A Álgebra é generosa; ela frequentemente dá mais do que aquilo que lhe é pedido. (D'Alembert)
Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Desafios / Divulgação / Matemática
by AMMA · Published 14 de Outubro de 2018 · Last modified 11 de Novembro de 2018
…O QUE É UM RELÓGIO DE SOL?
Relógio de Sol é um instrumento que determina as divisões do dia através do movimento da sombra de um objecto, o gnómon, sobre o qual incidem os raios solares e que se projeta sobre uma base graduada, o mostrador ou quadrante.
Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Matemática
by AMMA · Published 1 de Junho de 2016 · Last modified 28 de Setembro de 2018
by AMMA · Published 4 de Maio de 2019 · Last modified 5 de Maio de 2019
In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving the next day, they discovered a 2,000 year-old Greek shipwreck. Among the ship’s cargo they hauled up was an unimpressive green lump of …
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Ben Garrod and Danielle George explore whether machines built to enhance our lives could become our greatest rivals. Ben meets one of the most humanlike robots in the world, Erica.
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Ben Garrod and Danielle George investigate whether robots will ever become our friends, if we should …
They run our factory assembly lines and make our coffee. But humanoid robots — machines with human-like capabilities — have long been the stuff of science fiction. Until now.
Fueled by an ambitious DARPA challenge, the race is on to design a robot that can replace humans in disaster …
Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the everyday sounds we hear and those that we normally cannot hear. Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a sonic odyssey through the sounds of the universe – to reveal what the physics of sound can tell us about the world and …
Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo
by AMMA · Published 1 de Maio de 2019 · Last modified 4 de Maio de 2019
Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves – the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It will start just before midnight of the 5th of June, and …
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.
Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black …
Leonardo da Vinci is, of course, best known as one of the world’s greatest artists. At his death in 1519, he was famous for such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But he was more than a painter, he was also a musician, writer, and showman. …
Scientists genuinely don’t know what most of our universe is made of. The atoms we’re made from only make up four per cent. The rest is dark matter and dark energy (for ‘dark’, read ‘don’t know’). The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been upgraded. When it’s switched on in …
by AMMA · Published 29 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 30 de Abril de 2019
by AMMA · Published 28 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 29 de Abril de 2019
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. A mysterious bump …
Nikola Tesla is considered one of the top 10 most fascinating people in history according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Long shrouded in mystery and intrigue, the secret life of Nikola Tesla is revealed in this fascinating feature film.
Tesla, born in 1856, is considered the father of our modern technological age …
by AMMA · Published 27 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 28 de Abril de 2019
New Voyage Communications in Washington, D.C., has developed a unique, in-depth television documentary about the life, times, and legacy of Nikola Tesla, American inventor and visionary. This program is the result of years of research, in which many new and unknown details of of Tesla’s life have been uncovered. …
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Regarded by many historians as an eccentric genius, Tesla gained international fame for his invention of a system of alternating current that made possible the distribution of electricity over vast …
by AMMA · Published 26 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 27 de Abril de 2019
Nós apresentamos uma “viagem” através da ciência dos materiais, processos, inovações e as pessoas por trás da pesquisa e desenvolvimentos em um filme documentário liderado pelo personagem.
Este filme é vencedor de 9th International Science Film Festival of Athens (Best Film Award) e de 6th Life Sciences Film Festival, Prague …
by AMMA · Published 25 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 26 de Abril de 2019
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does learn more.
In this film Horizon meets the scientists working on …
Imagine que era possível estar presente quando Edison ligou a primeira lâmpada, ou quando Benjamin Franklin recebeu o seu primeiro choque elétrico.
Pela primeira vez, um filme oferece ao público um lugar na primeira fila para assistir a um avanço científico significativo e inspirador à medida que ele acontece. A …
Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata – extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.
The film brings the past to life in vivid detail as we see how and why these masterpieces were built. Travelling …
Powers of Ten is one of the Eameses’ best-known films. Since it was produced in 1977, it has been seen by millions of people both nationally and internationally. As with A Communication Primer and 2n (a 2-minute Peep Show from the exhibition, Mathematica), in this film, Charles and Ray employed the …
Over the past century, scientists have made huge strides in understanding the mind-bending rules that govern the microworld of atoms and subatomic particles. But these rules, called quantum mechanics, contain one particularly bizarre, unexplained phenomenon: quantum entanglement.
Imagine two subatomic particles that mirror changes in each other instantaneously …
Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the Internet, and “big data,” the science of forecasting is flourishing. But why do some predictions succeed spectacularly while others fail abysmally? And how can we …
by AMMA · Published 22 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 23 de Abril de 2019
The story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science – Albert Einstein’s general relativity.
When Einstein presented his formidable theory in November 1915, it turned our understanding of gravity, space and time completely on its head. Over the last 100 years, general relativity has enabled us to …
Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of …
The centuries-old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is inspiring a scientific revolution. The rules of folding are at the heart of many natural phenomena, from how leaves blossom to how beetles fly. But now, engineers and designers are applying its principles to reshape the world around us—and …
by AMMA · Published 19 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 25 de Abril de 2019
Professor Brian Cox discovers the scientific inspirations of Royal Society Fellows including Sir David Attenborough and Dame Uta Frith.
People of Science delves into the Royal Society’s rich archive of science artefacts to tell the stories of extraordinary scientists, their science and how it is still influencing our understanding …
by AMMA · Published 18 de Abril de 2019 · Last modified 19 de Abril de 2019
…Young, beautiful, and born in an occupied country that for a time disappeared from the European map, Marie Curie cherished the innovative filed of science. Reserved yet ambitious, she rushed into the world of science hitherto the domain of men. How do scientists see her today? What made her unique?
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