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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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The Gene – An Intimate History episode 2

Science / 3 minutes of reading / March 18, 2021 / By HDclump

The Gene – An Intimate History episode 2: Part Two begins with the story of the signature scientific achievement of our time: the mapping of the human genome. As scientists learn to read the genetic code, they grapple with the dangers inherent in increasingly sophisticated and easily available methods of intervening in the very essence of what makes us human, our DNA. “The Gene: An Intimate History” brings vividly to life the story of today’s revolution in medical science through present-day tales of patients and doctors at the forefront of the search for genetic treatments, interwoven with a

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The Gene – An Intimate History episode 1

Science / 3 minutes of reading / March 17, 2021 / By HDclump

The Gene – An Intimate History episode 1: brings vividly to life the story of today’s revolution in medical science through present-day tales of patients and doctors at the forefront of the search for genetic treatments, interwoven with a compelling history of the discoveries that made this possible and the ethical challenges raised by the ability to edit DNA with precision. Part One interweaves the present-day story of the Rosens, a young family on an odyssey to find a cure for their four-year old daughter’s rare genetic disease, with stories of the exciting discoveries of the early pioneers

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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 Magic of Mushrooms

Nature / 2 minutes of reading / January 5, 2021 / By HDclump

The Magic of Mushrooms: Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists – yet all life on earth depends on it. In a specially built mushroom lab, with the help of mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey and some state-of-the-art technology, Richard brings to life the secret world of mushrooms as never seen before and reveals the spectacular abilities of fungi to break down waste and sustain

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