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  1. State of the Universe, The (2017)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film

    Our universe was created in ‘The Big Bang’ and has been expanding ever since. In this public lecture, Professor Brian Schmidt, from the Department of Physics at University of Oxford, describes the vital...

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  2. Christmas Lectures 1991: Waking Up in the Universe (1991)

    Subject
    Science

    Richard Dawkins presents the first in a series of lectures on the theme of "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe." (57 minutes). The other lectures in the series are also available...

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  3. Measuring the Universe: From the Transit of Venus to the Edge of the Cosmos (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    This short film explains how the transit of Venus was used in previous centuries to make an accurate measure of the distance to the planets, giving astronomers their first inkling of the true scale of space.

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  4. Remaking the Universe: Recreating a Black Hole - Where Art and Physics Collide (2011)

    Subject
    Art; Astronomy; Physics

    While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl (University of Geneva, CERN) to do so...

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  5. It from Bit: The Science of Information (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous ‘It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it...

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  6. Higgs Boson (2010)

    Subject
    Physics

    In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...

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  7. Powers of Ten (2000)

    Director
    Charles Eames; Ray Eames
    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 21 minutes), £19.14 (Art Data); $24.99 (Eames Gallery)

    The collection from Arts Data and Powersof 10.com contain: "Powers of Ten 1978" (9 minutes) "A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe"...

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  8. Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works (2011)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 lectures, 30 minutes each), £114.99

    This is an introductory college-level course in physics delivered by Professor Richard Wolfson. The DVD consists of 60 half-hour lectures and is broken into six subject areas: ‘Newtonian Mechanics’,...

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  9. Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell (2009)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £59.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £59.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This programme uses the latest techniques in cell visualisation and CGI to tell the story of the battle between a human cell and an adenovirus for the control of human DNA.

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  10. When Will Time End? (2009)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics

    It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking’s theory checks out. (21 minutes)

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