A second doesn’t always feel like a second—time can seem to slow down if you’re riding a death-defying roller coaster, or speed up while you’re having a night out on the town. But just what’s going on inside our heads to skew our perception of time?
Black holes may hold the key to understanding the most fundamental truths of the universe, but how do you see something that’s, well, black? Astronomers think they have the answer. …
In the future, a woman with a spinal cord injury could make a full recovery; a baby with a weak heart could pump his own blood. How close are we today to the bold promise of bionics—and could this technology be used to improve normal human functions, as well as to repair us?
Harvard professor and 2017 Breakthrough prize winner in Fundamental Physics, Cumrun Vafa joins Brian Greene for a discussion on the past and future of string theory and how puzzles ignited …
What happened to all of the universe’s antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an experiment to find out? In this program, particle physicists …
Neil Turok joins Brian Greene to describe his new ideas for curing the big bang singularity and providing a natural dark matter candidate, all while avoiding the conventional paradigm of …