Big Ideas in Physics

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) How's it all gonna end? This experience ... (2021)

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John Mather illuminates the universe's deepest mysteries. In this episode, we delve into the search for extrater... (2023)

Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan is a Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. Her latest book is Mapping the Heavens: Th... (2021)

Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connect... (2018)

The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathemati... (2018)

An idea for an experiment that could unite the stubborn fields of quantum mechanics and general relativity has been given new life by two groups of... (2018)

In this lighthearted talk Dominic Walliman gives us four guiding principles for easy science communication and unravels the myth that quantum physi... (2018)

Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how... (2017)

An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. (2017)

New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” (2018)

Anil Ananthaswamy parses Sabine Hossenfelder’s analysis of why the field is at an impasse. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has ruled out many ... (2018)

Our discipline is a dialogue with nature, not a monologue, as some theorists would prefer to believe (2018)

The Guardian Published on Sep 23, 2013 No time to read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha expl... (2018)

Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature. (2018)

"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature." (2018)

Scientists announce the strongest evidence yet that dark matter is lurking in our galaxy — and maybe even our solar system (2018)

The Physics Travel Guide is a tool that makes learning physics easier. Each page here contains three layers which contain explanations with increas... (2018)

This might surprise you, but there may be literally thousands, or even tens of thousands, of devices and components surrounding you right now that ... (2018)

- Issue 54: The Unspoken - Nautilus, 2017: "Modern physics has taught us that mass is not an intrinsic property. Now comes the shock. In the ... (2017)

Conflicting measurements of particle's lifetime could point to exotic new physics. (2019)

Flickers of light from the edge of the cosmos help physicists advance the idea that the future is not predetermined (2018)

Two physicists, Peter Higgs of Britain and François Englert of Belgium, on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics. But just what is the Higgs Boson? (2019)

Natalie Wolchover writes about physicists’ effort to find laws that explain the physical world and the nature of the universe. (2019)

No new particles have been found at the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs boson in 2012, but physicists say there’s much we can still learn fro... (2019)

In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence ... (2019)

The idea is something of a technicality, but nevertheless an interesting one. “... use some mathematical wizardry to show that tidal forces are ... (2019)

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has ... (2020)

How does our universe work? Scientist Stephen Wolfram opens up his ongoing Wolfram Physics Project to a global effort. His team will livestream wor... (2020)