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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 3: The Moth and the Flame

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The Moth and the Flame

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Episode 3: The Moth and the Flame

BBC One - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox, The Moth and the Flame

Professor Brian Cox investigates the ingredients which are the building blocks of life.

Professor Brian Cox reveals how Earth's beauty is created by just a handful of forces. In this episode, he investigates the building blocks of life.

Professor Brian Cox shows how Earth's basic ingredients, like the pure sulphur mined in the heart of a deadly volcano in Indonesia, have become the building blocks of life. Hidden deep in a cave in the Dominican Republic lies a magical world created by the same property of water that makes it essential to life. Clinging to a precipitous dam wall in Italy, baby mountain goats seek out Earth's chemical elements essential to their survival. In the middle of the night in a bay off Japan, Brian explains how the dazzling display of thousands of glowing squid shows how life has taken Earth's chemistry and turned it into the chemistry of life.

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

Professor Brian Cox reveals how Earth's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.

Professor Brian Cox combines some of the most spectacular sights on Earth with our deepest understanding of the universe to reveal how the planet's beauty is created by just a handful of forces.

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