New Scientist

Our recent explainer video looked at Homo naledi and their possible burial practices - https://youtu.be/CQj6QofUdFc. Now, research suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in the Rising Star cave in South Africa were female, which strengthens the case that they were placed there deliberately.

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New Scientist

"We can easily ask questions that are very fundamental, and we don’t know the answer to these questions. Not because of some difficult technical thing, but because the questions are so deep."

If you haven't seen it, check out our latest interview with physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_l_...

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New Scientist

In our latest video, we sit down with physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll to discuss all things quantum mechanics, from the double-slit experiment and the multiverse to the search for quantum gravity and the elusive collapse of the wave function.

Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_l_...

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New Scientist

We haven’t yet found the chink in antimatter’s armour that might explain what went on at the beginning of the universe, but it is one of the most important, fundamental questions in physics.

Everything around us exists because of an almost impossibly small imbalance. One extra particle per billion.

This tiny advantage that matter had over antimatter determined the fate of the universe. Without that, we would have no galaxies, no planets, no chemistry, no life. None of your friends or family, or you, would ever exist. There would just be a universe filled with radiation and nothing else.

And we still have no idea what caused it, but we’re getting close – closer than we ever have before.

Watch our latest video to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYiY...

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New Scientist

In our latest video, we went to the Antimatter Factory at CERN, where they make one of the most expensive materials on Earth. Costing more than $60 trillion per gram, antimatter isn’t cheap. However, at current production rates, making just 1 gram would take a billion years. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYiY...

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New Scientist

We met with scientists at CERN who are trying to crack one of the most important mysteries in particle physics: if matter and antimatter were created by the big bang in equal proportion, where is all of that antimatter today?

Tune in tomorrow to find out more.

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New Scientist

"We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals." We sat down with biological anthropologist Alice Roberts to talk about the wonderful benefits bestowed on us by animals from our evolutionary past and the myth of human exceptionalism. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdzyt...

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New Scientist

Why do humans have big brains and small teeth, and walk on two legs? We've often thought we were an exception to the rules of the animal kingdom but, as Alice Roberts reveals in our latest interview, this simply isn't the case. Tune in 6pm GMT / 1pm EST.

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New Scientist

Antarctica is melting and one of its largest glaciers is at risk. In our latest video, which you can watch now: https://youtu.be/GL3RZsT-Hwg we speak to the scientists involved in an international effort to better understand Thwaites glacier, and learn why its potential collapse is much worrying than we previously thought.

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New Scientist

If you enjoyed out latest video, check out our reporter Karmela Padavic-Callaghan’s recent column on how Q-Day could affect you – whether you have bought bitcoin or not. www.newscientist.com/article/2528342-q-day-could-d…

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