Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes.
Human Nature
NOVA INVESTIGATES THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY GENE-EDITING TECHNOLOGY
Mysteries of Sleep
Why do we sleep? And what does sleep have to do with memory, trauma, and our emotions?
Chasing Coral
Chasing Coral is a 2017 documentary film about a team of divers, scientists and photographers around the world who document the disappearance of coral reefs.[
Three Identical Strangers
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they’re triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Following the wildly successful “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host to translate more revelations of science into a lavish transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. The show reveals previously uncharted realms, including lost worlds, worlds yet to come, and the worlds that humans may one day inhabit. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, whose iconic docuseries “Cosmos” provided inspiration for this series, serves as executive producer alongside Seth MacFarlane.
Secrets of Skin
Featuring groundbreaking new science, experiments and leading scientists from a variety of disciplines, the series unravels the natural history of the body’s largest organ. Skin is an incredible, multi-function organ that science is still learning so much about. It has adapted to allow animals to conquer virtually every habitat on the planet.
A User’s Guide to Cheating Death
Favorite trailer magnet YEAR: 2017-2018 | LENGTH: 2 seasons 12 episodes (47 minutes each) | SOURCE: IMDB description: The anti-aging industry…
Size Matters
Why are insects small and planets big? Why is Earth not the size of Jupiter, or why aren’t people the size of mice?
Finding Life in Outer Space
Over billions of years, planet Earth has become home to an amazing interdependent ecosystem, containing a dizzying variety of animals and plants. But how did life here begin?
Perfect Child Mummies
She’s considered to be one of the best-preserved mummies in the world, a 500-year-old Inca girl known as “The Maiden.” Her incredible lifelike appearance is matched only by the mysteries surrounding her. Who was she? What was she doing at the peak of the world’s tallest active volcano, where her body was found? How exactly did she die? Take part in a virtual autopsy, as we use cutting edge equipment and techniques to unravel the details about her life, the cause of her unnatural death, and the dark secrets about her lost civilization.
Can Science Make Me Perfect?
Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on an audacious scientific stunt – to rebuild her own body from scratch, editing out errors left behind by evolution; to create the perfect body. With the help of one of the world’s best virtual sculptors, Scott Eaton, and top SFX model maker Sangeet Prabhaker, Alice creates a life-size model of the perfect human body, to be revealed in front of 150 people at London’s Science Museum.