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Curated short documentaries and original Aeon productions exploring big ideas

A photo of a printshop workbench featuring a newspaper layout, metal type blocks, and tools.

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History of technology

Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy

19 minutes

A man with a long beard wearing glasses holding a net against a backdrop of a grassy field and cloudy sky.

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Animals and humans

The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net

10 minutes

A woman on a sofa injecting her abdomen surrounded by stuffed toys on a shelf.

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Technology and the self

Why single Chinese women are freezing their eggs in California

24 minutes

Abstract painting with geometric shapes, lines and circles in various colours on a beige background.

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Beauty and aesthetics

Can you see music in this painting? How synaesthesia fuelled Kandinsky’s art

10 minutes

Painting of Roman soldiers in red carrying shields, forming a testudo (tortoise) formation during battle, viewed from the side.

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The ancient world

Petty squabbles and bloody battles – the life of an ancient Roman soldier

18 minutes

Young girls dressed in riot police helmets and gear standing outdoors in the rain.

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Childhood and adolescence

The police camp where tween girls enter a sisterhood of law and order

28 minutes

Illustration of a tattooed man from behind looking at a starry sky with trees silhouetted in the foreground.

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Astronomy

The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky

5 minutes

A wooden cabin on a grassy hill with a mountainous backdrop and cloudy sky in the distance.

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Knowledge

Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow

11 minutes

Abstract digital art of glowing, multicoloured clusters against a dark background, resembling molecules in space.

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Physics

Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleus gives rise to our own

10 minutes

Photo of an elderly man with a bald head and moustache wearing a suit and tie, smiling against a light-coloured, blurred background.

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War and peace

‘She is living on in many hearts’ – Otto Frank on the legacy of his daughter’s diary

12 minutes

A painting depicting a group of people in a room, with a man painting and a young girl in the centre, dressed in ornate clothes.

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Art

Why Diego Velázquez needed a lifetime to paint his enigmatic masterpiece

31 minutes

Photo of a person in a winter coat and beanie looking at a snow-covered town, with mountains in the background.

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Earth science and climate

There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare?

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