Articles
The long version of what the videos cover. Each one explains an instrument or a result properly, and links to the short if you want it ready to publish.
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How IceCube Turned a Cubic Kilometre of Antarctica Into a Telescope
Neutrinos pass through planets without noticing. To catch them you need a detector the size of a mountain, and the cheapest way to get one is to stop building and start drilling.
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How LIGO Detects a Ripple Smaller Than a Proton
Gravitational waves stretch space by about one part in 10^21. Here is the actual mechanism LIGO uses to measure a distance change ten thousand times smaller than a proton, and why it took forty years to build.
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Stellarator vs Tokamak: Why Wendelstein 7-X Is Twisted
A tokamak is simple to build and hard to run continuously. A stellarator is the reverse. Here is the physical reason the two machines look so different, and what Wendelstein 7-X was built to prove.