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How did animals first make the giant step from water to land? Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll explains how the discovery of Tiktaalik—a fossil with both fish and limb-like features—revealed a key moment in evolution.For more, check out the extended interview with Sean B. C ...  Show more

What if whales had legs? Once upon a time, they did. Sort of. An astonishing fossil trail shows that modern whales actually evolved from hooved land mammals. Whales still carry the fingerprints of this past, from their stomach anatomy to their swimming gait. Dive in to discover t ...  Show more

Everyone knows about the Big Bang being the beginning of the universe and time - but when and how is it going to end? ask brothers Raffie and Xe from Rome. For this series, with lockdown learning in mind, Drs Rutherford and Fry are investigating scientific mysteries for students ...  Show more

Hear what proved to physicists that the universe started with the Big Bang - and the one person who was never convinced.

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We are all made of particles – but what are particles made of? It’s a question that’s been perplexing scientists for centuries - for so long, in fact, that listener Doug in Canada wants to know if there’s a limit to how much they can ever discover. CrowdScience heads out to CERN, ...  Show more

À la fin des années 1920, les astronomes Georges-Henri Lemaître et Edwin Hubble mettent au point deux théories qui sont à la base de notre conception actuelle de l'univers : le Big-Bang et l'expansion de cet univers.

Depuis cette époque, les spécialistes, forts de co ...