The Most Unknown

Motherboard travels to Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, the world's second largest radio telescope. Constructed in 1963, Arecibo is used by scientists to transmit signals to alien life, search for exoplanets, and to defend Earth from asteroids.

In episode nine of The Most Unknown, neuroscientist Anil Seth and cognitive psychologist Laurie R. Santos travel to Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago, a small island home to over a thousand monkeys where scientists study human cognition.

In episode eight of The Most Unknown, physicist Jun Ye, builder of the world’s most powerful atomic clock, travels to England to undergo consciousness experiments with neuroscientist Anil Seth.

Geobiologist Victoria Orphan travels to a basement lab in Colorado to untangle questions of space and time with physicist Jun Ye, the creator of the world’s most precise atomic clock.

In episode five of The Most Unknown, astrophysicist Rachel Smith and astrobiologist Luke McKay travel to Hawaii’s powerful W.M. Keck Observatory to explore forming stars at the center of our galaxy.

In episode three of The Most Unknown, dark matter physicist Davide D’Angelo travels to Belgium to explore consciousness experiments using mind-controlled limbs at psychologist Axel Cleermans’s lab.

In episode two of The Most Unknown, Motherboard travels to Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory with physicist Davide D'Angelo and geomicrobiologist Jennifer Macalady for an early look at SABRE, a new dark matter experiment.

In episode one of The Most Unknown, microbiologist Jennifer Macalady, along with a team of divers, spelunk through Italy’s water-rich Frasassi Caves to search for mysterious microbes that could hold clues to the origins of life on Earth.