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David Attenborough on birds of paradise – Part 2

by David Attenborough
David Attenborough on birds of paradise – Part 2
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Interviews | All ages | 15 years ago | 13028 views
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British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough talks to Nature about his obsession with birds of paradise.

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David Attenborough: Scientist or Broadcaster? – Part 3

by David Attenborough
David Attenborough: Scientist or Broadcaster? – Part 3
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Interviews | All ages | 15 years ago | 3117 views
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Scientist or Broadcaster?

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James Lovelock – A Final Warning

by James Lovelock
James Lovelock – A Final Warning
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Interviews | All ages | 15 years ago | 2134 views
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James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia theory; the idea that all parts of our planet form a complex interacting system, like a single organism. His new book depicts Gaia in trouble. In this interview Lovelock sounds a final warning for pl....

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The Mother Fish

by John Long
The Mother Fish
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Lectures | All ages | 15 years ago | 3320 views
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Evidence of reproduction by internal fertilization has been discovered in a large group of ancient jawed fish. Embryos discovered within fossils of these animals confirm that live birth in prehistoric times was much more widespread than previously th....

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Sticky tape X-rays

by Carlos Camara
Sticky tape X-rays
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1798 views
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Peeling sticky tape emits energy that extends into the X-ray regime, reports a study in Nature. The research provides evidence for a phenomenon that was first observed more than 50 years ago.nnIt is well known that unwinding sticky tape produces spar....

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Antikythera Mechanism Part 1

by Alexander Jones
Antikythera Mechanism Part 1
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2197 views
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New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering....

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Antikythera Mechanism Part 2

by Alexander Jones
Antikythera Mechanism Part 2
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Lectures | All ages | 15 years ago | 2302 views
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New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering....

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Platypus Genome

by Jenny Graves
Platypus Genome
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2028 views
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The duck-billed platypus is a truly unique animal; a monotreme with almost no close relatives alive on earth. Scientists just had to take a look at that genome and here they discuss their findings.

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Smoking and lung cancer genes

by David Hunter
Smoking and lung cancer genes
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1969 views
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Some of the strongest evidence that lung cancer risk variants are common in the general population appears in Nature and Nature Genetics, although the three papers differ on whether the association is direct or mediated through nicotine dependence. W....

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Voyages through the heliosphere

by Alan Cummings
Voyages through the heliosphere
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1592 views
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A series of papers in Nature analyse recent observations from the outer limits of the Solar System, and help build up a picture of how the Sun interacts with the rest of the Galaxy.

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Ancient tsunamis

by Brian McAdoo
Ancient tsunamis
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1938 views
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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was not the first of its kind, according to research in Nature. Two groups of scientists have found sedimentary evidence for possible predecessors to the 2004 event in...

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Mega-impact on Mars

by Maria Zuber
Mega-impact on Mars
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1871 views
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Scientists have identified what could be the largest impact structure in the Solar System, created on Mars at about the same time as the Moon-forming impact on Earth.

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Whale Evolution

by Hans Thewissen
Whale Evolution
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 5161 views
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The marine mammals known as cetaceans originated about 50 million years ago in south Asia, but their terrestrial ancestor is something of a mystery. Hans Thewissen and colleagues now provide the missing Eocene piece of the jigsaw.

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Super-Resolution Microscopy

by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Super-Resolution Microscopy
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2341 views
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Celebrate methods development with Nature Methods' Method of the Year 2008. See how Super-Resolution Microscopy is set to revolutionize our understanding of cellular biology and hear from the inventors.

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Dark Matter, Dark Energy

by George Smoot
Dark Matter, Dark Energy
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3373 views
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Smoot's Nobel Prize was awarded for his analysis of that whisper from the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation. Today he hopes CERN's data will again transform our understanding of the universe. Young scientists Bilge Demirkoz and Benj....

