Aiming for a Target

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Aiming for a Target Genius by Stephen Hawking

Premiered May 31, 2016

Aiming for a Target

Molecules adapt to survive their environment and are passed on to the next generation.

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Three volunteers set out to find an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.

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What Are We?

Molecules adapt to survive their environment and are passed on to the next generation.

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Aiming for a Target

An experiment with magnets demonstrates how energy allows atoms to be created.

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How Atoms Are Created in the Magnet Experiment

Humans are made of tiny machines, which must all work together to thrive.

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Stephen Hawking’s Machine of Life

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Genius by Stephen Hawking

In Genius by Stephen Hawking, Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.