How tall can a tree grow? – Valentin Hammoudi
What makes a tree grow tall? And do trees ever stop growing? Explore how photosynthesis and gravity can affect and limit the height of trees.
The secret language of trees – Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorrhizae.
What if there were 1 trillion more trees? – Jean-François Bastin
How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.
The carbon cycle is key to understanding climate change | The Economist
Until a few hundred years ago there was a perfect balance of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Human activity has disrupted that balance. What can be done to restore it?
Public Debt: how much is too much? | The Economist
The covid-19 pandemic is set to increase public debt to levels last seen after the second world war. But is rising public debt a cause for concern? New economic thinking suggests perhaps not, at least for now.
Snippet: For aging male chimps, friendships are a calming force
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Three ways the universe could end – Venus Keus
Our universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip.
The Multiverse with Joe Rogan
After Neil’s interview on The Joe Rogan Experience (@PowerfulJRE), the microphones kept recording. Joe gets the chance to ask Neil deGrasse Tyson any question that’s been brewing in his brain about our place in the cosmos. This leads our pair on an epic journey of cosmic curiosity that explores the concept of the multiverse and […]
Why The Multiverse Might Be a Reality | Unveiled
We live in a universe, right? It’s massive. It’s expanding. But there’s only one UNIverse… Right? Well, maybe not. The multiverse theory has long captured the imaginations of scientists and philosophers, but could it actually be true? Could there really be an infinite number of existences? And are we only seeing one of them? In […]
Covid-19: Bill Gates predicts the end of the pandemic | The Economist
Bill Gates had long warned of the risk that a new virus would go global. Now he explains to Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, how—and when—the covid-19 pandemic is likely to end.
Quantum Mechanics – Part 1: Crash Course Physics #43
What is light? That is something that has plagued scientists for centuries. It behaves light a wave… and a particle… what? Is it both? In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini introduces to the idea of Quantum Mechanics and how it helps us understand light. Also, there’s this thing called the ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE!
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Flora & Fauna
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, science communicator and agnostic.
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
Is our universe a definitive single reality or is it merely one within an infinitely branching multiverse? Be sure to check out Physics Girl’s Dianna Cowern for more awesome science https://www.youtube.com/c/physicsgirl
How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
The Nobel prize in physics this year went to black holes. Generally speaking. Specifically, it was shared by the astronomers who revealed to us the Milky Way’s central black hole and by Roger Penrose, who proved that in general relativity, every black hole contains a place of infinite gravity – a singularity. But the true […]
