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It is broadcast on PBS in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries. [1] The program has won many major television awards. [2] Nova often includes interviews with scientists doing research in the subject areas covered and occasionally includes footage of a particular discovery. Some episodes have focused on the history of science.
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes is the third non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife. [1] [2] [3] The book was initially published on January 30, 2007 by Viking.
Re-narrated Horizon episode, first aired in the UK in 1972. [4]We give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood wasp laying its eggs inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.
The notion that quantum physics must be the underlying mechanism for consciousness first emerged in the 1990s, when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, Ph.D., and anesthesiologist Stuart ...
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information is a popular science book by Vlatko Vedral published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Vedral examines information theory and proposes information as the most fundamental building block of reality. He argues what a useful framework this is for viewing all natural and physical phenomena.
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA-winning [3] television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four, in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks with physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett—about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
PBS and The Learning Channel began broadcasting The Mechanical Universe in September 1985. [30] During the fall of 1986, roughly 100 PBS stations carried The Mechanical Universe , and by the fall of 1987, over 600 higher-education institutions had purchased it or licensed the episodes for use. [ 2 ]
The Universe is an American documentary television series that features computer-generated imagery and computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe plus interviews with experts who study in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics. The program was produced by Flight 33 Productions and Workaholic Productions.