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Science journalist and RadioLab's Latif Nasser investigates the surprising and intricate ways in which we are connected to each other, the world and the universe. [Netflix] [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA on Aug 16, 2020 - 3 comments

The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company. Directed and written by Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room).
posted by Cash4Lead on Mar 21, 2019 - 19 comments

The efforts of theoretical physicists around the world come to fruition at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where experimental physicists bring their theories to life on the largest scale possible. Particle Fever tracks passionate scientists from both camps from 2008 to 2012, as the LHC fires up in an effort to discover the Higgs boson -- an elusive particle that may hold the key to our understanding of the universe, not to mention the future of physical science itself. [more inside]
posted by Mothlight on Jul 31, 2014 - 14 comments

On the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. How meteorites may carry life between worlds, as well as allow earthly life to have survived the scouring of the earth's surface in its early history. The possibility and potential problems of communicating with intelligent extraterrestrial life. How civilizations die, and how ours may survive.
posted by DevilsAdvocate on May 19, 2014 - 18 comments

Michael Faraday, with little formal education, makes incredible discoveries regarding electromagnetism. [more inside]
posted by DevilsAdvocate on May 13, 2014 - 6 comments

We travel through Earth's past, glimpsing at how different the world used to be and learning what processes and events caused (and continue to cause) its changes. [more inside]
posted by meese on May 10, 2014 - 6 comments