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The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 2

The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 2

The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 2: Helen Czerski explores the narrow band of temperature that has led to life on Earth and shows how all living creatures depend on temperature for its survival. She reveals how life began in a dramatic place where hot meets cold, and how every single living creature on Earth depends on temperature for its […]

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The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 1

The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 1

The Incredible Science of Temperature episode 1 – Frozen Solid : Dr Helen Czerski discovers how cold has shaped our planet, and how pushing the limits of cold has unlocked new technologies, from superconductors to quantum computing.       Everything around us – from the tiniest insect on Earth to the most distant stars of the cosmos – exists

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Origins of Us - Brains

Origins of Us – Brains

Origins of Us – Brains: Dr Alice Roberts explores how our species, Homo sapiens, developed its large brain and asks why humans are the only ape of its kind left on the planet today. The evolution of the human mind is one of the greatest mysteries. It is the basis of religion, philosophy and science. We are special because of

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Origins of Us - Guts

Origins of Us – Guts

Origins of Us – Guts: In this second episode, Dr Alice Roberts charts how our ancestors’ hunt for food has driven the way we look and behave today – from the shape of our face to the way we see, and even the way we attract the opposite sex.       Clues to our ancestors’ diet can be found

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Bones

Origins of Us – Bones

Origins of Us – Bones: In the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey. Trekking through the forests of our ancient ancestors, she goes to meet the apes who still live there today – chimpanzees. In six million years we have become very different, and what kick-started this can be found in

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The Sky at Night - Photographing the Universe

The Sky at Night – Photographing the Universe

The Sky at Night – Photographing the Universe: For centuries, humans have been drawing what they see in the night sky through telescopes. But there is something about a photograph that can make you feel you are right there, up close to the moon, planet, star or galaxy you are looking at. Having the light from those distance objects, fixed

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The Sky at Night - James Webb Road Trip

The Sky at Night – James Webb Road Trip

The Sky at Night – James Webb Road Trip: On 12 July 2022, the Sky at Night joined the rest of the world to watch as the James Webb Space Telescope released its long-awaited first images. And it didn’t disappoint. Stars and galaxies were revealed in such detail that they blew even the most experienced astronomers away. However, as spectacular

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Chasing the Moon episode 3

Chasing the Moon episode 3

Chasing the Moon episode 3: After the immediate celebration of 1968’s successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about the space programme emerged with new intensity as politicised young Americans challenged the nation’s priorities. Nasa pushed brashly forward.       After the lunar orbit, competition escalated among the training astronauts. Who would be chosen for the first moon landing? In

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Chasing the Moon episode 2

Chasing the Moon episode 2

Chasing the Moon episode 2: What exactly was it going to take for America to beat the Soviets to the moon? Cold War tensions persisted, as rumours circulated that the Soviets were preparing to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Nasa quickly developed the Gemini program, sending astronauts into orbit around the Earth to practice critical manoeuvres for the

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Chasing the Moon episode 1

Chasing the Moon episode 1

Chasing the Moon episode 1: On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 – a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere – into orbit. The satellite caused a sensation. Amid Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union’s accomplishment signalled a dramatic technological advantage and American felt it had little choice but to join the Space Race.       Then

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Unvaccinated

Unvaccinated

Unvaccinated: Hannah Fry meets seven unvaccinated people to investigate why around four million adults remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, and to find out if any of them will change their mind.       Covid-19 is on the rise again in the UK. After multiple lockdowns and more than 197,000 deaths, experts are warning we’re now entering a fifth wave of

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Big Oil v the World episode 3

Big Oil v the World episode 3

Big Oil v the World episode 3: How the 2010s became another lost decade in the fight against climate change – as the move to natural gas delayed a transition to more renewable sources of energy. Engineer Tony Ingraffea explains how, in the 1980s, he helped develop a new technique for extracting gas and oil from shale rock, which ultimately

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