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Neutrino – Hunting the Ghost Particle

Science / 7 minutes of reading / June 11, 2023 / By HDclump

Neutrino – Hunting the Ghost Particle – This isn’t just a story; it’s an awe-inspiring epic of human perseverance and intellectual brilliance. It tells the incredible saga of how dedicated scientists have waged a tireless battle for nearly a hundred years to detect and decipher the intricacies of the neutrino, the most minuscule and peculiar particle of matter known to exist in the vast expanse of the universe. Within the celebrated halls of the globally recognized physics research center, Fermilab, there exists a devoted team of scientists. They are currently at work on a boldly conceived experiment aimed at tracking […]

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Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

Science / 3 minutes of reading / July 15, 2022 / By HDclump

Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe – As Nasa releases the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, this film tells the inside story of the telescope’s construction and the astronomers taking its first picture of distant stars and galaxies. Will it be the deepest image of our universe ever taken? The successor to Hubble, and 100 times more powerful, the James Webb is the most technically advanced telescope ever built. It will look further back in time than Hubble to an era around 200 million years after the Big Bang, when the first

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Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Using Sound episode 2

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

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Using Sound episode 2: Dr Helen Czerski examines the extraordinary messages sound waves carry and how they help us understand the world around us. Visiting a hidden location buried beneath the hills of Scotland, Helen experiences some of the most extreme acoustics in the world. Here she learns just how much information can be carried by sound. She discovers how sound has driven the evolution of truly incredible biological systems and complex relationships between creatures that exploit sound for hunting – and escaping from predators. Helen demonstrates how sound waves

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Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Making Sound episode 1

Science / 3 minutes of reading / May 30, 2021 / By HDclump

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Making Sound episode 1: Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the sounds we’re familiar with and the sounds that we normally can’t hear. She begins by exploring the simplest of ideas: what is a sound? At the Palace of Westminster, Helen teams up with scientists from the University of Leicester to carry out state-of-the-art measurements using lasers to reveal how the most famous bell in the world – Big Ben – vibrates to create pressure waves in the air at particular frequencies. This is how Big Ben produces

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Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 3

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

Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 3: Helen Czerski looks at the colours invisible to our eyes. To see the universe in a new light, she takes to the skies in a jet equipped with an infrared telescope. We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they appear. In this series, Dr Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works, and how it has written the story of our

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Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 2

Science / 3 minutes of reading / April 27, 2021 / By HDclump

Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 2: The raw, early Earth had plenty of colour, but that canvas was about to be painted with a vast new palette – and the source of those colours was life. We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they appear. In this series, Dr Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works, and how it has written the story of our planet

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Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 1

Science / 3 minutes of reading / April 26, 2021 / By HDclump

Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 1: Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works and how it has written the story of our planet. She seeks out the colours that turned the Earth multicoloured. We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they appear. In this series, Dr Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works, and how it has written the story of our planet –

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Gravity and Me – The Force That Shapes Our Lives

Science / 3 minutes of reading / March 27, 2021 / By HDclump

Gravity and Me – The Force That Shapes Our Lives: Physics professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. A fundamental force of nature, gravity shapes our entire universe, sculpting galaxies and warping space and time. But gravity’s strange powers, discovered by Albert Einstein, also affect our daily lives in the most unexpected ways. As Jim tells the story of gravity, it challenges his own understanding of the nature of reality. The science of gravity includes the greatest advances in physics, and Jim recreates groundbreaking experiments in gravity including when the Italian genius Galileo first worked out

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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 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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The Story of Electricity episode 1 – Spark

Science / 2 minutes of reading / December 7, 2020 / By HDclump

The Story of Electricity episode 1 – Spark: 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 modern industry and

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