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New evidence suggests the iconic T. rex 🦖may not have ruled alone. Our latest video meets the newest member of the family: Nanotyrannus. Watch now: https://youtu.be/cN2WblQ055g

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What if time doesn’t actually “flow”?

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores what time really is and whether past, present and future could all exist at once.

Watch the full interview now and then tell us in the comments: Is time real, or just how we experience the universe? ⌛⌛⌛

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Is time an illusion? Could the past, present and future all exist at once? Is time travel really possible? Watch our latest interview with Jim Al-Khalili to get to grips with the true nature of time – https://youtu.be/IDNCWe3ufCE

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More than 99 per cent of all species that have ever lived are gone, which makes survival the anomaly that nobody has fully explained, until now. Our newest video explores extinctions, which you can watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6JE... but which of our thumbnail designs do you like the best?

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Our new compilation is now live. This one tells the story of extinction, from ancient humans to dinosaurs. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6JE...

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Our latest video explores a "cold blob" that has appeared off the coast of Greenland, and why this area of cooling is a warning sign of a climate catastrophe in the making. Watch now: https://youtu.be/4Auf0KdZ6S0

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 136

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Have you caught up on our latest interview with Ludovic Slimak?

New Scientist features editor, Alison George, travelled to Grotte Mandrin in France, where a Neanderthal discovery has challenged everything we know about our human relatives.

https://youtu.be/KXTZt8LG0Lk

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 369

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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.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 24

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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

📸 NASA/Bill Ingalls

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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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