How Did Life Begin?
What are the origins of life? How did things go from non-living to living? From something that could not reproduce to something that could? One person who has exhaustively investigated this subject is paleontologist Andrew Knoll, a professor of biology at Harvard and author of Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Life. In this wide-ranging interview, Knoll explains, among other compelling ideas, why higher organisms like us are icing on the cake of life, how deeply living things and our planet are intertwined, and why it’s so devilishly difficult to figure out how life got started.
The Universe – Unexplained Mysteries
Comparing the reality of space travel to science fiction, revealing the truth behind common myths and misconceptions about the universe and exploring the mysteries that remain unsolved. Narrated by Erik Thompson
Secret Life Of Your Body Clock
Why are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o’clock in the morning or crash your car on the motorway at two o’clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day really save your life? And have you ever wondered why teenagers will not get out of bed in the morning?
The answers to these questions lie in the secret world of the biological clock.
Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner.
Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find’. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow’ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies – it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe.
Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?
The Universe: Jupiter the giant planet
We journey half a billion miles from the earth’s surface to a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating around a powerful planet of gas.
Its flowing colors and spots hold strange beauty, but contain violent storms and jet streams.
Could this big, bright ball of turbulent weather have been the star of Bethlehem?
Could one of its moons harbor life beneath its icy crust?
Jupiter, the giant planet, is the king of many questions concerning our solar system and could possibly hold the answers.