The Science Hour

Supporting Content

• Gravitational Waves

  Gravity and ripples in the fabric of space time - what do these mean for us?

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• Lasering avocados

  Supermarkets trial new lasering technique to reduce packaging

  Duration: 0:26

• The impact that killed the dinosaur

  Exciting geology of Chicxulub crater

  Duration: 0:37

• Robot Stingray

  The tissue-engineered ray was challenged to swim through an obstacle course

  Duration: 0:32

• Young chimps that play with ‘dolls’

  Why young chimps play with rocks as if they were dolls

  Duration: 1:03
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• New Horizons: The First Mission to the Pluto System and the Kuiper Belt

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