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Tundra makes great #VR devlogs mostly about #physics-based interactions....

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will — and explores its ethical and psychological implications.

Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life....

This is the first part in a series about Computational Fluid Dynamics where we build a Fluid Simulator from scratch.

Explanation of The Selfish Gene, the gene's-eye view of evolution, which can be defined as the idea that the gene is the ultimate beneficiary of selection....

A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life....

In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation....

Journey to the Microcosmos is a great youtube channel about the microscopic world....

25,000 neurons growing on a multi-electrode array form a living "brain," which is hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. Information on the aircraft's movements is processed by stimulating neurons with electrodes. The neurons then fire in patterns that control the aircraft's flight path....

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as...

Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a very high concentration of mass hidden behind the plane of our galaxy. It has all the ingredients for an epic space mystery, it is the Great Attractor.

This channel has a bunch of high quality conversations about consciousness and similar topics.

A team of elite cavers led by 68-year-old explorer Bill Stone are in the depths of Cheve Cave, Mexico. At every step of the way, they use nature’s clues, following the wind and water within the cave, to navigate their next move. Underground it is a maze of twisting tunnels and dead ends in search of a passage that leads to the...

A collection of Chernobyl documentaries filmed on-site in October, 2021. Including a look at Pripyat's unique dog population!

Listened to an interesting programme about mathematics on the radio the other day....

Most of us are aware of the hive mind — the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In this ...

The Juvenile Wunderpus Photogenicus might make you remember the film Mars Attacks with the aliens with their brains showing through their helmets.They are ex...

The Chinese Room Argument was first proposed by philosopher John Searle in 1980. It is an argument against the possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) – that is, the idea that a machine could ever be truly intelligent, as opposed to just imitating intelligence.

When the Cardinal fish sucks up what it thinks will be dinner, the tiny sea creature, a type of ostracod, emits a burst of light. That burst saves the ostracod....

Discover the fascinating complexity of honeybee stingers under an electron microscope...

This is the first part of a three-part miniseries on the shape of the universe...

Richard Feynman is a good example of human curiosity, and his "fun to imagine" can easily make anybody wonder about the world.

A small display of some of the surprisingly intricate patterns and behaviours that can arise from relatively simple rules.