Course Type: Science

Welcome to The Quantum World! This course is an introduction to quantum chemistry: the application of quantum theory to atoms, molecules, and materials. You’ll learn about wavefunctions, probability, special notations,…

Biomedical research today is not only rigorous, innovative and insightful, it also has to be organized and reproducible. With more capacity to create and store data, there is the challenge…

Super-Earths And Life is a course about life on Earth, alien life, how we search for life outside of Earth, and what this teaches us about our place in the…

How can you persuasively discuss the negative effects of climate change on human health to motivate change in your community? How do you encourage your friends, family, neighbors and community…

The vital signs – heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration rate, and pain – communicate important information about the physiological status of the human body. In this six-part course…

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. Yet these impacts to health are still not well recognized. Since you can’t change what…

This course will examine future climate change in the context of Earth history, and then consider various strategies for what might be done to deal with it. The likely impact…

Our world's climate is changing. Of the top twenty hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred in the last two decades. This warming has already had a profound effect. Many…

The journey explores the evolution of the universe, which is like a set of wonderful processes based on association, independence and evolution. It takes us to re-examine the dynamic interaction…

This course consists of a series of 20 interviews with scientists and environmentalists on the journey of the universe. The first 10 interviews are interviews with scientists and historians. They…