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Our new video with Zandy Forbes, President and CEO of @MeiraGTx, is now live.

Check it out here: https://t.co/lAM26n0Gdl

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We also have a second video with Prof El-Baz, where he details the panic in Mission Control when they found out the Lunar Lander Eagle was not where they planned it to be when it descended.

https://t.co/svV8Eoyozs

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Today marks 53 years since the iconic Apollo 11 mission successfully put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.

In our new video, former NASA scientist Farouk El-Baz reveals a secret mission he gave the pair to complete.

https://t.co/rfmkSBMpbY

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This not only opens up the possibility of understanding the impacts of spaceflight on the human body but could also help mitigate the effects of ageing.

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Our new video, with @csbd7, explains why @spacegovuk has sent thousands of worms up to the ISS as part of the Molecular Muscle Experiment.

https://t.co/lS7EefpkgG

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These microscopic worms, known as C. elegans, share many of the essential characteristics as humans and are affected by biological changes in space.

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Turing was shockingly prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted chemical castration to avoid a prison sentence. Two years later, he was found dead from cyanide poisoning at just 41 years old. #PrideMonth

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On what would have been his 110th birthday, our new @Science__Digest video with @KHClem remembers Alan Turing and the heroic work of those at Bletchley Park that helped crack Enigma during World War 2. https://t.co/4ejnEyk54b

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Titanic expert @Timmaltin explains how an optical phenomenon on April 15, 1912, caused lookouts on the famed vessel to see the iceberg too late in our new @Science__Digest video.

https://t.co/ik9ZiyE1fA

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Professor @malcolm_mjj, from @LivUni, explains how the @MicroAgeUoL team, funded by the @spacegovuk, sent muscle tissue to the ISS to help learn more about ageing.
https://t.co/CaP3jq7D2J

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Our first video with @PulsarFusion is now live
https://t.co/hR9IBKhy0z