No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.

“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.

Physicists just can't leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.

Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.

Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.

Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.

Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.

When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:

Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.

The term "zero-point energy" has at least two meanings, one that is innocuous and one that is a great deal sexier (and scammier).

Our host Kmele went inside Fermilab, America’s premiere particle accelerator facility, to find out how the smallest particles in the universe can teach us about its biggest mysteries.

All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?

The combined intellectual heft of multiple “big thinkers” delivered arguably the most successful scientific theory in history.

When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.

There's a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.

From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?

The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.

The perfectly accessible, perfectly knowable Universe of classical physics is gone forever, no matter what interpretation you choose.

Is it like a tiny ball — or what?

When it comes to predicting the energy of empty space, the two leading theories disagree by a factor of 100 googol quintillion.

Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?

A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.

Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.

A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can't? No. But if they can calculate faster, that's quantum supremacy.

When the average person has a "theory," they're just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.

Gravity defies quantum mechanics. What does that mean for a theory of everything?