What’s in a names? Jess and Rob are exploring why major cities are called what they’re called and what their names literally mean.
🇩🇪 Why does BERLIN mean ‘swamp’?
🇯🇵 Why are KYOTO and TOKYO anagrams?
🇿🇦 Who is the Johannes of Johannesburg?
These questions answered, and many more, in a globe-trotting episode of Words Unravelled.
14 Jan 2026
Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break. In this video, we journey – with up-to-the-minute discoveries and insights – through every kind of black hole, from intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes to an assortment of theoretical space oddities, including wormholes, fuzzballs and gravastars.
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Learn more ➤ https://www.newscientist.com/article/…
About New Scientist:
New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.
00:00 Introduction
02:41 The Basics
06:21 The Monsters
09:17 The Missing Link
11:16 The Primordials
13:24 The Problem
15:34 The Fuzzballs
17:01 Gravastars
18:32 Wormholes
20:27 Conclusion
The ocean is wide and mysterious, and for hundreds of years, sailors, explorers, and merchants have disappeared beneath the waves or met mysterious ends on their ships. These tales have been passed down and become part of seafaring folklore and superstition. But they all have wild back stories that boggle the mind to this day.
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