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A single-celled organism so massive it is visible to the naked eyeMost microscopic life remains hidden, but some single-celled organisms defy expectations by growing large enough to see without a microscope. This video examines a unique specimen…
A single-celled paramecium backs up and tries again when it hits somethingBump a paramecium into an obstacle and the hairlike cilia covering it reverse their power stroke, sending it swimming backwards for a moment before it sets off again at a new angl…
A single, violent impact may have blanketed the Martian moon Deimos in dust.Deimos is a lumpy, ellipsoidal moon of Mars, famously smoother than its companion, Phobos. While scientists long debated the origin of the thick, fine-grained debris covering its …
A singular clash in the longest campaign of the Second World WarExplore one of the most compelling ship-to-ship engagements of the Battle of the Atlantic, featuring the encounter between the German submarine U-66 and the Destroyer Escort USS B…
A singular vocal cord and a pair of glasses defined a global music iconNana Mouskouri conquered international charts by singing in over a dozen languages, yet her path to stardom was anything but conventional. From being barred from her conservatory …
A singularity is not a black hole; it is where mathematics breaks down.In mathematics, a singularity is a point where a function stops behaving predictably. Whether it is a division by zero, a jagged cusp, or an undefined limit, these points represen…
A sister's desperate search for her brother leads to a tragic confrontation with terrorism.In the 2000 crime thriller Fiza, a young woman traverses a landscape of political turmoil to find her sibling, who vanished during the 1993 Bombay riots. What begins as a hopeful …
A sister's relentless pursuit of justice for her wrongly convicted brother in 2010's ConvictionThe 2010 biographical drama Conviction tells the true story of Betty Anne Waters, a woman who became a lawyer specifically to exonerate her brother, Kenny. After he was sentenced …
A sitcom about army surgeons produced the most-watched finale in American television historyM*A*S*H ran for eleven seasons, far longer than the Korean War it depicted. Set in a mobile army hospital, it lurched between slapstick and grief, quietly needled America's Cold W…
A sitcom that faced backlash for its portrayal of body imageWhen Mike & Molly premiered, the cast's appearance sparked a national debate about representation and weight. While critics praised the chemistry between Billy Gardell and Melissa…
A sitcom that redefined the mother-daughter dynamic for millionsWhen Nikki Parker decided to return to college nearly 20 years after dropping out, she didn't just enroll in classes—she sparked a cultural phenomenon. The series explored the fri…
A six-hour journey to begin a six-month mission in orbitWatch the launch of the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft as it carries a diverse crew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome toward the International Space Station to begin their long-term residenc…
A six-hour journey to join the crew aboard the International Space StationIn late September 2013, a Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan to begin a five-and-a-half-month mission. This journey was part of the transition between Expeditions 37 and 38…
A six-hour journey to join the crew of the International Space StationOn September 25, 2014, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts toward a high-stakes mission. This arrival restored the station's full comple…
A six-hour journey to the edge of orbitWatch the precise coordination required to bring a new crew to the International Space Station. This footage captures the arrival of Expedition 51-52, highlighting the technical m…
A six-hour journey to the edge of orbitWatch the arrival of the next generation of explorers as three astronauts and cosmonauts successfully dock with the International Space Station. This footage captures the precise …- A six-hour journey to the International Space StationWitness the 2013 launch of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft. This footage captures the ascent from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and features interviews following the mission's start.
A six-minute incident that defined a decade of heartbreakIn the 2018 Telugu romantic drama Tholi Prema, a single impulsive moment on a train sets a lifelong cycle of separation in motion. Spanning years and continents, the story explore…
A six-month journey begins as new crew reaches the International Space StationWitness the launch of Soyuz TMA-19M, carrying a multi-national crew from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station for a half-year mission in orbit.
