Witness the ingenuity and bravery of the pioneers who developed, built, and even risked their lives testing the ejection seat.
Track the evolution of the space suit, from the first pressure suit of the 1930s to outfits that will take man to Mars.
2019 • Physics
Meet the innovators who developed newer, safer ways to fall from the sky and those whose lives were saved by them
2019 • Physics
Witness the ingenuity and bravery of the pioneers who developed, built, and even risked their lives testing the ejection seat.
2019 • Physics
From the first gas turbine to tomorrow's hypersonic jet engines, see the evolution of the machine that is changing the world.
2019 • Physics
We are so used to some things that we stopped wondering about them. Like light. What is light? Some kind of wavy thing, right? Kind of.
In a Nutshell • 2015 • Physics
Exploring the universe on a ship that can boldly go where no man has gone before isn't just a sci fi dream. Dr Michio Kaku reveals how we really could one day build a warp drive and set out on our own star trek.
S1E1 • Physics of the Impossible • 2009 • Physics
Meet the innovators who developed newer, safer ways to fall from the sky and those whose lives were saved by them
2/4 • Survival in the Skies • 2019 • Physics
One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the early 21st century is surely the Higgs boson, but the boson and the Higgs Field that allows for that magic particle are extremely difficult to grasp. Don Lincoln outlines an analogy (originally conceived by David Miller) that all of us can appreciate, starring a large dinner party, a raucous group of physicists, and Peter Higgs himself.
Scientists genuinely don't know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we're made from only make up four per cent. The rest is dark matter and dark energy (for 'dark', read 'don't know'). The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been upgraded. When it's switched on in March 2015, its collisions will have twice the energy they did before. The hope is that scientists will discover the identity of dark matter in the debris. The stakes are high - because if dark matter fails to show itself, it might mean that physics itself needs a rethink.
Materials Science is set to define the next century of human history, and it promises to revolutionize every aspect of our lives. This film takes us on a journey where we meet the pioneers of Materials Science and see the extraordinary discoveries that are transforming the world around us.
2015 • Physics