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The eerie otherworldliness of slow undersea life sped up to a human pace
Corals, and the echinoderms and funguses that frequently inhabit them, are characterised by their brilliant colours and slow, creeping movements. Set to a pulsing original score by Maurizio Morganti, Meanwhile… speeds up this undersea ecosystem to something resembling a human pace. The result is uncanny, making these familiar lifeforms appear as if born of another planet.
Director: Sandro Bocci
Website: Julia Set Collection
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Biology
Brilliant dots of colour form exquisite patterns in this close-up of butterfly wings
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Genetics
Why it took a century to work out that humans interbred with Neanderthals
22 minutes
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Evolution
How – and how not – to think about the role randomness plays in evolution
60 minutes
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Physics
The rhythms of a star system inspire a pianist’s transfixing performance
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Art
Watch as Japan’s surplus trees are transformed into forest-tinted crayons
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Biology
A spectacular, close-up look at the starfish with a ‘hands-on’ approach to parenting
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Technology and the self
A filmmaker finds a tactile beauty in the creation of her prosthetic leg
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Knowledge
An Indigenous myth and a geological survey elicit two ways of knowing one place
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Biology
Beetles take flight at 6,000 frames per second in this perspective-shifting short
9 minutes