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Seeing double
Nadia Bahjat-Abbas is a mature student working on one of the hardest problems of modern physics. Find out more in this video.
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The mother of all theories
The holy grail for 21st century physics is to produce a unified theory of everything — M-theory is a prime candidate. Find out more in this video.
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Black holes and spacetime bubbles
Masaki Shigemori works on black holes and spacetime bubbles. Find out more in this video.
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The physics of language
Sanjaye Ramgoolam uses techniques from physics in linguistics, the study of languages. Find out more about this surprising connection between physics, maths and language in this video.
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The unreasonable relationship between mathematics and physics
Can physics do for maths what maths has done for physics?
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Celebrating Stephen Hawking
In memory of Stephen Hawking we look at the equation he was most proud of.
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The best of both worlds
Straddling the boundary between pure and applied mathematics.
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New windows on the Universe
Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
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Listening for ripples in spacetime
Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.
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Maths in a minute: Gravitational waves
A quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.
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Maths in a minute: Black holes
A quick introduction to the monsters that lurk at the centre of each galaxy.
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Do we live in a hologram?
Physicists have discovered evidence that our Universe might be a giant hologram.