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2024
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A Serendipitous Star (and most distant star)
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Searching for Extraterrestrial Life (and the Drake Equation)
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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.
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Beware of Biosignatures
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Telescope with a Mercury Mirror
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Professor Meghan Gray discusses the 4m ​International ​Liquid Mirror ​Telescope in India - and does a demo.
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Where do particles come from?
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Professor Ed Copeland discusses the origin of particles - including talk about inflation, re-heating, the Big Bang, and oscillons.
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The Space Telescope with its Lens Cap On
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The XRISM X-Ray telescope is doing some good science - despite a "lens cap" being stuck in place.
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It's okay to FAIL exams
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Professor Philip Moriarty on why failure is not the end of the road...
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The Problem with Ranking Universities (League Tables)
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We discuss the problem with ranking universities using so-called "league tables".
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The Clearing System (last-minute university applications)
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We discuss the UK's "clearing" system, where students make last-minute applications for university... often after disappointing high school results.
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Crazy Numbers and White Holes
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Two viewer questions about huge numbers and white holes.
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Neural Networks and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
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What is a Photon?
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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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Ed and Tony talk about actually "doing" theoretical physics - and meeting fans of their videos.

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