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The Sky at Night - The Search for Alien Life

The Sky at Night – The Search for Alien Life

The Sky at Night – The Search for Alien Life – The Sky at Night team delves into the latest scientific advancements in the search for extraterrestrial life. With a heightened obsession for finding aliens, scientists are employing the most sophisticated engineering and technology to explore bizarre and fascinating areas across the universe.       Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock visits Professor Mark Sephton at Imperial College London, who is leading the Perseverance Rover mission to Mars. This mission is remarkable as it will bring samples of rock from another planet back to Earth. Mark showcases how images sent from the […]

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Secrets of the Super Elements

Secrets of the Super Elements

Secrets of the Super Elements: Forget oil, coal and gas – a new set of materials is shaping our world and they’re so bizarre they may as well be alien technology. In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, materials scientist Prof Mark Miodownik reveals the super elements that underpin our high-tech world.     We have become utterly dependent on them, but they are rare and they’re already running out. The stuff that makes our smartphones work could be gone in a decade and our ability to feed the world depends mostly on a mineral found

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