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A history of the natural world in six objects The Natural History Museum has one of the world's greatest collections, capturing the earth's huge biodiversity. Ahead of a major new BBC TV series - Museum of Life - six members of their world-class team of 300 scientists each pick a treasure [url=http:/...

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GamesMaster may return Starring Dominic Diamond, GamesMaster was a bizarre, tongue-in-cheek magazine show containing reviews, competitions, and the astronomer Patrick Moore. It's difficult to know why GamesMaster succeeded where others failed, but the series starring the excellent but i...

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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 phe...

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Astronomer Scott Gaudi talks about the Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN) exoplanet finding project. Listen: Windows Media | MP3 Running Time: 00:28:52 MicroFUN is an informal consortium of observers dedicated to photometric monitoring of interesting microlensing events in the Gal...

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Documentary about comets. Although believed to be gods by many ancient civilisations, who saw them as bringers of life or harbingers of doom, to Isaac Newton they were the key to unlocking the secrets of gravity. Hundreds of years later, a new breed of space mission can show what comets are really mad...

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How Earth Made Us Click to Play | View Details Professor Iain Stewart examines how some of the major natural events of the past 10,000 years have shaped the course of human history. Each episode focused on a different force of nature, including storms, floods and fires. The final programme asked whet...

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Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Ol...

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"X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight" by Dennis R. Jenkins The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic fl...

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NASA is making sound clips available for news producers to download from the agency's Web site. The NASA Audio File page has sound clips with NASA scientists, researchers, astronauts, and officials supporting timely news releases about everything from the latest discoveries in space to climate...

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You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean via the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (PALAOA). Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et a...

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An intresting new website: "Radio Astronomy is an art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves. The project is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a, and radio telescopes located throughout the world. To...

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Objects that tell us about the history of the world Five out of the ten objects chosen to tell a history of Oxfordshire are from Oxford University museums. In the project led by the BBC, the county's curators selected objects which 'tell us about Oxfordshire history and its place in the world'. The Ash...

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Leading physicists attempt to answer the question: "What are black holes made of?" Those questioned include Professors Andrew Strominger, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss, Max Tegmark, Ramesh Narayan and Douglas Leonard. Horizon: Who is afraid of a big black hole was on BBC Two at 21:00 B...

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Astronomy's Serendipitous Side You've heard the saying "thank your lucky stars." Well, in the January 1st issue of Science, astronomer Kenneth Lang of Tufts University says it's not the stars that are lucky, but the folks who study them. Because some of the biggest discoveries about ou...

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Avatar smashes box office record Sci-fi blockbuster Avatar becomes the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) in world ticket sales. Read more AVATAR - Official Launch Trailer (HD) Click to Play | View Details

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	Museum of Life (Preview) A history of the natural world in six objects The Natural History Museum has one of the world's greatest collections, capturing the earth's huge biodiversity. Ahead of a major new BBC TV series - Museum of Life - six members of their world-class team of 300 scientists each pick a treasure [url=http:/...	Blobrana	0	Mar 14 11:21 2010 by Blobrana
	GamesMaster (Preview) GamesMaster may return Starring Dominic Diamond, GamesMaster was a bizarre, tongue-in-cheek magazine show containing reviews, competitions, and the astronomer Patrick Moore. It's difficult to know why GamesMaster succeeded where others failed, but the series starring the excellent but i...	Blobrana	0	Mar 11 19:25 2010 by Blobrana
	The Universe (Preview) 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 phe...	Blobrana	0	Mar 9 21:07 2010 by Blobrana
	Microlensing Follow-Up Network (Preview) Astronomer Scott Gaudi talks about the Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN) exoplanet finding project. Listen: Windows Media \| MP3 Running Time: 00:28:52 MicroFUN is an informal consortium of observers dedicated to photometric monitoring of interesting microlensing events in the Gal...	Blobrana	0	Mar 1 16:17 2010 by Blobrana
	A Comet's Tale Comet (Preview) Documentary about comets. Although believed to be gods by many ancient civilisations, who saw them as bringers of life or harbingers of doom, to Isaac Newton they were the key to unlocking the secrets of gravity. Hundreds of years later, a new breed of space mission can show what comets are really mad...	Blobrana	0	Feb 24 16:45 2010 by Blobrana
	How the Earth Made Us (Preview) How Earth Made Us Click to Play \| View Details Professor Iain Stewart examines how some of the major natural events of the past 10,000 years have shaped the course of human history. Each episode focused on a different force of nature, including storms, floods and fires. The final programme asked whet...	Blobrana	0	Feb 23 21:17 2010 by Blobrana
	Horizon: To Infinity and Beyond (Preview) Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Ol...	Blobrana	0	Feb 10 21:04 2010 by Blobrana
	eBooks (Preview) "X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight" by Dennis R. Jenkins The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic fl...	Blobrana	0	Jan 31 13:43 2010 by Blobrana
	NASA sound clips Sound (Preview) NASA is making sound clips available for news producers to download from the agency's Web site. The NASA Audio File page has sound clips with NASA scientists, researchers, astronauts, and officials supporting timely news releases about everything from the latest discoveries in space to climate...	Blobrana	1	Jan 30 13:13 2010 by Blobrana
	PALAOA Antarctic (Preview) You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean via the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (PALAOA). Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et a...	Blobrana	0	Jan 25 15:18 2010 by Blobrana
	Radio Astronomy Earthquake Observatory Radio (Preview) An intresting new website: "Radio Astronomy is an art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves. The project is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a, and radio telescopes located throughout the world. To...	Blobrana	4	Jan 22 03:15 2010 by Blobrana
	A History of the World (Preview) Objects that tell us about the history of the world Five out of the ten objects chosen to tell a history of Oxfordshire are from Oxford University museums. In the project led by the BBC, the county's curators selected objects which 'tell us about Oxfordshire history and its place in the world'. The Ash...	Blobrana	0	Jan 20 11:42 2010 by Blobrana
	Who is afraid of a big black hole blackholes (Preview) Leading physicists attempt to answer the question: "What are black holes made of?" Those questioned include Professors Andrew Strominger, Michio Kaku, Lawrence Krauss, Max Tegmark, Ramesh Narayan and Douglas Leonard. Horizon: Who is afraid of a big black hole was on BBC Two at 21:00 B...	Blobrana	4	Jan 12 16:44 2010 by Blobrana
	Serendipitous discovery (Preview) Astronomy's Serendipitous Side You've heard the saying "thank your lucky stars." Well, in the January 1st issue of Science, astronomer Kenneth Lang of Tufts University says it's not the stars that are lucky, but the folks who study them. Because some of the biggest discoveries about ou...	Blobrana	0	Jan 7 14:20 2010 by Blobrana
	Avatar Film (Preview) Avatar smashes box office record Sci-fi blockbuster Avatar becomes the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) in world ticket sales. Read more AVATAR - Official Launch Trailer (HD) Click to Play \| View Details	Blobrana	0	Jan 3 22:29 2010 by Blobrana
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