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Sir Attenborough's First Life

In fifty years of broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in the landmark series, David Attenborough's First Life, he completes his journey by going back in time to the roots of the tree of life, in search of the very first animals.

Attenborough's journey begins in a forest near his childhood home in Leicester, where a fossil discovery transformed our understanding of the evolution of complex life. Travelling to the fog bound coastline of Newfoundland and the Australian outback, Attenborough unearths the earliest forms of animal life to exist on Earth.

David Attenborough's First Life

Thursday 31 March, 19:00, BBC Two

Sir David Attenborough

The Biggest Radio on Earth

Plans are advancing for the biggest radio on Earth, an array of up to 3000 radio telescopes across a continent. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have its central core in either South Africa or Western Australia, but its spiral arms of outlying giant dishes will reach out 3000 km across several countries.

Astronomer Dr Lucie Green hears how it could search for habitable planets, intelligent life and new-born galaxies. With 50 times the sensitivity of anything before, the rewards could be, quite literally, astronomical.

The Biggest Radio on Earth

Thursday 31 March, 21:00, BBC Radio 4

Satellites

The Joy of Stats

Professor Hans Rosling is an international internet legend. His eye-opening and funny online lectures have made him a superstar boffin. In this documentary, he takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power thay have to change our understanding of the world.

Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly explores their history, how they work mathematically and how they can be used in today's computer age to see the world as it really is, not just as we imagine it to be.

The Joy of Stats

Thursday 31 March, 23:20, BBC Two

Professor Hans Rosling

Everything and Nothing

Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.

The second part, Nothing, explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it.

Everything and Nothing

Thursday 31 March, 23:25, BBC Four

Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Latest Science news

'Potato Earth' shows us gravity

Goce geoid (Esa)

The European Space Agency releases an unusual illustration of Planet Earth which describes the variation in gravity across the surface of our world.

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Listen to Material World

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Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science in the news. Quentin talks to Professor Robin Grimes about the latest developments at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Space: Explore the Universe

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Scientists create tiny explosions with a powerful laser to study the properties of supernovae

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The Science of Love

Flushed cheeks and a racing heart beat are some of the outward signs of being in love. But inside the body there are definite chemical signs that cupid has fired his arrow. Find out how science can determine whether a relationship will last.

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