Peering behind the comms curtain at the world's most famous particle physics lab
Jul 2022
The mysterious particles of physics, part 3
The smaller the thing you look at, the bigger the microscope you need to use. That’s why the circular Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where they discovered the Higgs boson is 27 kilometres long, and its detectors tens of metres across. But to dig deeper still into the secrets of t ... Show More
27m 36s
Aug 2022
52 - The Large Hadron Collider and All Its Glory
<p>We pick up last episode's theme of particle colliders and dive into the most exciting one running today - the LHC. What is it, how does it work, and what new physics can it still reveal?<br/><br/>For ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon ... Show More
28m 7s
Jul 2018
Inside the Test Chamber for NASA's Astronaut Vehicle Double
Inside an 80-foot-tall chamber on Lockheed Martin’s Denver-area campus, backgrounded by red-rock ridges, stands a hulking spacecraft. You have to crane your neck to see the top of the apparatus. At the bottom, wires spew from a porthole to snake up and down and away. The cylindri ... Show More
8m 55s
Jul 2022
The mysterious particles of physics, part 2
Episode 2: Lost in the DarkPhysics is getting a good understanding of atoms, but embarrassingly they’re only a minor part of the Universe. Far more of it is made of something heavy and dark, so-called dark matter. The scientists who discovered the Higgs boson ten years ago though ... Show More
33m 23s