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Mapping the ‘superhighways’ travelled by the first Australians
Superhighways’ used by a population of up to 6.5 million Indigenous Australians to navigate the continent tens of thousands of years ago have been revealed by new research using sophisticated modelling of past people and landscapes. The new insights into … Continue reading
Marie Tharp: Uncovering the Secrets of the Ocean Floor – with Helen Czerski
Continental drift is common knowledge now, but when the idea was first proposed it was revolutionary. Helen Czerski tells the story of how the maps of one of history’s finest cartographers shifted our view of the planet. Subscribe for new … Continue reading
The Speed of Light is Infinite… Kind Of.
[…] Is the speed of light finite? Or is it infinite? That depends on what geometry you’re using and how you define speed. It’s infinite in hyperbolic geometry, which is the proper geometry for spacetime. 00:00 Cold Open 00:49 Speed … Continue reading
Algae Might One Day Rule the World
[…] Algae is one of the oldest and most abundant forms of life on planet Earth, so it only makes sense that it offers a ton of solutions to unsustainable modern problems. Here are five ways in which algae continues … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
Ben Garrod is an obsessive bone collector and wild animal behaviourist. He was destined for a career in medicine but a chance encounter with primatologist Jane Goodall reignited his life long passion for conservation and led to him managing and … Continue reading
Anna Machin on Love – TWIS Interviews
Why do we love??? Find out with TWIS! Watch live here or check out our feed over at http://twis.org/live – we have a chatroom! Join us! Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience Listen to the full episode in audio or check … Continue reading
What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
[…] If you’ve studied any physics you know that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But why? It’s as though this thing – electric charge – is as fundamental a property of an object as its mass. It just … Continue reading
Who lives on our bodies? A microscopic safari | DW Documentary
Among the unknown worlds in the universe, we can count our very own bodies. Like planet earth, each of us is made up of fascinating landscapes that are home to all kinds of wildlife. The film takes the viewer on … Continue reading
Why Time Actually Flows Both Ways
[…] *Creator* Jade Tan-Holmes *Animations* Tom Groenestyn *Sound Design and Music* Junior Arruda https://www.youtube.com/c/iamaduo https://www.epidemicsound.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1D30m… *cool physics/math posters* displate.com *Sources and Further Reading* The Direction of Time by Hans Reichenbach https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0511090… https://williamhoover.info/Scans1980s… https://inspirehep.net/literature/176… Click to access 0912.1756.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-… https://www.wolframscience.com/refere… … Continue reading
The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein
Celia Escamilla-Rivera discusses how she is using the tools of precision cosmology to hunt for a theory of gravity—in particular, teleparallel gravity—that incorporates dark energy more naturally than general relativity does. Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mex…
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