Earth episode 4 – Atmosphere – When Earth first coalesced from clouds of dust and gas approximately 4.6 billion years ago, it found itself akin to countless other lifeless celestial bodies scattered throughout the vast universe. Devoid of any atmosphere, our young planet appeared as an inhospitable, solitary rock adrift in the vast expanse of the cosmic void. However, this […]
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Botany – A Blooming History episode 3 – Hidden World: For 10,000 years or more, humans created new plant varieties for food by trial and error and a touch of serendipity. Then 150 years ago, a new era began. Pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a new branch
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Botany – A Blooming History episode 2 – Photosynthesis: The air we breathe, and all the food we eat, is created from water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and a few minerals. That’s it, nothing else. It sounds simple, but this process is one of the most fascinating and complicated in all of science. Without it there could be no life on
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