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Video Is This a New Kind of Physics? - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach

Physics

Is This a New Kind of Physics? - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach

Our current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, predicts equal numbers of electrons and muons, but the results

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Blog Kathryn in front of the CMS detector during training to become a tour guide

Physics

What is it like to work at CERN?

Ri volunteer and PhD student Kathryn Coldham invites us in for a personal tour of what it's like to work at the site of the

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Blog The first ever image of a black hole

Physics

On black holes and photographs

Following the release of the first ever image of a black hole, we scoured the internet for some of the best videos and articles

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Video Saiful Islam looking over a cannister which gas is pouring out of

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering

Supercharged: Fuelling the future – Fully charged (2016)

Saiful Islam is joined by former Christmas Lecturers to re-imagine some of the most famous experiments.

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Video A man and a woman standing behind a cow and a block of hay, inside the Ri theatre

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering

Supercharged: Fuelling the future – People power (2016)

Saiful Islam continues his exploration of one of the most important questions facing humankind – how to generate and use energy.

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Video Saiful Islam leaning in front of a lit candle, with a portrait of Michael Faraday in the background

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering

Supercharged: Fuelling the future – Let there be light! (2016)

Saiful investigates one of the most important challenges facing humankind – how to generate energy without destroying the planet

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Video Mark Miodownik standing in front of a backdrop of mountains

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics Technology and engineering

Size matters – Why mountains are so small (2010)

Mark Miodownik explains why the Earth’s gravity, mantle and atmosphere mean our mountains won’t grow any higher and how

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Video a white-gloved hand holding a silver dome of metal

Chemistry CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics

Size matters – Why chocolate melts and jet planes don't (2010)

As we zoom into the microscopically small realm beneath our fingertips to explore the tiny world we have created inside mobile

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Video A close-up of two ants

Biology and the human body CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics

Size matters – Elephants can't dance, but hamsters can skydive (2010)

From the very large to the very small, size is an important factor for both living and non-living matter.

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Video Neil Johnson talking to a crowd of children in the Ri theatre

CHRISTMAS LECTURES Physics

Arrows of time – Shaping the future (1999)

In his fifth Lecture, Neil Johnson asks: What quantum physics reveals about the future, and will we be able to travel in time?

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