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Prof Brian Cox explains the science at the heart of the universe.

Suitable for teaching Key Stage 3 and National 4.

How are chemical elements made? video

Professor Brian Cox demonstrates how the chemical elements are made in the death throes of a dying star.

How are chemical elements made?

Time and entropy. video

Brian Cox explains the concept of entropy and the arrow of time

Time and entropy

Death of the Sun and stars. video

Professor Brian Cox explains the process that causes all stars, including eventually our own sun, to die.

Death of the Sun and stars

What happens if there鈥檚 no gravity? video

Professor Brian Cox experiences what a world without gravity would be like.

What happens if there鈥檚 no gravity?

Evidence of the Big Bang. video

Professor Brian Cox explains how evidence for the Big Bang can be found by analysing the colour of starlight.

Evidence of the Big Bang

How did complex life begin? video

Professor Brian Cox visits the Burgess Shale fossil field in the Canadian Rockies, to see evidence of an explosion in life on Earth during the Cambrian period 540 million years ago.

How did complex life begin?

Gravity on different worlds. video

Professor Brian Cox simulates the strength of gravity on other planets using a centrifuge in Holland.

Gravity on different worlds

Light and looking back in time. video

Professor Brian Cox explains why light from stars and galaxies takes time to travel to Earth.

Light and looking back in time

Measuring the speed of light. video

Professor Brian Cox explains how scientists first measured the speed of light.

Measuring the speed of light

The Oldest Light in the Universe. video

Professor Brian Cox is able to witness the oldest light in the Universe, by listening to its stretched wavelengths through a radio.

The Oldest Light in the Universe

What are Black Holes? video

Professor Brian Cox explains what black holes are, and how we know about them despite the fact that they鈥檙e invisible.

What are Black Holes?