Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very ...

This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...

This ‘NOVA’ presentation helpfully and authoritatively guides viewers through the mind-boggling world of quantum physics.

Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon ... Development of a Simple ...

This so-called neutron lifetime problem has perplexed scientists for decades, but now physicists at TU Wien in Austria have come up with a possible explanation. The difference in lifetimes, they say, ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world. Physics experiments have changed the ...

A "zombie star" known as T Coronae Borealis could erupt this Halloween, offering a rare celestial show as it comes back to ...

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions ...

Scientists are rethinking the timing of Betelgeuse's supernova, as new research suggests the star may have a hidden companion ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...