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How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 2
August 19, 2026 · 38 minIn the summer of 1945, the forbidding landscape of the New Mexico desert, known as the Jornada del Muerto, became the stage for the birth of the atomic age. At the center of this "Journey of Death," a 100-foot steel tower held "the…
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How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
August 12, 2026 · 48 minIn September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street. Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "moonshine," Szilard envisioned a nuclear…
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Can AI Save Particle Physics
August 5, 2026 · 33 minThe particle physics community reached a historic peak in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, a triumphant vindication of decades of theoretical and experimental work. However, in the years since, the initial excitement has faded…
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Future Circular Collider: The Most Expensive Machine in History
July 29, 2026 · 14 minThe Future Circular Collider (FCC) represents the most ambitious scientific instrument ever proposed—a subterranean ring 91 kilometers long that would dwarf the current Large Hadron Collider (LHC). At an estimated cost of 20 to 30 billion…
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What is the Smallest Particle in the Universe
July 23, 2026 · 22 minThe experience of mass is one of the most primal and intuitive aspects of our lives, yet its origin is one of the deepest mysteries in science. For centuries, mass was viewed as an innate quality of "stuff," but subatomic research has…
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How Feynman Diagrams Saved Physics
July 16, 2026 · 26 minOur everyday intuition suggests that empty space should be weightless, as there is seemingly "nothing" there; however, gravity measurements reveal that the vacuum actually holds a significant amount of energy or mass. In the early 1980s…
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Where Does Mass Come From
July 9, 2026 · 34 minThe experience of "mass" is so primal and intuitive that we rarely question its origins, yet it is one of the deepest and most complex stories in all of science. For centuries, mass was viewed as an innate quality of "stuff," but…
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A Star Is About To Go Supernova in Our Backyard
July 2, 2026 · 22 minIn this episode, we look at the terrifyingly unpredictable behavior of one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. While our Sun is a stable middle-aged star, Betelgeuse is a celestial sprinter nearing the final, volatile stage of…