Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art...

Could the universe be conscious? Sounds a little crazy, but there are some prominent scientists and mathematicians that are taking the idea very seriously, and it could solve some ongoing mysteries about the universe… If it’s true, of course.

Alchemy is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.

Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.

Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?

Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960.

Particle astrophysicist David Saltzberg was the go-to science guy for The Big Bang Theory. He planned the craziness that appeared on the white boards, he added scientific props to the set, and he added science-y lines to the show's script. Ever wonder wha...

Are Space and Time real or just a manifestation of the human experience?

The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.

The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it's completely booked but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an i...

A thought experiment in quantum mechanics. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hou...

Can we accurately describe light as exclusively a wave or just a particle? Are the two mutually exclusive? In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality and its relationship to how we see light and, the...

If you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up? Could you keep on going forever? Or would you eventually find a set of indivisible building blocks out of which everything is made? J...

Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once?

From the first episode of Genius, starring Geoffrey Rush as the older Einstein and Johnny Flynn as the younger.