May 19 Scientists hope to make matter from light, proving Einstein’s theory By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In the next year, scientists hope to create matter from beams of light. A study published in Nature Photonics on Sunday explains how modern lasers could finally prove an 80-year-old theory of physics. Continue reading
Apr 28 Physicist who contributed to discovery of Higgs boson dies By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Gerald Guralnik, one of the physicists who developed the Higgs theory in the 1960s, died on April 26 at the age of 77. Continue reading
Feb 19 Physicist-turned-filmmaker captures seven years of ‘Particle Fever’ By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Theoretical physicist David Kaplan spent seven years filming the hunt for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. “Particle Fever” captures the sheer excitement the moments before the collider first turned on and the distress in the… Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Scientists search for understanding of dark matter By Miles O'Brien, PBS News Hour At the bottom of a nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, scientists at one of the world's most sophisticated particle physics observatories are investigating one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark matter? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien helps… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch "Lab before blab" lights up elementary school science Fourth graders build a basic circuit. Fifth graders learn force to throw a rubber cat. Continue watching
Mar 26 Watch Wu Tang Clan’s GZA Raps About Science Wu Tang Clan's GZA performs a rap from his new album Dark Matter. Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch What the ‘Rock Star’ Discovery of the Higgs Boson Means for Science What the 'Rock Star' Discovery of the Higgs Boson Means for Science… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch Physicists Discover Clear Evidence of Elusive Higgs Boson Scientists announced on Wednesday they have evidence of the much sought-after Higgs boson, a subatomic particle thought to endow all other particles -- and by extension all matter in the universe -- with mass. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News… Continue watching