New Scientist

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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New Scientist

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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New Scientist

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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New Scientist

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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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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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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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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