2026-10-24 · Future-gazing
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
by Charlie Wood
If space is made of quantum particles, what makes it bend under the weight of a star?
0:00 / 15:17 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-10-19 · Behind the news
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
by Konstantin Kakaes
If a machine solves a 160-year-old math problem, does it count before a human understands the proof?
0:00 / 11:33 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-10-15 · For the curious
How Does Touch Lead to Pain or Pleasure?
by Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz
Why does the exact same touch feel comforting from a friend but threatening from a stranger?
0:00 / 1:00:45 · Narrator Algieba
2026-10-07 · Behind the news
As AI Closed in on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines
by Ben Brubaker
0:00 / 27:58 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-10-07 · For the curious
Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
by Charlie Wood
How does a chaotic swarm of atoms create the perfectly smooth flow of a river?
0:00 / 18:28 · Narrator Algieba
2026-10-05 · Future-gazing
Is AI the End of Math as We Know It?
by Jordana Cepelewicz
When a machine skips straight to the answer, who is left to understand the math?
0:00 / 18:24 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-10-02 · For the curious
Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
by Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin
Why doesn't a table act like the quantum waves it's made of?
0:00 / 51:57 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-09-26 · For the curious
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
by Charlie Wood
If a three-dimensional world can fit on a flat surface, does space actually exist?
0:00 / 19:43 · Narrator Charon
2026-09-25 · For the curious
How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
by Jake Buehler
How much of evolution is driven by genes that refuse to stay put?
0:00 / 12:29 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-09-21 · Behind the news
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
by Ben Brubaker
If a mathematical proof is physically impossible to write down, is it still a proof?
0:00 / 13:42 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-09-19 · Behind the news
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
by Charlie Wood
0:00 / 41:54 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-09-16 · For the curious
Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.
by Matt von Hippel
If the new calculations are right, what was actually happening inside the old particle colliders?
0:00 / 12:06 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-09-15 · For the curious
In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible
by Charlie Wood
If quantum mechanics doesn't track objects moving through physical space, what exactly is it tracking?
0:00 / 12:55 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-09-09 · Behind the news
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
by Konstantin Kakaes
If ten thousand machines finish a math problem that humans started, whose discovery is it?
0:00 / 12:27 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-09-03 · Future-gazing
In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
by Rebecca Boyle
If a machine can answer any question, what happens to the conversations that start with not knowing?
0:00 / 11:59 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-08-29 · For the curious
Does Computer Science Need Computers?
by Ben Brubaker
If a computer scientist never touches a physical machine, what exactly are they studying?
0:00 / 14:36 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-08-25 · For the curious
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
by Conor Feehly
Does the brain see the world as it is, or as the body needs it to be?
0:00 / 16:20 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-08-21 · Future-gazing
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
by Ingrid Wickelgren
0:00 / 19:45 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-19 · For the curious
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
by Natalie Wolchover
How can something be mathematically true if no set of rules can ever prove it?
0:00 / 17:49 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-08-14 · For the curious
Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
by James Dinneen
0:00 / 20:39 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-08-14 · For the curious
Why Are Rivers so Mathematical?
by Natalie Wolchover
If water just flows blindly downhill, why do all rivers follow the exact same math?
0:00 / 13:30 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-08-11 · Behind the news
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
by Steve Nadis
Could the invisible matter holding galaxies together be tied to the energy pushing the universe apart?
0:00 / 11:31 · Narrator Algieba
2026-08-05 · Behind the news
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
by Carrie Arnold
Where do you look for the very first cell that learned to turn sunlight into sugar?
0:00 / 16:32 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-31 · For the curious
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
by Natalie Wolchover
How much of the world do you have to shut out to live inside a math problem?
0:00 / 24:15 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-26 · Future-gazing
The Dirt That Refused to Die
by Siddhant Pusdekar
If dead dirt keeps breathing, does the chemistry of life actually belong to living things?
0:00 / 11:54 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-18 · For the curious
Why Am I Left-Handed?
by Natalie Wolchover
If most animals don't favor one side, why are nine out of ten people right-handed?
0:00 / 15:39 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-07-16 · Future-gazing
Thermodynamic Computers Go with the (Energy) Flow
by Philip Ball
Could the random jiggle of atoms be used to solve problems instead of causing errors?
0:00 / 15:34 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-07-13 · Behind the news
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
by Rohini Subrahmanyam
Can a thick, gooey liquid be stretched until it snaps like a piece of glass?
0:00 / 9:29 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-07-08 · Behind the news
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
by Jay Bennett
If the oldest galaxies in the sky are behaving impossibly, how do you begin to redraw the universe?
0:00 / 15:11 · Narrator Rasalgethi
2026-06-25 · For the curious
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
by Simon Frantz
0:00 / 13:50 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-22 · Future-gazing
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
by Kevin Hartnett
What happens to the solitary act of discovery when a computer allows a thousand people to work together?
0:00 / 29:45 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-06-18 · Behind the news
Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
by Claire L. Evans
0:00 / 43:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
2026-06-18 · For the curious
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
by Natalie Wolchover
Why is the number of fundamental particles in the universe a question of scale rather than a fact?
0:00 / 14:37 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
2026-06-10 · Behind the news
Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required
by Kevin Hartnett
If a chemical puzzle, once a quantum target, is solved classically, what does that reveal?
0:00 / 14:19 · Narrator Sulafat
2026-06-01 · For the curious
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive
by Evan Howell
What makes the ocean's slow lava conveyor belt suddenly build islands?
0:00 / 14:23 · Narrator Gacrux
2026-05-24 · For the curious
Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up
by Konstantin Kakaes
What happens to the shape of mathematics when you decide to rebuild its foundation from dust?
0:00 / 28:52 · Narrator female