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The Infinite Monkey Cage

Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series of the award-winning science/comedy show, as they take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science.

Guest appearances later in the series will include Marcus Brigstocke, Al Murray, Andy Hamilton and comic book legend Alan Moore.

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Can you compete under pressure?

Help investigate the psychology of pressure and get your performance analysed by Michael Johnson.

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Discover the science behind the experiment

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The night sky in spring and summer

Get to know the spring and summer night sky in the northern hemisphere with stargazing tips from Sir Patrick Moore and other astronomy experts.

Stargazing for beginners

How to see the milky way

Spring evening sky highlights

Messier 4 (M4), the nearest globular star cluster to Earth

Dark energy

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Astronomers were amazed when they discovered that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. They proposed that some unknown process was causing the acceleration, and they named it dark energy.

BRAINSMART

A brain

Meet your brain

Your brain is the supercomputer that generates all your thoughts, memories, dreams, emotions and ideas. Take a trip inside the human brain, and see what happens when it learns something new.

Your astronomy images

Visit the BBC Stargazing LIVE flickr group

Bang Goes the Theory

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It's hard to believe, but the first wireless telephone call was made in 1880. Dr Yan explains how Alexander Graham Bell encoded sound into a shimmering beam of light.

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Claudia Hammond

All in the Mind

Claudia Hammond presents the programme exploring the limits and potential of the human mind.

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'Slow' progress on Earth problems

Ban Ki-moon

The UN sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro has formally opened with a warning from UN head Ban Ki-moon that progress on the issue is too slow.

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