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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 […]

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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