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Did Physicists Just Rediscover String Theory?
Season 1 Episode 75
A surprising new study suggests that some of the key features of string theory may emerge naturally from a handful of basic physical principles.
Inste…
an hour ago
Is Your Sense of Self an Illusion?
Season 1 Episode 74
Modern neuroscience and ancient philosophy converge on a provocative idea: the self may not be a fixed entity, but a dynamic story constructed by the…
1 day, 1 hour ago
A New Way to Entangle Light and Matter
Season 1 Episode 73
Researchers at Rice University have proposed a method for dramatically enhancing quantum entanglement between light and matter by pushing materials t…
2 days, 1 hour ago
What Happens When You Cut a Photon in Half?
Season 1 Episode 72
A new theoretical study suggests that dividing a single photon leads to a surprising quantum outcome. Instead of breaking into smaller pieces, the di…
3 days, 1 hour ago
Why Physics Still Can’t Explain Most of the Universe
Season 1
Modern physics faces a profound challenge: its two most successful theories, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, describe reality in fundamenta…
4 days, 1 hour ago
Inside the Massive Upgrade Transforming the Large Hadron Collider
Season 1
The Large Hadron Collider is undergoing its biggest upgrade yet as it prepares to become the High-Luminosity LHC.
This episode explores how next-gener…
5 days, 1 hour ago
NASA's Cold Atom Lab Is Pushing Physics to the Limit
Season 1
A unique NASA experiment aboard the International Space Station is exploring some of the strangest phenomena in quantum physics.
By cooling atoms to t…
6 days, 1 hour ago
How Ultracold Atoms Are Unlocking the Quantum World
Season 1 Episode 70
Ultracold atom physics allows scientists to cool matter to temperatures just above absolute zero, revealing quantum phenomena on scales large enough …
1 week ago
The Strange World of Wave-Particle Duality
Season 1 Episode 69
Wave-particle duality is one of the most profound and puzzling ideas in modern physics. Experiments have shown that light and matter can behave both …
1 week, 1 day ago
Scientists Just Created Massive Schrödinger Cat States
Season 1 Episode 68
Scientists have created unusually large “Schrödinger cat” quantum states using ultracold atoms trapped in laser-built structures, allowing clusters o…
1 week, 4 days ago