…25th, 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: general relativity. The theory transformed our understanding of nature’s laws and the entire history of the cosmos, reaching back to the origin of…
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
…relationship with this simple molecule is everything and has been both positive and negative. Explore our interdependent relationship with water and the cosmos. episodes: 01. Pulse In Episode 1: pulse,…
Invisible Universe Revealed
…astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor of Hubble’s landmark anniversary, NOVA tells the remarkable story of the telescope that forever changed our understanding of the cosmos. But Hubble’s early…
A Day in the Life of Earth
…the biggest change of all is the one that few of us are even aware of. Our whole galaxy is moving through the cosmos at two million km per hour….
Human Universe
…the cosmos has deepened – we have even been able to piece together how the universe itself began. In a powerful conclusion, Brian pieces together this story of creation that…
Atom
…Key to the Cosmos The second in Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s three-part documentary about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He shows how, in our quest to understand…
A Visual Guide to the Universe
…mystery of the universe, thanks to instruments on scores of planetary probes and observatories that have been launched into space since the 1990s. episodes: 01. Probing the Cosmos from Space…
Richard Hammond Builds a Planet/Universe
…a two-mile high tower in the Californian desert. 02. Universe What does he need to construct the cosmos, and what happens if he gets it wrong? With eye-popping computer graphics,…
Building The Ultimate Telescope
…universe. Witness the history of ALMA, the remarkable product of a 20-year global effort, and see how it is already changing our basic understanding of the cosmos, and astronomy itself….
What Einstein Got Wrong
…is either expanding or contracting. Explore why general relativity is inconsistent with a static universe, and chart astronomer Edwin Hubble’s pioneering observations that prove we live in an expanding cosmos….
Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe
…scientists have discovered that 95% of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and…
Earth at the Crossroads, Understanding the Ecology of a Changing Planet
…cosmos at x-ray, gamma ray, infrared, and other wavelengths. 17. Food, Energy Flows, Biomagnification One effect of the food web is that nutrients and chemicals become concentrated in organisms at…