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The Universe Has Been Expanding Since the Big Bang. Just Not How We Thought.
Season 11
Episode 32
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We’ve Been Looking for Aliens for 70 Years. We've Been Doing It Wrong All Along
Season 11
Episode 29
We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridany 65 years ago. He saw nothing that couldn’t be explained by natural causes. Nor have the much more extensive SETI surveys conducted since. So, maybe there are no alien signals to see. Or maybe we need to update how we search for them.
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What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
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Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?
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Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
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There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
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How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
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Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?