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  • Premiered: Apr 2009
  • Episodes: 454
  • Followers: 1
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Season 2024
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A Serendipitous Star (and most distant star)
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Jan 07, 2024
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2024x2
Searching for Extraterrestrial Life (and the Drake Equation)
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Feb 28, 2024
Astronomer Dr Emma Chapman discusses SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), the Drake Equation, and other stuff about the hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth.
2024x3
Beware of Biosignatures
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Mar 29, 2024
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2024x4
Telescope with a Mercury Mirror
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May 09, 2024
Professor Meghan Gray discusses the 4m ​International ​Liquid Mirror ​Telescope in India - and does a demo.
2024x5
Where do particles come from?
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Jun 22, 2024
Professor Ed Copeland discusses the origin of particles - including talk about inflation, re-heating, the Big Bang, and oscillons.
2024x6
The Space Telescope with its Lens Cap On
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Jul 11, 2024
The XRISM X-Ray telescope is doing some good science - despite a "lens cap" being stuck in place.
2024x7
It's okay to FAIL exams
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Aug 05, 2024
Professor Philip Moriarty on why failure is not the end of the road...
2024x8
The Problem with Ranking Universities (League Tables)
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Aug 07, 2024
We discuss the problem with ranking universities using so-called "league tables".
2024x9
The Clearing System (last-minute university applications)
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Aug 12, 2024
We discuss the UK's "clearing" system, where students make last-minute applications for university... often after disappointing high school results.
2024x10
Crazy Numbers and White Holes
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Oct 03, 2024
Two viewer questions about huge numbers and white holes.
2024x11
Neural Networks and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Oct 18, 2024
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2024x12
What is a Photon?
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Oct 29, 2024
Explaining a photon at varying levels of difficulty. Another viewer question tackled by Ed and Tony.
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Doing Physics (and meeting YouTube fans)
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Nov 08, 2024
Ed and Tony talk about actually "doing" theoretical physics - and meeting fans of their videos.

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