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Video The Volcanoes of our Solar System - with Natalie Starkey
Physics

The Volcanoes of our Solar System - with Natalie Starkey

Earth isn't the only planet to harbour volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with

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Video A Beginner's Guide to Black Holes - with Amélie Saintonge
Physics

A Beginner's Guide to Black Holes - with Amélie Saintonge

What is a black hole and how does it come into being? Amélie Saintonge takes us on a lightspeed tour of these fascinating

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Video What Does it Take to Make a Universe? - with Harry Cliff
Physics

What Does it Take to Make a Universe? - with Harry Cliff

What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will

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Video Is Dark Matter Real? - with Sabine Hossenfelder
Physics

Is Dark Matter Real? - with Sabine Hossenfelder

What is the evidence for and against dark matter? Sabine argues for the superfluidity of dark matter that allows for a suitable

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Video Rutherford, Radioactivity and the Future of Physics - with the Cosmic Shambles Network
Physics

Rutherford, Radioactivity and the Future of Physics - with the Cosmic Shambles Network

Often dubbed the 'Father of the Nuclear Age’, Ernest Rutherford’s pioneering, and Nobel Award winning, discoveries in nuclear

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Video How Easy is It to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole? - with Dr Becky
Physics

How Easy is It to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole? - with Dr Becky

What is it that makes supermassive black holes grow so big?

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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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