din1J2mZmc4 pbs-eons-the-graveyard-at-the-center-of-the-earth PBS Eons | The Graveyard at The Center of the Earth Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it. R9tJ4TkG0fU pbs-space-time-will-the-big-bang-happen-again-and-again PBS Space Time | Will The Big Bang Happen Again and Again? How did the universe begin? How can something come from nothing? y4ouRg_RbVY pbs-eons-did-asteroids-spark-life-2025 PBS Eons | Did Asteroids Spark Life? (2025) We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth. BByfsocqDU4 pbs-america-the-last-artifact-full-special PBS America | The Last Artifact | Full Special The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the world's base unit to measure weight and reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet. kT_CTRCfPnw pbs-america-special-the-amish-shunned PBS America Special | The Amish: Shunned What is it like to be cut off from your faith and your family? 5rlz2iW0Kzs danny-vera-roller-coaster-2019 Danny Vera | Roller Coaster (2019) Danny Vera | ‘Roller Coaster’ | We love this song so much, we made a proper video for it. XMjLwmgipsA pbs-eons-when-earth-ate-a-planet-2024 PBS Eons | When Earth Ate A Planet (2024) Where did our unique moon come from? It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue, pointing to the origin of our closest cosmic companion, an origin even stranger than you might imagine… 26ZmKqLNSZ8 pbs-space-time-can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-force PBS Space Time | Can a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force? All particles belong to two large groups: fermions like protons and electrons make everything we consider "matter", while bosons like photons and gluons transmit the fundamental forces. WqcoMOxGWfs pbs-eons-theres-no-single-cradle-of-humankind-2024 PBS Eons | There's No Single Cradle of Humankind (2024) It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all along. 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(2024) When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become something that we actually started doing? uMItdDUYAeA pbs-eons-animals-might-be-much-older-than-we-thought PBS Eons | Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself? HE2MmAGUgnw pbs-eons-our-most-mysterious-extinct-cousins-2024 PBS Eons | Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins (2024) There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors. ALmS9E87LCg pbs-space-time-does-antimatter-create-anti-gravity PBS Space Time | Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity? From hoverboards to flying cars to cloud cities, anti-gravity is a staple of science fiction and our dream of a less Earth-bound future. But in the real universe gravity appears to be a purely attractive force. viTE77xIji0 pbs-eons-beans-and-bees-not-bats-gave-us-butterflies-2023 PBS Eons | Beans and Bees, Not Bats, Gave Us Butterflies (2023) Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and beans. CleBC18qoyA pbs-eons-the-huge-extinctions-we-are-just-now-discovering PBS Eons | The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering What graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and suffocating before eventually clearing up again. opg6RO9cYnk pbs-eons-when-did-we-stop-being-naked-2023 PBS Eons | When Did We Stop Being Naked? (2023) Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes? 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To understand where we came from, how earth, the solar system, the galaxy became what they are today, we need to understand the beginning of time. PNGs-CLgBfk pbs-eons-that-time-the-ocean-lost-almost-all-its-oxygen PBS Eons | That Time The Ocean Lost Almost All its Oxygen This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years. H5XVxKNzhjQ pbs-eons-did-a-tsunami-swallow-part-of-europe-2023 PBS Eons | Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe? (2023) What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? aYH-KYdgXag pbs-eons-we-helped-make-mosquitoes-a-problem PBS Eons | We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem Around 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah. ng1hVUozyuQ pbs-eons-how-the-giraffe-got-its-neck-2023 PBS Eons | How The Giraffe Got Its Neck (2023) How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over – one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again. 70Qi4Nk3aJc pbs-eons-a-natural-history-of-mars-2023 PBS Eons | A Natural History of Mars (2023) While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door. 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