Episode Details

In this episode:

00:45 The table-tennis robot that can mix it with the pros

Research Article: Dürr et al.

News and Views: Robot can beat elite players at table tennis

Video: This robot can beat you at table tennis

14:13 Research Highlights

Nature: Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust

Nature: Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll

16:21 Why physicists can’t agree on the strength of Big G

Nature: How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength

Research Article: Schlamminger et al.

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