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26 Episodes 2011 - 2015
Episode 1
How can a supercomputer can help researchers to a better understanding of the poliovirus at an atomic level? This has implications for understanding and eradicating deadly diseases worldwide.
Episode 2
Is there anyone out there? Does the popular movie quote 'ET phone home' have any substance? Astronomers have been pointing their radio telescopes at the skies for decades trying to pick up alien signals.
Episode 3
In the western world there's an epidemic of allergies. Could it be that our lifestyles are too clean? And that we're not exposing ourselves to bugs that help build our immune systems? Is there bacteria that is good for us?
Episode 4
Cuneiform documents in clay cover everything from political affairs to economic practices, from 3400BC right up to the time of Christ.
Episode 5
Good to know as you travel to the Antipodes / Australia has the most venomous snakes and spiders in the world. But, if you are bitten, can you rely on anti/venom? Dr Graham Phillips investigates the effectiveness of anti/venom.
Episode 6
A short video on this phenomenon of nature, particularly evident in deep ocean animals.
Episode 7
There is no doubt that cardiac implants or stents save lives. They unblock arteries to prevent heart attacks.
Episode 8
This special report looks at the domino effect of environmental and atmospheric factors that drive the globe to wetter, hotter, drier and colder extremes.
Episode 9
By building see/through flowers, researchers at the University of Connecticut have captured high/speed, high/magnification images of the remarkable tongue of the Hummingbird.
Episode 10
It's amazing to think that in the 1900s a mere tenth of the world's population lived and worked in cities.
Episode 11
It seems that the bee population crisis is intricately tied to the way we have changed our planet.
Episode 12
Meet Dr Jane Goodall DBE, world/renowned primatologist, humanitarian, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace.
Episode 13
Performance/enhancing drugs aren't limited to just sport and increasing your physical prowess.
Episode 14
By investigating the tell/tale signs of earthquakes and tsunamis written into the landscape over the last thousand years, Japanese scientists are rewriting the rule books for disaster prevention in the Pacific.
Episode 15
Thousands of chemicals are used in everyday products; in our water, our food and in the air we breathe.
Episode 16
Think spiders aren't beautiful? Then think again. The colorful and beautiful jumping Peacock Spider, native to Australia, will change your mind.
Episode 17
Each year, over 2000 people apply for jobs in Antarctica, but few are successful. What are the physical and psychological attributes required to work in the most remote location on Earth?
Episode 18
What is memory? How do our memories change from childhood to adulthood? How we can build up greater brain reserves to power our mind into old age? Brain epigenetics, how the expression of our DNA can be changed by our experiences
Episode 19
The promise of quantum computers is that what would otherwise take a billion years to calculate, could be done in a few seconds.
Episode 20
Do sharks have friends? Watch and see if there is actually anything to study when we look at the "social behavior" of sharks off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Episode 21
In a family reunion like no other, astronomers reunite our sun with her long lost sibling.
Episode 22
Dr Graham Phillips investigates new technology that is able to convert more than 40 per cent of the sun's light into electricity.
Episode 23
Fifty meters beneath the teeming mega/city of Tokyo is an underworld river system / 6.
Episode 24
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just sit and watch a movie about the universe and see how everything unfolded?
Episode 25
Take a look at the Voyager unmanned space probes launched in the 1970's // and where they are now after 36 years of travel. Voyager I is the furthest traveled man made object in space.
Episode 26
Titanium implants are a favorite among surgeons. They're light, durable and strong and readily accepted by the human body.