Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. When the Soviet Union falls, ...

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

Modern physics is weird. Quantum mechanics gives us Schrödinger's cat, simultaneously alive and dead. Relativity gives us the twin paradox, where a spacefaring twin ages more slowly. But what if we ...

For over a century, scientists have thought of time as a fundamental property of the universe. But the more researchers seek to understand time’s ultimate nature and the mechanics behind its emergence ...

The Broadway cast of Just in Time will perform at the 2026 edition of A Capitol Fourth, which will take place at the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Friday, July 3, in celebration of the 250th ...

PBS will help Americans celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary over the Fourth of July weekend with live broadcasts of two marquee events. This year’s event will feature performances from Patti ...

(via PBS Space time) Don’t panic, but it's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind you right now. Don’t bother looking—you won’t see it. You won’t know that it’s growing to envelop you ...

Montclair State University has been selected as the new operator of NJ PBS, the university said Wednesday. A proposal calls for the university and its College of Communication and Media to manage the ...

Shares of SpaceX opened at $150 on Friday after being priced at $135 in the largest initial public offering in history. Listed on the Nasdaq under the SPCX ticker, the stock was trading at roughly ...

From Wall Street to Main Street, Elon Musk’s hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) for SpaceX tomorrow has hit a fever pitch with anyone and everyone. Headlines are buzzing about it in ...