Video documentaries about science and technology
In Human Universe episode 4: A Place in Space and Time: professor Brian Cox explores our origins, place and destiny in the universe. We all start our lives thinking that we are at the centre of the universe, surrounded by our family and the world as it spins around us. But the urge to explore is strong. Brian tells the […]
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In Human Universe episode 3: Brian Cox explores the ingredients needed for an intelligent civilisation to evolve in the universe – the need for a benign star, for a habitable planet, for life to spontaneously arise on such a planet and the time required for intelligent life to evolve and build a civilisation. Brian weighs the evidence and arrives at
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In Human Universe episode 2: Brian Cox reveals how the wonderful complexity of nature and human life is simply the consequence of chance events constrained by the laws of physics that govern our universe. But this leads him to a deeper question – why does our universe seem to have been set up with just the right rules to create
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In Human Universe episode 1: Professor Brian Cox asks the biggest questions we can ask as he explores our origins, our place and our destiny in the universe. Brian begins his exploration in the beautiful Ethiopian Highlands, where he has a rare encounter with our distant cousins, the gelada monkeys. They were once Africa’s most successful primate, roaming
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A look at two missions attempting one of the most difficult feats of space exploration – to collect a rock from another world. This episode checks in on the US and Japanese attempts to bring a piece of an asteroid back to Earth. The missions have taken decades of planning, but the results will be worth it. 
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Journey from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything…signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. With cutting-edge imagery from the world’s most powerful telescopes, The Search for Life in Space takes audiences from the surface of Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn,
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A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest efforts at putting humans into space are now those of private companies started by a handful of maverick billionaire businessmen. The 21st Century Race for Space Brian Cox gains exclusive access behind the scenes at Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Spaceport America,
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The Sky at Night – Return to the Moon ? –Â Nearly 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and it seemed like the dawn of a new age. Soon we’d be flying to the moon as effortlessly as we fly to America, and a moon base would be filled with men and women building a better future
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Guide to the Galaxy: all good travel guides need a map, and the team unveil the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way ever produced. A map that reveals that there may be 50 per cent more stars in the galaxy than we previously thought. American astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson gives us a guided tour of the
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Space-time is the secret structure that controls the universe, and this strange four-dimensional substance controls time, light, and energy. It will also determine how the universe will end. Space-time In physics, space-time is any mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Space-time diagrams are
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Quasars are the brightest and most powerful objects in our universe, and though they have shaped the cosmos, they might ultimately destroy everything that exists. Quasar A quasar (also quasi-stellar object or QSO) is an active galactic nucleus of very high luminosity. A quasar consists of a super massive black hole surrounded by an orbiting accretion disk
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The Milky Way is dying, and experts are investigating what’s killing it. How is the universe put together? How is it built? And how does it actually work? Science’s hit space series will blow your mind by answering how the universe started and how it will end – and everything in between. Learn how nuclear fusion keeps them
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