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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Avalanches
Ever wondered how avalanches occur? This video reveals the science behind this natural disaster.
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Tornadoes
Simulate a tornado by watching this short instructional video and understand how this violent whirldwind forms.
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments
Watch these short videos investigating extreme weather and you can even try to recreate an avalanche, dust storm, flood or tornado for yourself!
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Floods
Create your own mini flood model and unleash the devastation wreaked by lots of rain by following the steps in this video.
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Introduction to quantum computing
Quantum computing is a developing field with enormous potential societal and economic impact. In the future, quantum computers will enable us to solve a range of complex problems that are currently intractable, potentially revolutionising key sectors including medicine, finance and the pharmaceutical industry. In this free course you will learn ...
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Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
This free course explores Coulomb’s law, the physical law that governs the force between electric charges, and shows how it can be verified experimentally. As a prerequisite you will need some mathematical knowledge of vectors. This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM381 Electromagnetism.
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History & The Arts
Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
This article is part of a collection produced for Valentine’s Day. Who would you select for your Valentine from these iconic figures from history?
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Taking a Galactic Census
Counting stars in the sky is easy - but how do we know how far away they are?
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Event horizons
Just what is the point of no return? German physicist, Karl Schwarzchild calculated the event horizon of black holes. And it can tell us more about the eventual fate of all the galaxies.
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark energy
Dark Energy explores how Einstein was right all along about the expanding Universe. We never should have doubted him
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Dark matter
Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who discovered Dark Matter in the Universe. But what's the matter with dark matter?
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Large Hadron Collider
Turns out the Large Hadron Collider is not as dangerous as we thought