modern American home cooking. By applying the scientific method to everyday dishes, Kenji explains why certain techniques work and others fai...

Charles Darwin provided the unifying explanatory framework for all of biology with his theory of evolution by natural selection. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle provided observational evidence, but...

Peggy Whitson is a titan of modern spaceflight, holding the record for the most cumulative time in space by an American astronaut. A biochemist by training, she served as the first female commander of...

Narrated by Ray Porter, this sci-fi masterpiece is widely considered the gold standard for modern audiobooks. The story follows Ryland Grace, a man who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of how he...

Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, this successor to Carl Sagan's original series is a masterpiece of science communication. It explores the vastness of the universe, the laws of physics, and the history...

Harold McGees seminal work is the 'bible' of food science. While it contains few traditional recipes, it provides an exhaustive look at the history, chemistry, and biology of ingredients. It is the bo...

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in England and one of the world's oldest and most prestigious academic institutions. It operates through a unique system of 31 au...

Aristotle was the first great systematizer of knowledge in the Western world, creating foundational frameworks for logic, biology, physics, metaphysics, and ethics. While many of his physical theories...

Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, and cartographer who made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean. During these voyages, he achieved the...

Niels Bohr was the central figure in the development of quantum mechanics. His model of the atom, which introduced quantized electron orbits, was the first to successfully explain the stability of ato...

Nicolaus Copernicus initiated the Copernican Revolution by proposing a heliocentric model of the universe in his seminal work 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' (1543). Displacing Earth from the ce...

Louis Pasteur revolutionized medicine and biology by definitively disproving spontaneous generation and establishing the germ theory of disease. His experiments demonstrated that microorganisms cause...

Often called the father of modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier moved the field away from the mystical traditions of alchemy toward a rigorous, quantitative science. His discovery of the law of conserv...

The California Institute of Technology is a tiny but extraordinarily influential private research university in Pasadena, focusing on science and engineering. With a very small undergraduate populatio...

Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian polymath, geographer, and naturalist whose work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. His extensive travels through the Americ...

TED-Ed is an extension of the TED platform, focusing on short, animated lessons that cover a vast array of topics. Each video is a collaboration between educators and animators, resulting in highly en...

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. As the commander of Apollo 11, he represented the pinnacle of 20th-century e...

Cronometer stands out as the gold standard for users who prioritize data integrity and micronutrient tracking. Unlike competitors that rely on crowdsourced data, Cronometer uses verified, laboratory-t...

Rebecca Skloot tells the incredible true story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor tobacco farmer whose cellstaken without her knowledge in 1951became one of the most important tools in medicine. This book is...

This series takes a deep dive into the human body, exploring its systems and functions in detail. It uses animations and real-world examples to explain how our bodies work and why they sometimes fail.

Imperial College London is a public research university specializing exclusively in science, engineering, medicine, and business. Located in central London, it focuses on applying these disciplines to...

Walter Isaacson provides a definitive look at the life of Albert Einstein, the man who redefined our understanding of the universe. Drawing on newly released personal letters, Isaacson explores Einste...

Hidden Brain uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior. Hosted by Shankar Vedantam, the show explores topics ranging from social psychology to neurosci...

Dr. Stone offers a unique spin on the disaster genre: what happens after a global event turns all of humanity to stone? Thousands of years later, genius teenager Senku Ishigami awakens and decides to...

Galileo Galilei is the father of modern observational science, physics, and the scientific method. He championed Copernican heliocentrism through groundbreaking telescopic discoveries: the moons of Ju...

Derived from the massive, multi-volume 'Modernist Cuisine,' this version is tailored for the home cook who wants to experiment with advanced techniques like sous-vide, hydrocolloids, and pressure cook...

Carlo Rovellis 'The Order of Time' is a poetic and profound exploration of the nature of time. As a theoretical physicist, Rovelli explains how our common-sense understanding of timeas a linear, unive...

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game where you manage a group of colonists living inside an asteroid. You must manage their oxygen, temperature, food, and stress levels while building...

Max Planck is the originator of quantum theory. His discovery that energy is radiated in discrete 'quanta'rather than a continuous streamsolved the 'ultraviolet catastrophe' in black-body radiation. T...