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Universe - The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5

Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5

Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5: It’s the ultimate question: why are we here? Cutting-edge space missions take us back 13.8 billion years to the very beginning – the origin of the Universe.     Professor Brian Cox asks the ultimate question: how did the Universe come to be? The Universe is daunting in its scale. […]

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Universe - Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4

Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4

Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4: Prof Brian Cox journeys into a supermassive black hole – a monster that can destroy worlds, stop time, and is forcing us to reassess our understanding of reality.     Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is

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Universe - The Milky Way: Island of Light episode 3

Universe – The Milky Way: Island of Light episode 3

Universe – The Milky Way: Island of Light episode 3: Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the cosmos by exploring the faint band of light that sweeps across the night sky – our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Sun is just one of almost 400 billion stars that form this vast, majestic disk of light, our own

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Universe - Alien Worlds

Universe – Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth episode 2

Universe – Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth episode 2: Humans have long gazed up at the night sky, wondering whether other lifeforms and intelligences could be thriving on worlds far beyond our own.     Answering that question seemed fated to remain pure speculation. But over the last few decades, ultra-sensitive telescopes and dogged detective work have transformed

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Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time episode 4 - What Is Time?

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 4 – What Is Time?

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 4 – What Is Time?: Brian explores a simple question that is causing a big stir today: what is time? Modern science shows it to be far stranger than we think. He recalls some highlights from his TV series that touch upon different aspects of this physics conundrum: from a mind-boggling encounter

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Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time episode 3

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 3 – What Is Gravity?

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 3: Brian takes a fresh look at the concept of gravity, revealing it to be far more than just the force that makes things fall to the ground. Recent scientific breakthroughs are challenging physicists’ ideas of the very nature of reality.     He recalls some of his most iconic TV moments:

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Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time episode 2 - Aliens: Are We Alone?

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 2

Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 2: Brian Cox looks at our attempts to answer one of the most profound questions we can ask – are we alone in the universe? With scientists sending space probes to the furthest reaches of our solar system and beyond, the scientific search for alien life has begun.     Inspired by

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 - The Pale Blue Dot

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot: In this final episode Professor Brian Cox travels to Iceland, where the delicate splendour of a moon-bow reveals the colours that paint our world, and he visits a volcano to explain why the sun shines.     By exploring how sunlight transforms the plains of the Serengeti,

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 - The Moth and the Flame

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 – The Moth and the Flame

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 – The Moth and the Flame: Professor Brian Cox shows how Earth’s basic ingredients, like the pure sulphur mined in the heart of a deadly volcano in Indonesia, have become the building blocks of life.     Hidden deep in a cave in the Dominican Republic lies a magical world created by

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 - Somewhere in Space-time

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time: Professor Brian Cox follows Earth’s epic journey through space.     He takes to the air in a top-secret fighter jet to race the spin of the planet and reverse the passage of the day. In Brazil, a monstrous wave that surges up the Amazon River provides an

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