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"There's no place like home" Part 3 - Exoplanets

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Ruth Angus talks about the search for life outside our solar system. In our own solar system, we have rocky planets towards the centre and gas giant planets further out.
Earth sits in the ‘habitable zone’, where it’s the right distance away from the star to have liquid water on its surface - it’s not too hot and not too cold. But as we find more solar systems and planets, we are starting to discover that our own home is far from normal.

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"There's no place like home" Part 2 - The People of the British Isles

Bruce Winney describes the influx of humans to the British Isles, including the Romans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings. By comparing and contrasting the genetic make-up of patients, researchers can explore how genetics can influence disease.
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"Hidden Worlds" Part 1 - Parallel Worlds

Dr David Wallace discusses the concept of the multiverse – a physical reality that contains lots of universes, each of which inhabited by different versions of ourselves.
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Series
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Ruth Angus
Keywords
research
culture
solar system
gas giant
Mercury
venus
earth
mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Kepler
Cygnus
life
habitable
water
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 15/12/2014
Duration: 00:09:32

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