A physicist built a mini-universe out of cold atoms and used it to test where time comes from. It made big headlines a few weeks ago, and I...

Putin's former thesis advisor is convinced that oil never runs out, and Russia is now drilling 8 kilometres into the ground to prove him...

Everywhere, it turns out, is warming faster than the rest of the world. Every region, every country, all of them, faster than the rest. You ...

In today's video I talk about some commonly misunderstood points in the double slit experiment.

A federal judge in the US has allowed a whistleblower lawsuit to go forward, in which a former official of the National Institutes of Health...

In Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity is always attractive. But according to a new paper, quantum mechanics offers a looph...

For over half a century, people taking the psychedelic drug DMT have reported meeting alien beings. Now a scientist says these aliens might ...

About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. To account for this observation, physicists came ...

The electric car revolution was supposed to be inevitable. But over the past six months it's begun to look shaky. The clearest warning s...

You might think that black holes suck in light without letting it escape, but they actually concentrate light in the photon sphere which sur...

One of the biggest limitations of quantum quantum computing is the “no cloning” theorem, which says you cannot copy a quantum state without ...

A new, computer-based calculation shows that our solar system used to have 5 or 6, rather than 4 gas giants. It seems that, billions of year...

Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an e...

Physicists have been arguing about dark matter for almost a century, and now, after all this time, their most favourite evidence for dark ma...

Quantum computing is supposed to be one of the most exciting new technologies that humanity is working on, with companies promising it can b...

Since the early days of quantum physics, some scientists have believed that there’s a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness. Whil...

In today's video I speculate about the future of AI

In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to aa my...

In the past months, several nuclear fusion startup have pivoted to selling other technologies and some have silently shifted their timelines...

As AI continues to improve its reasoning abilities, mathematicians are increasingly worried about the computer algorithms replacing them. In...