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Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts that had our audience wondering.

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts. Plus, we revisit some of our ...

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After a year of near-daily headlines about changes to vaccine policy, what has actually changed? And what do we need to know?

Comet 3I/Atlas is just the third known object to visit us from outside our solar system. So yes... we'll be talking about aliens.

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