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How did we discover black holes?
What convinced people that black holes are real?
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What happened to the Superconducting Supercollider?
Americans had the biggest colliders in the world, until they tried to build one that was too big. Hear the super story of the superlative supercollid…
5 years, 10 months ago
Do protons live forever?
Electrons can hang out until the end of time. Physicists think that protons should eventually fall apart. But will they?
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5 years, 10 months ago
Special 200th episode!
What happened in the first 200 microseconds of the Universe? What can you see within 200 light years from Earth?
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Did the XENON experiment just discover a weird axion?
Recent results from the XENON experiment could be the first hint of something groundbreaking... or it could be nothing.
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How did supermassive black holes get so big?
The gargantuan black holes at the centers of galaxies seem impossibly large. How did they grow so large in the short history of our Universe?
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5 years, 10 months ago
The Marvelous Mystery of the Muon Magnetic Moment
Can physicists discover new particles by watching how muons wiggle in magnetic fields?
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5 years, 10 months ago
Is dark matter hot?
Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know if it's hot (or not!)
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5 years, 10 months ago
How was the Higgs boson discovered?
Hear the story of the multi-decade trans-Atlantic rivalry that led to the Higgs boson discovery.
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5 years, 10 months ago
What are quasi-particles
Daniel and Jorge talk about phonons, magnons, excitons, anyons and explainons.
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