Videos
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Biology
Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse
6 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing
14 minutes
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The ancient world
From eruption to obliteration – the sights and sounds of 48 fateful hours in Pompeii
9 minutes
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Demography and migration
How we became more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised
6 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus
4 minutes
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Death
In 2009, a man arrived in an Irish town with a plan to disappear forever
19 minutes
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Music
Music was ubiquitous in ancient Greece. Now we can hear how it actually sounded
16 minutes
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Sports and games
Dances with whales: the ethereal underwater vistas of an elite freediving team
13 minutes
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History of ideas
Why Socrates believed that sexual desire is the first step towards righteousness
2 minutes
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Death
An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
18 minutes
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Biology
Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second
5 minutes
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Ageing and death
Death is a trip – how new research links near-death and DMT experiences
9 minutes