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Ninety million miles away from us is the power that shapes our world - the sun. We see it shine in the sky above us, but beyond our sight something dramatic is happening - the sun is going into overdrive. It's more active now than it's been for a decade, sending eruptions of super-heated plasma and vast waves of radiation towards our planet, with the potential to disrupt our lives in dramatic ways. Using the latest satellite images, and the expertise of Britain's leading solar scientists, Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of our very own star, and the influence its mysterious cycles of activity have on our planet.

Brian Cox explains how we can discover what stars are made of by analysing the light that arrives on earth from the stars. Elements are shown to emit certain colours when they are burnt.

Professor Brian Cox explains how stars die. Stars are only able to survive as long as they have a supply of hydrogen to burn. But all stars will eventually run out and then die.

Professor Brian Cox demonstrates how the chemical elements are made in the death throes of a dying star. All 92 elements on Earth, including those that make up our bodies, were formed at the heart of a star.

Professor Stephen Hawking is going to help you think like a genius, reveal your true potential and answer some big questions about the world around us.

The forces of nature have kept Earth on the move since it was formed billions of years ago, we follow its epic journey shaping our lives.

In the south of France, scientists from 37 countries are building the most complex machine ever attempted: an artificial sun. If they get it right, it will illuminate the way to produce clean, cheap, abundant energy for millions of years. If they fail, it will be one of the biggest scientific failures of all time. Nuclear fusion has been the holy grail of energy for many decades now. It’s the process that drives stars, the ultimate source of energy in the universe. The possibility that fusion might be achievable on Earth as an energy source has driven scientists to the edge of reason for almost a century. Original title: Let There Be Light.

Professor Brian Cox is able to witness the oldest light in the Universe, by listening to its stretched wavelengths through a radio.

Professor Brian Cox explains the concept of entropy and the arrow of time. Entropy is the measure of how many ways in which something can be rearranged.

Professor Brian Cox simulates the strength of gravity on other planets using a centrifuge in Holland. Gravity is the force that keeps our feet on the ground.

Professor Brian Cox experiences what a world without gravity would be like. Brian falls from 15km on board a special aircraft, nicknamed the 'vomit comet', to experience weightlessness.

Brian Cox explains why black holes are invisible. Black holes are the most destructive forces in the universe, able to devour whole stars. We cannot see them, but we can see the effect they have on the surrounding space.

From award winning producer David Grubin this biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of the most important American scientists of the twentieth century. Interweaving interviews with family members, scholars and colleagues with dramatic recreations featuring Academy Award nominated actor David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this program follows J. Robert Oppenheimer on a fascinating arc through the century, from the heady world of international physics to the top secret Manhattan Project, and finally to the dark days of the Red Scare and McCarthyism.

How do we hear music coming from a speaker? Join Yanick as he investigates how vibrations are made in a speaker and how sounds travels through different mediums to bring the sweet sounds of music to our ears.

Join Yanick in the Physics House to take a look at the physics behind everyday phenomena we encounter in our homes.

Magnetism has shaped our cosmos, and without it, Creation would simply disintegrate. We follow scientists trying to understand how this strange force works.

Black holes are some of the most extreme and least understood places in the universe, where the rules of physics collapse and time warps. We venture into the heart of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way to understand terrifying and fascinating secrets about parallel universes, wormholes, and space-time.

We're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?