Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the important concepts of energy and information
Energy In attempting to answer the question of what is energy, Jim Al-Khalili investigates a strange set of laws that link together everything from engines to humans to stars.
Information Investigating the concept of information, Jim Al-Khalili learns that it is not just about human communication, it is woven very profoundly into the fabric of reality.
Jim Al-Khalili uncovers the story of Sellafield. He encounters some of the most dangerous substances on earth, reveals the nature of radiation and even attempts to split the atom.
Calder Hall, the world’s first full-scale atomic power station, is here shown nearing completion. In the background are the chimneys and works of the plutonium factory of Windscale (now Sellafield).
Lying on the remote north west coast of England is one of the most secret places in the country – Sellafield, the most controversial nuclear facility in Britain. Now, Sellafield are letting nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili and the television cameras in to discover the real story.
Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe, through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world
The Beginning Jim Al-Khalili tackles the greatest question in science – how the universe began. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the mystery of science’s creation story.
The End Jim Al-Khalili carries us into the future to try to discover how the universe will end – with a bang or a whimper? He reveals a universe far stranger than anyone imagined.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. As well sculpting our universe, gravity also affects our weight, height and even the rate at which we age.
Physics professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the amazing science of gravity. A fundamental force of nature, gravity shapes our entire universe, sculpting galaxies and warping space and time. But gravity’s strange powers, discovered by Albert Einstein, also affect our daily lives in the most unexpected ways. As Jim tells the story of gravity, it challenges his own understanding of the nature of reality.
The science of gravity includes the greatest advances in physics, and Jim recreates groundbreaking experiments in gravity … Ler mais
Documentary. Jim Al-Khalili takes a look at how we've created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why this shouldn't spook us.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind – and why we shouldn’t let this spook us.
He reveals the story of the pursuit of AI, the emergence of machine learning and the recent breakthroughs brought about by artificial neural networks. He shows how AI is not only changing our world but also challenging our very ideas of intelligence and consciousness.
Along the way, we’ll investigate spam filters, … Ler mais
Exploration of the word of our age - data - with mathematician Hannah Fry. What is data? How is it stored, shared, made sense of? And what does data reveal about us and the world?
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.
For Hannah, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. Hannah sees data as the essential bridge between … Ler mais
Documentary exploring the human quest for certainty and sound reasoning itself. Dave Cliff asks just how logical we really are and whether humans can stay ahead of computers.
A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning The Joy of Stats and its sequel Tails You Win – The Science of Chance, this film takes viewers on a new rollercoaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology – all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic.
Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, … Ler mais
A lively six-part survey of mathematics that covers such topics as dimensions, odds, how math affects sports, and how educators and researchers are coming up with new ways to make math 'make sense'
From the smallest micro organism to the planets and the stars, life can be a wondrous journey of discovery where almost everywhere and everything is affected by numbers. Enter the exciting world of the Science of Mathematics with our host Danny Glover.
Life by the Numbers is the overall title for a series of TV programs on mathematics produced by WQED Pittsburgh with support from a number of foundations and corporations. The first program in the series was shown … Ler mais
“The universe is almost like a huge magic trick,” says Martin Gardner. Many world-renowned scientists, mathematicians and magicians agree.
Featured guests who have been influenced by Gardner include: magicians Max Maven and Michael Weber; mathematician and legendary computer hacker Bill Gosper; Harvard professor and card wizard Persi Diaconnis; renowned math genius John Horton Conway of Princeton; and Ron Graham, acrobat, juggler and chief scientist for AT&T Research.
Sir Roger Penrose takes a personal journey through artist MC Escher's work
World-leading cosmologist Professor Sir Roger Penrose is more than just a fan of MC Escher‘s mind-bending art. During the course of a long creative collaboration, the British mathematician and the Dutch artist exchanged ideas and inspirations. Some of Escher’s most iconic images have their origin in Penrose’s mathematical sketches – while the artist’s work has served as a starting point for the professor’s own explorations of new scientific ideas. To coincide with the first ever Escher retrospective in the … Ler mais
An inquiry around the mystery behind the missing hole in M. C. Escher "Print Gallery"
M. C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery, and found himself trapped by an impossible barrier. His uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art, for both artists and scientists.
Half a century later, mathematician Hendrik Lenstra took everyone by surprise by drawing a fantastic bridge between the intuition of the artist and his own, and completed Escher’s work mathematically.
Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?
In this new series, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. It underpins so much of our modern world that it’s hard to imagine life without its technological advances, but where exactly does maths come from? Is it invented like a language or is it something discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?
It’s a question that some of the most eminent mathematical minds have been wrestling with. Dr Eleanor Knox from King’s College London believes … Ler mais
Um filme documentário de Giuseppe Mussardo, Luisa Bonolis, Daniele Trani e Diego Cenetiempo
Em Jhang, uma pequena cidade no Punjab (Paquistão), uma noite um homem sonhou que o seu filho estava a subir uma árvore, tão alto que logo ele pareceu desaparecer no céu azul. O nome da criança era Abdus Salam, que significa “Servo da Paz”, que iria ganhar em 1979 o Prémio Nobel de Física pelos seus avanços inovadores na nossa compreensão das leis da Natureza [O Prémio Nobel de Física 1979 foi concedido em conjunto a Sheldon Lee … Ler mais
Um filme documentário de Giuseppe Mussardo e Enrico Agapito
Na manhã do 1.º de agosto de 1930, em Bombaim, o cais da P&O – Linhas Peninsular e Oriental – estava totalmente lotado e havia a confusão habitual de qualquer partida: carregadores transportavam bagagens e grandes caixas, os oficiais estavam ocupados dando as últimas ordens e marinheiros subiam e desciam dos conveses entre cordas e ovéns. Andavam por ali estrangeiros olhando com admiração o Portal da Índia, considerado a quinta-essência da Índia colonial, um monumento erguido pela Inglaterra … Ler mais
O grande acelerador de partículas LHC (Large Hadron Collider ou Grande Colisionador de Hadrões) é uma das experiências científicas mais avançadas, construído para “esmagar” ...
Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero - James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only inspired Einstein, ...
Imagine que era possível estar presente quando Edison ligou a primeira lâmpada, ou quando Benjamin Franklin recebeu o seu primeiro choque elétrico.Pela primeira vez, ...
Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the world’s most familiar and influential scientific diagrams.Vitruvian Man1/6. Exploring the ...
No TED2010, o matemático Benoit Mandelbrot desenvolve um tema que discutiu primeiramento no TED em 1984 -- a complexidade extrema da rugosidade, e o ...
