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In our latest video, we meet palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak inside Grotte Mandrin, one of the most significient Neanderthal caves in Europe. Watch now.
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Millions of people got a rare glimpse of a total solar eclipse on 12 August, as the moon aligned perfectly with Earth and the sun to cast a shadow that passed over Siberia, the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. It was the first total solar eclipse visible from Earth since early 2024.
You can watch the eclipse as it happened via our livestream youtube.com/live/BSZtmyliXws
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A total solar eclipse just happened across parts of Europe. Did you witness it? If you missed it, we have the full ESA stream from Spain which you can watch now - youtube.com/live/BSZtmyliXws?feature=share
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Today we're releasing an interview with ‪@DrBecky‬ to chat about the behemoths that sit at the centre of galaxies, supermassive black holes. She told us about what black holes are, how the supermassive ones get so big and her amazing career.
Make sure you've got notifications turned on so you're the first to see it.
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In our latest marathon, we take a look at the building blocks of our universe and uncover the reasons why we still don't truly understand what it's made of.
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Thanks to the Jurassic Discovery centre in Seaton, UK, we got to explore the last days of the dinosaurs. But in our latest explainer, we reveal that the dinosaur extinction wasn't as straightforward as it seems. Watch now - https://youtu.be/WbiIrV6Bq64
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Recently, we had the pleasure of interviewing Ivette Fuentes, a professor of quantum mechanics at the University of Southampton in the UK. Fuentes has big ideas around the interplay of quantum mechanics and general relativity and is designing experiments to see just how they interact https://youtu.be/kLDvk2urghs
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Our latest video looks at the most successful human species thus far. You can watch here - https://youtu.be/HIhCKIrHX_k but before you do, which species do you think it might be?
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Here are some of the amazing animations created by our motion graphics artist ‪@daviduribepava4631‬ for our latest film: https://youtu.be/HIhCKIrHX_k. let us know whet you think, and if there's anything you'd like use to illustrate in this style.
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It's often thought that because of our big brains and intelligence, Homo sapiens are the most successful species to have ever walked Earth. But, as palaeoanthropologist Ella Al‑Shamahi explores in our next video, it turns out this narrative isn't entirely true.
Tune in at 6pm BST / 1pm EDT.
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