How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street.Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "mo...
12 Aug 48min
Can AI Save Particle Physics
The particle physics community reached a historic peak in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, a triumphant vindication of decades of theoretical and experimental work.However, in the years sin...
5 Aug 33min
What is the Smallest Particle in the Universe
The experience of mass is one of the most primal and intuitive aspects of our lives, yet its origin is one of the deepest mysteries in science. For centuries, mass was viewed as an innate quality of "...
23 Jul 22min
How Feynman Diagrams Saved Physics
Our everyday intuition suggests that empty space should be weightless, as there is seemingly "nothing" there; however, gravity measurements reveal that the vacuum actually holds a significant amount o...
16 Jul 25min
Where Does Mass Come From
The experience of "mass" is so primal and intuitive that we rarely question its origins, yet it is one of the deepest and most complex stories in all of science. For centuries, mass was viewed as an i...
9 Jul 33min
A Star Is About To Go Supernova in Our Backyard
In this episode, we look at the terrifyingly unpredictable behavior of one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. While our Sun is a stable middle-aged star, Betelgeuse is a celestial sprinter...
2 Jul 21min
How Stars Forge Heavy Elements
In this episode, we journey inside the cosmic engine room of the universe to explore the spectacular science of stellar nucleosynthesis. We begin in 1952 with American astronomer Paul Willard Merrill,...
25 Jun 23min
