Inside the Massive Upgrade Transforming the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is undergoing its biggest upgrade yet as it prepares to become the High-Luminosity LHC.This episode explores how next-generation detectors, dramatically higher collision rate...
16 Aug 19min
NASA's Cold Atom Lab Is Pushing Physics to the Limit
A unique NASA experiment aboard the International Space Station is exploring some of the strangest phenomena in quantum physics.By cooling atoms to temperatures near absolute zero in the weightlessnes...
15 Aug 40min
How Ultracold Atoms Are Unlocking the Quantum World
Ultracold atom physics allows scientists to cool matter to temperatures just above absolute zero, revealing quantum phenomena on scales large enough to observe and control.Using laser cooling and othe...
14 Aug 22min
The Strange World of Wave-Particle Duality
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 as particles and as waves, depending on how they ar...
13 Aug 21min
Scientists Just Created Massive Schrödinger Cat States
Scientists have created unusually large “Schrödinger cat” quantum states using ultracold atoms trapped in laser-built structures, allowing clusters of matter to tunnel through barriers in ways previou...
10 Aug 19min
Scientists Think Dark Energy May Be Changing Over Time
Dark energy — the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe — may not be constant after all. New observations, including the growing “Hubble tension,” suggest the cosmos could be evo...
9 Aug 22min
Scientists May Have Found Why String Theory Keeps Reappearing in Physics
Physicists from California Institute of Technology and partner institutions have shown that key features of string theory may emerge naturally from a few fundamental assumptions about the universe.Usi...
6 Aug 20min
Could the Universe Be Hiding Undetectable Quantum Matter?
New research suggests the quantum nature of hypothetical axion dark matter may be fundamentally impossible to detect with current technology.Although axions should behave according to quantum physics,...
3 Aug 21min
