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Quantum theory
Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?
7 minutes
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Space exploration
Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets
31 minutes
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Metaphysics
Bertrand Russell wanted to kill off causation. Can contemporary philosophy rescue it?
8 minutes
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Physics
The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab
17 minutes
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Biology
There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
7 minutes
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Astronomy
Raw solar-storm footage is the punk-rock antidote to sleek James Webb imagery
6 minutes
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Physics
An interstellar voyage explores the ‘paradox’ of twins separated by light years
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Mathematics
Imaginary numbers are real
These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
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Physics
Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface
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Metaphysics
To see the Universe more clearly, think in terms of processes, not objects
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Physics
This is not an animation: the spectacular sight of magnets meeting a metallic liquid
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Neuroscience
The turbulent brain
Energy flow between brain and environment drives the non-equilibrium that sustains life. Could turbulence help us thrive?
Morten L Kringelbach & Gustavo Deco
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Quantum theory
Mind-bending new quantum experiments are blurring past, present and future
10 minutes
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Biology
How insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate
8 minutes
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Biology
It’s a massive, winged Cretaceous beast – could a human ride one?
9 minutes
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Physics
Models capture the world-warping physics of what happens when stars meet black holes
2 minutes
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Physics
Water, salt and music form a mesmerising visualisation of sound waves
7 minutes
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Physics
Why simplicity works
Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple?
Johnjoe McFadden
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Biology
Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second
5 minutes
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Physics
In this 1975 lecture, the maglev train’s inventor deconstructs his ingenious design
19 minutes
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Chemistry
Liquid experiments show how beautiful things can happen when chemicals meet
6 minutes
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Physics
The Standard Model might be the most successful theory in science. But what is it?
16 minutes
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Astronomy
Meet the citizen scientist who changed how we see the Sun, and science itself
5 minutes
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Cosmology
Building ‘bigger and better’ has pushed cosmology forward. Can it take it any further?
7 minutes