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...

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

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

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

One of the most popular ideas in physics right now is something named “ER = EPR.” This theory has it that entangled particles are actually l...

If it’s been a while since you’ve taken a chemistry class, you’re lucky – over time, the periodic table has been expanding as physicists pro...

String theory has changed the foundations of physics profoundly, and I for one am worried about its legacy.

The Riemann Hypothesis is an open problem in maths which – if proved correct – would show us a pattern in prime numbers. The zeta function, ...

The Boltzmann brain hypothesis states that, between the Big Bang occurring and a fully-formed brain suddenly popping into existence in space...

In this video I explain why I think it’s wrong to believe that the speed of light is an impossible to overcome limit. I am afraid that this ...

Friction affects almost everything around us. It makes cars drive, our muscles contract, and even helps us walk. But in terms of technology,...

As we continue to research quantum computing, quantum advantage – the supposed advantage that quantum computers theoretically have over regu...

Our universe is a very strange place, but a new dark matter simulation seems to suggest that we live in a particularly strange area in it. A...

Why does light exist? It's a consequence of what physicists call a "gauge symmetry" and in today's video I do my best to ...

In which I wonder whether we will just have to accept that the laws of nature are ugly

Why does space have 3 dimensions? Why not 2? Or 4? Or 7? It’s because physics wouldn’t work properly. Let’s take a look at the major reasons...

String theory was supposed to be physics’ grand theory of everything. While it’s (so far) failed in that aspect, string theory’s principles ...

A unified theory – that explains the interactions in the standard model of particle physics from one common origin – has been a goal of phys...

It’s a new year, and according to a new paper, physics is headed into a new era. Over the past few years, the field of physics has seen a m...

Physicists have theorized for decades that chaos doesn’t just destroy order, it can also create it. This could in turn mean that the laws of...