17 Mar 2026 The Rest Is Science
Ever wanted to squish a puppy just because it’s impossibly cute? Or felt absolutely certain you’ve lived this exact moment before? Hannah and Michael explore the bizarre, everyday glitches of the human mind, unpacking why our brains occasionally seem to short-circuit.
They dive into the weird neurology of “cute aggression”, or urges like thinking of throwing your phone off a bridge, to the jarring time-bending sensation of déjà vu to reveal how our grey matter manages overwhelming feelings and sudden memory misfires.
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Video Editors: Adam Thornton + Oli Oakley
Video & Social: Bex Tyrrell
Animations: Sam Benson
Assistant Producer: Imee Marriott
Researcher: Sophia Constantinou
Producer: Simona Rata
Senior Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter
Head Of Digital: Samuel Oakley
Exec Producer: Neil Fearn
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00:00 The ‘sleep’ test
02:24 Cancer Research Uk
04:30 Using artificial deja vu to trigger glitches in the lab
07:15 Why your brain fact checks reality
09:40 The socially contagious tip of the tongue phenomenon
12:20 How jamais vu makes the familiar feel alien
15:00 The mysterious case of Bridey Murphy
18:15 Why the 90s seem brighter through nostalgia
21:00 What is blindsight
23:45 The homunculus problem
26:10 The call of the void
29:00 Why you want to squeeze a puppy
31:50 Why we fall in our sleep
34:25 Vestigial ghosts from human evolution
37:05 Amethyst and alcohol
39:40 Why spilling salt is considered bad luck
45:30 Summoning a ghost with the 500ms robotic delay
48:20 The coconut effect
57:20 The final electrical storm of gamma waves
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23 Mar 2026 CANBERRA
In a world-first, quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. Their experiment using helium atoms, represents a major advancement on similar experiments using photons, which are particles of light.
But unlike photons, helium atoms have mass and experience gravity.
Read the full article in Nature Communications:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
This development unlocks new ways to examine one of the biggest unanswered questions about the universe: how does the small-scale physics of quantum mechanics interact with gravity and general relativity at the universal scale?
By observing quantum entanglement in atoms for the first time, are we one small step closer to finding out whether the “Theory of Everything” is not just hot air?
Read more: https://physics.anu.edu.au/news_event…
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