A six-ton delivery of science and supplies heads for orbitWatch as NASA prepares to launch a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on its second resupply mission. This video covers the logistics of transporting critical materials to the International…
A six-year development cycle turned this sci-fi shooter into a notorious gaming disaster.Aliens: Colonial Marines was meant to be the definitive interactive sequel to the 1986 film. Instead, it became a cautionary tale of outsourced development, broken promises, and f…
A six-year-old girl who hates soup became an icon of Argentine political satireCreated as a covert advertisement for a home appliance company, Mafalda evolved into a globally recognized comic strip. The titular character, a precocious six-year-old with a dee…
A six-year-old sultan reigned for 39 years, mostly while out huntingMehmed IV became Ottoman sultan at six, after his father was overthrown, and held the throne for 39 years, second only to Suleiman the Magnificent. Contemporaries nicknamed him th…
A sixteen-year struggle to adapt a classic anti-war novel into a cinematic epicBringing Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 masterpiece to the screen was a grueling sixteen-year odyssey for writers Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell. To keep the project alive, Paterson…
A sixteenth-century encyclopedia of Aztec life is finally reaching a global digital audience.The Florentine Codex is a monumental manuscript documenting the culture, religion, and history of early colonial Mexico. Compiled by a Franciscan friar and his Indigenous students…
A sixteenth-century fortress in Pakistan that remains a living, breathing community todayCommissioned by Sher Shah Suri to block Mughal movements, Rohtas Fort is a massive military marvel. Though built for war, it evolved into a rare living fort, with a village occupy…
A Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece Spanning the Drina River and Centuries of HistoryCompleted in 1577, the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge is a pinnacle of Ottoman engineering. Spanning the Drina River in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this UNESCO World Heritage site was d…
A sixth-century church reader preserved the history of an entire empire through his chronicles.Theodorus Lector, a reader at Constantinople's Hagia Sophia, compiled essential historical records that bridge the gap between antiquity and the Byzantine era. While much of his o…
A sixth-century monk posed as Saint Paul's convert and fooled Christendom for centuriesThe author signed himself Dionysios, implying he was the Athenian whom Paul converted in the Book of Acts. For roughly a thousand years many readers believed it, and his writings …
A sixth-grade teacher told Bill Kreutzmann he lacked rhythm, yet he became a legend.Before co-founding the Grateful Dead, a young Bill Kreutzmann was told by a music teacher that he could not keep a beat. He ignored the critique, practiced incessantly, and eventu…
A sixty-one-kilometre strait still gates the Black Sea worldNarrow enough that land forts once defined its English name, the Dardanelles runs sixty-one kilometres between Marmara and the Aegean, averaging fifty-five metres deep. Paired wit…
A skateboarding, guitar-playing dinosaur became a 1980s icon before being rebooted for modern audiences.Before the CGI era, a green dinosaur named Denver hatched from a prehistoric egg in Los Angeles. Befriended by local teens, he learned to skateboard, play electric guitar, and eat…
A skull fracture is more than just a broken bone in your headWhile often viewed as a simple break, a skull fracture signals that significant force has impacted the cranium. These injuries range from minor linear cracks to complex compound f…
A skyscraper built on a platform above active rail lines in ManhattanRising from the West Side of Midtown, 30 Hudson Yards is a feat of engineering that rests on a massive platform over active train tracks. This supertall tower, home to major media…
A skyscraper inspired by the strength of a bamboo bundleIn the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, Landmark 81 rises as a symbol of Vietnamese ambition. Beyond its status as a regional titan, its architecture draws from a cultural metaphor for …
A slanted box hides one of geometry's most stubborn unsolved puzzlesTake a cube and push it sideways so every face leans into a parallelogram. The result is a parallelepiped. In 2009 mathematicians found dozens whose edges and diagonals are all wh…- A slasher film set in 1988 attempts to revive a classic horror book seriesFear Street: Prom Queen arrived on Netflix in 2025 as a standalone installment in the slasher franchise. Set during a high school dance in 1988, the film follows a series of bruta…
A slave inherits the strength of one hundred souls to protect a prophesied child.After a brutal maritime massacre, a young boy named Julian is granted the combined power and lives of one hundred murdered slaves by a mysterious sea entity. Now, he must navigate…
A slave-owning Spanish colonist became the Indies' fiercest defenderBartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola in 1502 as a settler, joined raids and held Indigenous labourers. In 1514, while preparing a Pentecost sermon on a passage from Eccles…
