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After seeing mysterious flashes of light in space, Apollo astronauts started one of NASA's strangest experiments.

Billions of neutrinos pass through us every minute, but physicists recently found 28 neutrinos so special that they got their own names.

The great mathematician's brain was mislabeled 150 years ago, leading to a modern day mystery that raises questions about the nature of genius.

Black holes that formed in the first few minutes after the big bang could be responsible for dark matter, but new results suggest they must also be extremely small.

Can dolphin sonar out-perform man-made sonar? Physicist Tim Leighton has a hunch that it can, and his pursuit of this question helped him create a new take on traditional radar technology.

Mike explores the pros and cons of a new kind of nuclear reactor: thorium molten salt reactors.

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland found the Higgs Boson last year, a feat that led to a Nobel Prize earlier this month. But there's still one other collider left in the U.S.: Brookhaven Lab's RHIC.

Alfonso Cuaron, the director of the new movie Gravity, had to re-create weightlessness for his sci-fi thriller. So how do filmmakers simulate weightlessness, and how close is their movie magic to reality?

The Curiosity Rover has found water on Mars, but no methane in the atmosphere. What does this mean for potential life on Mars?

"God does not play dice with the Universe." This famous Einstein quote displays his staunch rejection of quantum mechanics during his lifetime.

But Einstein made huge, under-appreciated contributions to quantum mechanics, even though he renounced his own work.