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Neutrino - Hunting the Ghost Particle

Neutrino – Hunting the Ghost Particle

Neutrino – Hunting the Ghost Particle – This isn’t just a story; it’s an awe-inspiring epic of human perseverance and intellectual brilliance. It tells the incredible saga of how dedicated scientists have waged a tireless battle for nearly a hundred years to detect and decipher the intricacies of the neutrino, the most minuscule and peculiar particle of matter known to […]

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Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe

Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe – As Nasa releases the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, this film tells the inside story of the telescope’s construction and the astronomers taking its first picture of distant stars and galaxies. Will it be the deepest image of our universe ever taken?     The successor to

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Sound Waves - The Symphony of Physics - Using Sound episode 2

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Using Sound episode 2

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Using Sound episode 2: Dr Helen Czerski examines the extraordinary messages sound waves carry and how they help us understand the world around us.     Visiting a hidden location buried beneath the hills of Scotland, Helen experiences some of the most extreme acoustics in the world. Here she learns just how

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Sound Waves - The Symphony of Physics - Making Sound episode 1

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Making Sound episode 1

Sound Waves – The Symphony of Physics – Making Sound episode 1: Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the sounds we’re familiar with and the sounds that we normally can’t hear.     She begins by exploring the simplest of ideas: what is a sound? At the Palace of Westminster, Helen teams up with scientists from the University

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Colour - The Spectrum of Science episode 1

Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 1

Colour – The Spectrum of Science episode 1: Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works and how it has written the story of our planet. She seeks out the colours that turned the Earth multicoloured.     We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we

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Gravity and Me - The Force That Shapes Our Lives

Gravity and Me – The Force That Shapes Our Lives

Gravity and Me – The Force That Shapes Our Lives: Physics professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. A fundamental force of nature, gravity shapes our entire universe, sculpting galaxies and warping space and time. But gravity’s strange powers, discovered by Albert Einstein, also affect our daily lives in the most unexpected ways. As Jim tells the story

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Absolute Zero episode 2 - The Race for Absolute Zero

Absolute Zero episode 2 – The Race for Absolute Zero

Absolute Zero episode 2 – The Race for Absolute Zero: Documentary charting rival attempts to reach absolute zero, the ultimate limit of cold, by scientists in London and Leiden. A second race unfolded 100 years later, towards the end of the 20th century, as scientists attempted to produce a Bose Einstein Condensate, a new state of matter predicted by Einstein.

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The Story of Electricity episode 3 - Revelations and Revolutions

The Story of Electricity episode 3 – Revelations and Revolutions

The Story of Electricity episode 3 – Revelations and Revolutions: Jim Al-Khalili concludes by looking at how, if we could understand the secret of electrical superconductivity, we could once again transform the world.     Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as

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The Story of Electricity episode 2 - The Age of Invention

The Story of Electricity episode 2 – The Age of Invention

The Story of Electricity episode 2 – The Age of Invention: Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements.     Without

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The Story of Electricity episode 1 - Spark

The Story of Electricity episode 1 – Spark

The Story of Electricity episode 1 – Spark: Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements.     Without electricity, we would

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