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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.
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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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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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"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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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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