Our slightly belated video about the Higgs Boson. A (very much) extended version of these interviews has been posted at our nottinghamscience channel - www.youtube.com This video features Ed Copeland, Roger Bowley and Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran
Just a bit of fun for Christmas - we "physics review" one of this year's hot Christmas gifts. No product endorsement (in fact it looks a bit "naff" we reckon)... Just talking a bit of festive physics. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran
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We discuss Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov's winning of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics from work on graphene. More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
Sir Isaac Newton is one of history's greatest scientists. But what was he like as a man? More from Sixty Symbols at www.sixtysymbols.com
Schrödinger's cat is an icon of modern physics - but what is it exactly? More physics and astronomy videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
We discuss wormholes and the new computer game called Portal 2. More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
The butterfly effect is associated with the unpredictable world of chaos... Two of our physicists have a chat about it. They are Laurence Eaves and Mark Fromhold. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com
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Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com
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Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com
More answers to questions from Sixty Symbols viewers, covering the LHC, exploding stars and galaxies made of anti-matter. Part One is at www.youtube.com
Coupled Oscillators, or pendulums, are demonstrated by Professor Roger Bowley as part of little Easter series. He's using creme eggs, of course. More eggsperiemnts at www.sixtysymbols.com
A mysterious object (with an equally mysterious name) may have been revealed by a strange "light echo" in deepest space. More videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
Yes, it has a funny name. But its name is not the only odd thing about Uranus. All our physics and astronomy videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap. PS MESSAGE FROM PROF MORIARTY: "I misspoke for the last sentence of the video. What I meant to say is that the photons don't have enough energy to excite electrons across the energy gap and therefore light is transmitted. What I said was precisely the opposite, contradicting everything else in the video. Apologies for any confusion caused." More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
Find out why this toy is a "wonderful piece of physics". More at www.sixtysymbols.com
We're in Australia discussing the view of the night sky from down south. Talking with amateur astronomer Paul Haese, based in South Australia, and former Sixty Symbols regular Dr Amanda Bauer, who is now working in Sydney. Extra interview footage at www.youtube.com Our thanks to the following astrophotographers who allowed us to use their images: Paul Haese paulhaese.net Phil Hart www.philhart.com Fred Espenak www.mreclipse.com We discuss the southern cross (crux) and Magellanic Clouds, among other features. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran
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Continuing a week of egg-themed physics (for Easter 2011), Professor Egg Copeland discusses a theory which relates to the cosmological constant. More egg physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
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It's a tricky concept linked to chaos, but the Feigenbaum Constant is a special number which appears everywhere in nature. More symbols at www.sixtysymbols.com
Electrons are the most spherical objects in the universe, according to recent reports. Professor Ed Copeland discusses what this all means. Extra footage from this interview can be found on our nottinghamscience channel at www.youtube.com Sixty Symbols videos at www.sixtysymbols.com And we're on Twiiter at twitter.com and Facebook at www.facebook.com
We meet Australian astronomy photographer Paul Haese at Clayton Bay, near Adelaide. See Paul's work at paulhaese.net He was recently named runner-up in the solar system category of Astronomy Photographer of the Year for an image he captured of Saturn. You can also see the winner at www.nmm.ac.uk Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com
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The Sun is designated as a "G2V" star. What does that mean? More physics and astronomy at www.sixtysymbols.com
News about antihydrogen being "trapped" at CERN has prompted this video into the topic. More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
Summer solstice, equinox, Stonehenge and strange movements of the sun. Sixty Symbols tracks the sun's passage through the sky. More physics and astronomy at www.sixtysymbols.com Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com And Facebook at www.facebook.com
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Image credits below... For Halloween we look at a couple of "witch" objects in space. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com Images used with permission and our thanks Philip Perkins www.astrocruise.com Rogelio Bernal Andreo blog.deepskycolors.com Joaquin Ferreiros www.telefonica.net Radek Kyml astrofoto.kyml.cz Michael Siniscalchi helixgate.net Michael Fulbright msfastro.net Bob and Janice Fera www.feraphotography.com
We take a look at Saturn and news that it has another ring. More astronomy and planets at www.sixtysymbols.com
This is one of the most important numbers in physics and is "unimaginably small" - or does it just seems small? More symbols explained at www.sixtysymbols.com
What is the difference between big "G" and little "g"... And what is gravitational lensing? More physics and astronomy at www.sixtysymbols.com
The strange world of electromagnetic waves! More videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
The proton may be smaller than we thought. Our experts explain why this could be a really big deal for physics. More videos at www.sixtysymbols.com Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com Or on Facebook at www.facebook.com
We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called Hammer and Spark. Video also features Sixty Symbols regular (and Irishman) Professor Phil Moriarty. Visit our website at www.sixtysymbols.com We're on Facebook at www.facebook.com And Twitter at twitter.com Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran
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It's a concept which intrigues mathematicians, but scientists aren't so keen on it. More at www.sixtysymbols.com
Crushing the Earth into a Black Hole and looking into the core of the Milky Way. More at www.sixtysymbols.com
It's more of a maths symbol, but crucial to physics too... So by popular demand, we've had a look at pi (but in Professor Eaves' unique way). More at www.sixtysymbols.com
Broken vases, cups of tea and a scientist's tombstone - welcome to the world of entropy. More phsyics at www.sixtysymbols.com
Professor Bowley is back in the lab explaining the Hall Effect, which involves electric current and magnetic fields. More physics videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
Whether you call it "i" or "j", this is one symbol which is hard to fathom. More at www.sixtysymbols.com
The Kelvin temperature scale is linked to the concept of absolute zero. More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
Billions of these mysterious particles are blasted down from the sun and pass through our bodies undetected. More videos at www.sixtysymbols.com
Some seriously big numbers. We start with a trillion and then move to Avogadros Number - but they are small compared with what comes next. More at www.sixtysymbols.com
Cadbury Creme Eggs and real eggs are MRI scanned for this special Easter video. Sir Peter Mansfield developed a lot of MRI technology at The University of Nottingham, where Sixty Symbols is filmed. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work. Professor Richard Bowtell explains the technology in this video. More Easter Egg science at www.sixtysymbols.com
Ever notice how larger objects (like Brazil nuts) end up at the top of your cereal packet!? Physics can explain this. More at www.sixtysymbols.com
They are fundamental building blocks of the universe - but quarks were nearly called "aces" or "partons". More physics at www.sixtysymbols.com
