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The Standard Model – The Universe's Ingredient List
Everything you have ever touched, seen or been made of comes down to a surprisingly short list of fundamental particles and the forces between them. …
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Memory – How the Brain Stores a Life
Memory feels like a recording — press play and there's the past. But the science tells a stranger story: remembering is an act of reconstruction, ass…
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Dark Energy – Why the Universe Is Flying Apart
For most of the twentieth century, astronomers assumed the universe's expansion had to be slowing down, tugged on by the gravity of everything inside…
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The Heart – The Pump That Never Rests
Your heart beats around one hundred thousand times a day, every day, for your entire life, pushing blood through a network of vessels that, laid end …
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Sleep — Why We Spend a Third of Our Lives Unconscious
Every night you switch off consciousness, lie down, and become vulnerable for hours. Evolution doesn't tolerate a waste of a third of your life — so …
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The Ice Ages — When the World Froze Over
Just twenty thousand years ago, ice kilometres thick buried much of the northern world, and the sea was so much lower you could walk between continen…
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Dark Matter — The Universe's Missing Mass
Everything you've ever seen — every star, planet, person and speck of dust — adds up to only about a sixth of the matter in the universe. The rest is…
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Evolution by Natural Selection — The Best Idea Anyone Ever Had
Natural selection is one of the simplest ideas in all of science and one of the most misunderstood. We build it up from three plain facts about livin…
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Exoplanets — Finding Worlds Around Other Stars
A generation ago we knew of exactly one planetary system: our own. Today we've confirmed more than five thousand planets around other stars, and the …
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Weather vs Climate – Why the Difference Matters
“It's freezing today — so much for global warming.” It's a common jab, and it rests on confusing two different things: weather and climate. We untang…
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