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The Quantum Lattice

by William Phillips
The Quantum Lattice
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1769 views
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Awarded a Nobel Prize for using lasers to control and cool atoms, producing the Bose-Einstein condensation, Bill Phillips is eager to hear about new theories from young scientists like Hannah Venzl. An exciting dialogue develops between them on a boa....

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Fibre and Sunlight

by John Hall
Fibre and Sunlight
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1896 views
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Fine tuning the frequencies of light gave John Hall a Nobel Prize, and helped transform the fields of precision measurement and information transmission. Iris Choi and Andrei Ghicov are young scientists excited by the ways physics can change our worl....

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Abolishing Time?

by David Gross
Abolishing Time?
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2026 views
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David Gross's Nobel Prize was for work on the 'strong' force which acts between quarks inside the atom. Now he works on string theory, hoping to understand how all the forces of nature could be united. He believes the next steps may involve throwing ....

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Breaking down Altzheimer’s

by Aaron Ciechanover
Breaking down Altzheimer’s
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2383 views
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Alzheimer's disease is caused by abnormal clumps or aggregations of proteins in the brain. Simon P”psel is about to embark on PhD work on a protein that might help us to treat this devastating disease, and Nobel Prize winning biochemist Aaron Ciech....

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Nanotechnology: Use and misuse

by Harry Kroto
Nanotechnology: Use and misuse
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3779 views
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Sir Harry Kroto won the Nobel Prize for discovering the soccer-ball-shaped fullerenes, strangely-structured carbon molecules also known as buckyballs. These molecules led to the development of carbon nanotubes and the burgeoning field of nanoscience.....

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Smart drugs and sneaky microbes

by Peter Agre
Smart drugs and sneaky microbes
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 7004 views
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Young scientists like Maartje Bastings are set to revolutionise the way we deliver drugs. Her work will aid the development of 'smart drugs' which target specific proteins in the membranes of particular cells, proteins like the aquaporins discovered ....

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Seeing green

by Roger Tsien
Seeing green
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2333 views
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The 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Roger Tsien and colleagues for work on the green fluorescent protein (GFP). This protein, originally found in jellyfish, enables scientists to track the activity of individual proteins within living ce....

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Catalysts and collaborations

by Richard Schrock
Catalysts and collaborations
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2216 views
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Catalysts facilitate almost every reaction in the human body. They also enable us to make all kinds of molecules in the lab, and few people have contributed more to this field than Richard Schrock. Can he help Norweigan student Christer pstad to cata....

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Climate Change: Madagascar

by Anjali Nayar
Climate Change: Madagascar
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Lectures | 11-14 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3873 views
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Anjali Nayar visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that's aiming to protect one of the country's few remaining forests. It's hoped that projects like this will help curb global warming. But first, these projects must overcome the poverty and pol....

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A flash from the early Universe

by Nial Tanvir
A flash from the early Universe
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2162 views
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Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million yea....

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Climate change: Bhutan

by Anjali Nayar
Climate change: Bhutan
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1950 views
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Nature reporter Anjali Nayar hiked for 21 days in Northern Bhutan to find out how this tiny Himalayan nation is dealing with rapidly melting glaciers.

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Climate change: The two-degree target

by Olive Hefferman
Climate change: The two-degree target
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2894 views
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In December 2009, policy makers meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to thrash out a new global deal on climate change. The aim is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. We sent three young climate researchers along ....

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Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

by Venki Ramakrishnan
Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
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Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2105 views
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Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'studies of the structure and function of the ribosome', the cell's protein-making factory. In this interview, he talks about his surprise at winning the prize, and what it meant to....

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David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1

by David Attenborough
David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1
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Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2460 views
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British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.

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Prehistoric Pin-up

by Maria Malina
Prehistoric Pin-up
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2715 views
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A carved female figurine dating to at least 35,000 years ago has been recovered from caves in the Hohle Fels region of Germany. The figure represents the oldest figurative art yet discovered. In this film the authors describe the importance of their ....

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