About Wonders Of Life

What is life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? Professor Brian Cox investigates.

Brian Cox in Wonders of Life

3.7 billion years ago in an obscure part of an unexceptional corner of the universe something incredible happened, and Professor Brian Cox is on a global mission to reveal how some fundamental laws of science gave birth to something so complex.

Prof Brian Cox uses his physics background to interrogate life on earth

Prof Brian Cox uses his physics background to interrogate life on earth

Through an incalculably unlikely set of circumstances, these fundamental laws had previously built stars, supernovae and planets contrived to create a life. That fragile flame of life still burns inside everyone and everything that lives on our planet – a single unbroken chain that connects us not just to every other life, but to the laws of nature that created and nurtured it.

In this beautiful and definitive series we discover how a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the universe.