A Slavic highland makes more than a million cars a yearSlovakia, a landlocked Central European republic of about 49,000 square kilometres and more than 5.4 million people, borders Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, and Czechia. In 202…
A Slavic name for a Romanian capital of tradeThe name Târgoviște reveals a linguistic history that predates its status as a Romanian powerhouse. Derived from an old Slavonic word for "marketplace," the city served as a vital…
A sled named Rosebud outlived Hearst's news blackoutOrson Welles's first feature arrived with rare final-cut power, a composite tycoon, and a dying whisper. William Randolph Hearst barred the film from his papers. It lost money, ne…
A sleepy New York town raid forced the FBI to finally admit the Mafia existedFor decades, J. Edgar Hoover denied the Mafia was a national threat, focusing instead on Cold War subversion. That changed on November 14, 1957, when a local sergeant stumbled upo…
A slice of Indian architectural heritage in the heart of suburban LondonDiscover the origins of the Neasden Temple, a striking landmark in north-west London. This video introduces the site's construction and its significance as a unique cultural prese…
A slim 1957 book by Noam Chomsky upended how linguists study languageIn 1957 a young MIT teacher published Syntactic Structures, arguing that grammar is a system of rules the mind generates rather than habits drilled in by reward. Reactions ranged …- A Slovenian lake with a Bronze Age cult past and a protected cream pastryNestled in the Julian Alps, Lake Bled is far more than a picturesque tourist destination. From its ancient status as a Bronze Age cult center to its modern role as a hub for rowin…
A slow-burn exploration of identity, friendship, and the nuances of loveWhat happens when a secret hobby becomes a bridge to connection? Sasaki and Miyano explores the quiet, internal journey of two high school boys navigating self-discovery. It moves…
A slow-evolving gene sharpens the fungal family treeResearchers comparing a gene called RPB2 to the standard 18S rRNA method found it gave much stronger statistical support for the evolutionary branches linking major fungal groups.…
A small Bosnian village became a global pilgrimage site despite decades of Vatican caution.Since 1981, millions of pilgrims have visited Medjugorje, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, drawn by reports of Virgin Mary apparitions. While the site faced initial suppressio…
A small California mountain city became the center of a national environmental battlegroundNestled in the Sierra Nevada, Portola is known for its railroad heritage and rugged landscape. Yet, in the late 1990s, this quiet community found itself in the national spotlight …
A small German magazine once challenged the Reichswehr and survived decades of political upheaval.Die Weltbühne began as a modest theater journal in 1905, but it evolved into a fierce, radical-democratic voice during the Weimar Republic. Despite a circulation of only 15,000, i…
A small hook that shapes the sounds of entire language familiesThe caron is more than a mere squiggle over a letter; it is a precise linguistic tool used to signal palatalization, tone, and specific consonant articulations across continents. …
A small icy moon of Saturn sprays an ocean into spaceNear the south pole of Enceladus, more than 100 geysers blast water vapour, salt crystals and ice grains off the moon at around 200 kilograms every second. Some of it snows back d…
A small Indian kingdom defeated the Dutch at Colachel in the 1740sIn the war of 1739 to 1746, the forces of Travancore, a young kingdom at India's southern tip, beat the Dutch East India Company's troops at the Battle of Colachel. It is regarded…
A small London publisher's gamble on a rejected manuscript changed its fortunesFor most of its early life Bloomsbury was a minor name in British publishing. Then in 1997 it took a chance on a children's fantasy series that several other publishers had alread…
A small Los Angeles mission in 1906 launched a faith of hundreds of millionsIn April 1906 a one-eyed Black preacher named William Seymour began leading worship on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Black and white believers prayed side by side, spoke in tongues…
A small orphan and a wooden statue: the enduring legacy of a Spanish classicIn 1955, a modest Spanish film about an abandoned boy and a miraculous crucifix captured global hearts. Beyond its initial critical acclaim, the story of Marcelino has been reimag…
A small p is not the chance your hypothesis is trueIn null-hypothesis significance testing, a p-value is the probability of seeing a result at least as extreme as the one observed if the null hypothesis were true. Tiny p-values ma…- A small Pennsylvania borough became the site of a pivotal act of defianceShanksville, a quiet borough of fewer than 200 people, gained global significance on September 11, 2001. When United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township, th…
- A small Pennsylvania town where Moravian history meets global music production and mousetrapsFounded by Moravians in 1756, this Lancaster County borough evolved from a cloistered religious community into a surprising hub for international touring stars and industrial manu…