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Dark matter has eluded us for many decades. Even our most advanced particle colliders and sophisticated underground detectors ...

All particles belong to two large groups: fermions like protons and electrons make everything we consider "matter", while bosons ...

Physics progresses by breaking our intuitions, but we're now at a point where further progress may require us to do away with the ...

The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the long-sought theory of quantum gravity. But what if this theory is as mythical as the ...

Quantum mechanics gets weirder as you go to smaller sizes and higher energies. It's strange enough for atoms, but positively ...

Objective Collapse Theories offer a explanation of quantum mechanics that is at once brand new and based in classical ...

Space is pretty deadly. But is it so deadly that we're effectively imprisoned in our solar system forever? Many have said so, but a ...

Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Richard Dyer & Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini ...

If we ever want to simulate a universe, we should probably learn to simulate even a single atomic nucleus. But it's taken some of ...

One of the most fundamental physics facts is that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant for all observers. But can we really be ...

When we scan the heavens with giant telescopes we see galactic cannibalism everywhere. We see moments that appear frozen ...

The Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the ...

Perhaps you've seen videos of how the planets of the solar system move through the universe in this cool helix. Not only are these ...

Life as we know it is carbon-based, but does it have to be this way? There's another element on the periodic table that shares ...

We're almost certainly the first technological civilization on Earth. But what if we're not? We are. Although how sure are we, really?

In the far future we may have advanced propulsion technologies like matter-antimatter engines and compact fusion drives that ...

The possibility that a black hole could actually impact Earth may seem straight out of science fiction, but the reality is that ...

I'm going to tell you about the craziest proposal for an astrophysics mission that has a good chance of actually happening. A train ...

Half of the universe is filled with expansionist alien civilizations, and it's only a matter of time before they'll reach us. OK, that ...