…and industry insiders, Shadow World unravels a number of the world’s largest and most corrupt arms deals. It illustrates how the global arms trade operates in a parallel legal universe,…
What is One Degree
…in the universe, and to a lab where he experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics – a place where super-cooled liquids simply pass through solid glass. Plus,…
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle
…a few doubts remain. NOVA follows a ground-breaking experiment in the Canary Islands to use quasars at opposite ends of the universe to once and for all settle remaining questions….
National Geographic Polar Explorations
…been covered with jungles. Investigate the unusual geologic processes occurring in Antarctica and discover what features may be buried under all that ice. 15. Antarctica’s Window on the Universe Above…
Faster Than the Speed of Light?
…talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. So what is going on? Has Einstein’s famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we…
Seven Ages of Starlight
…our own understanding of the universe. Once we thought the sun and stars were gods and giants. Now we know, in a way, our instincts were right. The stars do…
Dancing in the Dark: The End of Physics?
Favorite trailer magnet YEAR: 2015 | LENGTH: 1 part (60 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC description: Scientists genuinely don’t know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we’re…
Big Bang Machine
…discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson, thought to be responsible for giving all the stuff in the universe its…
Journey to an Alien Moon
…and quests to the edge of our planet, well go on a journey to and alien moon called Europa. To answer the basic question: Are we alone in the universe?…
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
…follows Mark, better known as E, the lead singer of the rock band EELS, across the country as he attempts to understand the fantastic possibility of parallel universes and unravel…
Our Night Sky
…remarkable discoveries about the nature of the universe. episodes: 01. The Constellations and Their Stars Begin your study of the night sky by investigating the origin of the constellations—the traditional…
What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?
…Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to…