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The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life | Sean Carroll

What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history, these questions have been the province of religion and philosophy. What answers can science provide? In this talk, Sean … Continue reading

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The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern, and we finally know why | Phys.Org

by University of Chicago The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern, and we finally know why1 / 1A new study by the University of Chicago and University of Washington lays out for the first time why the Southern Hemisphere … Continue reading

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The tiny COVID mistake with deadly implications | Katie Randall | TEDxKC

Dr. Katie Randall was a graduate student in medical rhetoric when COVID-19 changed the world. Her talk describes how she discovered the origins of a fundamental mistake in public health officials’ understanding of the virus, and why we mishandled our … Continue reading

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How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer

Almost a century ago, Albert Einstein realized that the equations of general relativity could produce wormholes. But it would take a number of theoretical leaps and a “crazy” team of experimentalists to build one on Google’s quantum computer. Read the … Continue reading

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The US Government Sells Human Poop

This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard.  […]

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The Greatest Science Experiment That Never Happened | Answers With Joe

[…] The Superconducting Supercollider was set to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, by a long shot. In fact, it would still to this day be the biggest and most powerful. But history had other plans. This is … Continue reading

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How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

[…] How did seahorses — one of the ocean’s worst swimmers — spread around the globe? And where did they come from in the first place? Thanks to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) for the incredible syngnathid reconstructions used in this episode! … Continue reading

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A Molecule-Thick Coating Changes What a Surface Does, Thanks to Nanoscience

This episode was made in partnership with The Kavli Prize. The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience — transforming our understanding of the big, the small, and the complex. From removing glare in windows to … Continue reading

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How cold can it get?

Cryogenics is the science of cold. But how cold is cold? In this video, Fermilab scientist Dr. Don Lincoln tells us about some of the most amazing achievements in cryogenic science. And there is no truth to the rumor that … Continue reading

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Why are the northern lights always the SAME GREEN colour?

[…] Taylor Swift on her track “Snow on the Beach” claims she “searched aurora borealis green” – as an astrophysicist and Swiftie I’m here to let you know the aurora are green because of Oxygen in our atmosphere. To understand … Continue reading

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