Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this gripping documentary, physicist Brian Cox explores humanity's ultimate engineering quest: building a self-sustaining artificial star on Earth through nuclear fusion. Tracing the scientific journey from Isaac Newton’s discovery of the light spectrum and Einstein’s famous equation to the destructive dawn of the hydrogen bomb at the Trinity site, the film examines how modern scientists are trying to safely harness nature's ultimate power source.

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