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Ancient Yellowstone episode 2 – Frozen Archeology

Nature, Science / 3 minutes of reading / March 4, 2021 / By HDclump

Ancient Yellowstone episode 2 – Frozen Archeology: There are places in Greater Yellowstone where the snow never melts, or at least, it never used to. Climate change is causing Yellowstone’s ice patches to recede, so many archaeological treasures—if not rescued—will disintegrate within days. Ancient Yellowstone episode 2 – Frozen Archeology Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, […]

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Ancient Yellowstone episode 1 – Alien Life

Science / 3 minutes of reading / March 1, 2021 / By HDclump

Ancient Yellowstone episode 1 – Alien Life: Yellowstone National Park is famous for its unparalleled beauty but there’s much, much more happening in this breathtaking spot. Microbes found in Yellowstone National Park’s thermal pools have structures so ancient that scientists now believe that they could be close to the root in the universal tree of life. These microbes are becoming the models for understanding the biology necessary for life at high temperatures. Ancient Yellowstone episode 1 – Alien Life Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the

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Looking for Life on Mars

Science / 3 minutes of reading / February 28, 2021 / By HDclump

Looking for Life on Mars: Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars. The spacecraft will blaze into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and attempt to lower the Perseverance Rover in the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life. Perseverance will comb the area for signs of life and collect samples for possible return to Earth. Traveling onboard is a four-pound helicopter that will conduct a series of test flights—the first on

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Absolute Zero episode 2 – The Race for Absolute Zero

Science / 2 minutes of reading / January 21, 2021 / By HDclump

Absolute Zero episode 2 – The Race for Absolute Zero: Documentary charting rival attempts to reach absolute zero, the ultimate limit of cold, by scientists in London and Leiden. A second race unfolded 100 years later, towards the end of the 20th century, as scientists attempted to produce a Bose Einstein Condensate, a new state of matter predicted by Einstein. With the winner of each scientific race going on to win the Nobel Prize for their work, ultra-cold research has proved to be one of the most competitive fields of modern science. Absolute Zero episode 2 –

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The Story of Science episode 6 – Who Are We?

Science / 3 minutes of reading / January 8, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 6 – Who Are We? -We now know that the brain – the organ that more than any other makes us human – is one of the wonders of the universe, and yet until the 17th century it was barely studied. The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and in the process have revealed some surprising and uncomfortable truths about what really shapes our thoughts, feelings and desires. And the search to understand how our brains work has

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The Story of Science episode 5 – What Is the Secret of Life?

Science / 3 minutes of reading / January 7, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 5 – What Is the Secret of Life? – The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known – the human body. It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the ‘life force’ of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough

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The Story of Science episode 4 – Can We Have Unlimited Power?

Science / 3 minutes of reading / January 6, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 4 – Can We Have Unlimited Power? – We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed – from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was led by practical men who wanted to make money. Their inventions and ideas created fortunes and changed the course of history, but it took centuries for science to catch up, to explain what power is, rather than simply what it does. This

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The Story of Science episode 3 – How Did We Get Here?

Science / 3 minutes of reading / January 3, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 3 – How Did We Get Here?: The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin. Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring

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The Story of Science episode 2 – What is the World Made Of?

Science / 3 minutes of reading / January 2, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 2 – What is the World Made Of? – In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world’s first synthetic dye – mauve – and onto the invention of the transistor. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer

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The Story of Science episode 1 – What Is Out There?

Science / 4 minutes of reading / January 1, 2021 / By HDclump

The Story of Science episode 1 – What Is Out There?: Michael Mosley explores how history has shaped science. He looks at how we came to understand that our planet was not at the center of everything in the cosmos. Michael Mosley embarks on an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society’s historical path. He begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history, how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos but just one

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The Story of Electricity episode 3 – Revelations and Revolutions

Science / 2 minutes of reading / December 9, 2020 / By HDclump

The Story of Electricity episode 3 – Revelations and Revolutions: Jim Al-Khalili concludes by looking at how, if we could understand the secret of electrical superconductivity, we could once again transform the world. Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments – a

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The Story of Electricity episode 2 – The Age of Invention

Science / 2 minutes of reading / December 8, 2020 / By HDclump

The Story of Electricity episode 2 – The Age of Invention: Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments – a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create

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