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  1. Novel Explanation and the Special Sciences: Lessons from Physics (2017)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics

    Audio recording of a talk given by Eleanor Knox, who is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, on 23rd January 2017. Knox’s work has two strands, one in the foundations of spacetime physics,...

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  2. 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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  3. Do Black Holes Have No Hair? (2016)

    Producer
    Jim Frank
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics

    Radio 4 broadcast. The first of Professor Hawking’s 2015 Reith lectures delivered 24 November 2015 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking...

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  4. Black Holes Are Not As Black As They Are Painted (2016)

    Producer
    Jim Frank
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics

    Radio 4 broadcast. The second of Professor Hawking’s 2015 Reith lectures delivered 1 December 2015 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking...

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  5. Colour: The Spectrum of Science (2016)

    Director
    Alex Hemingway
    Producer
    Alex Hemingway
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3x50 minutes), £585

    Documentary series presented by Helen Czerski. Just 15 colours tell the entire story of Earth, life and scientific discovery. The series explains how each of these colours occurs, unlocking the mysteries of...

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  6. What is an Alloy? (2016)

    Subject
    Engineering; Physics

    Short film explaining the basics of alloys, including how they are made and adapted for everyday use. [8 minutes]

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  7. Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Mathematics of Big Hair (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics

    A talk by Professor Raymond E. Goldstein which discusses the maths behind the physical properties of hair. Can the macroscopic properties of hair - its texture, body, volume and other qualities such as...

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  8. Experiment to Eclipse All Others, An (2016)

    Subject
    Physics; Science; Technology

    In this short documentary Richard Middlemiss, winner of the 2017 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture for Engineering, Technology and Industry, attempts to re-create the experiment that gave the first...

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  9. Extreme World of Ultra Extreme Lasers, The (2015)

    Subject
    Engineering; Physics

    Video podcast. The largest and most powerful lasers in the world can be used to make some of the most extreme conditions possible on earth. Scientists around the globe are using these lasers to try to...

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  10. Tunnel to the Beginning of Time, A: Experimental Physics at Lhc (2015)

    Subject
    Physics; Science

    The particle collisions created at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland now involve energies never before achieved in the laboratory and may shed light on new fundamental particles and...

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