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When it was discovered, electricity was seen as a magical power that  could slay the living, revive the dead, and bend the laws of nature.

Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity

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Part science, part philosophy and history, this film offers a gripping exploration of cutting-edge science with its acclaimed host, Jim Al-Khalili.

Everything and Nothing: The Science of Empty Space

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Will the machines built to enhance our lives one day become our greatest rivals? Meet the trailblasing machines of the world’s leading robot-makers.

Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots

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Extreme cyclones, explosive volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and endless heat waves. Is it possible for people in affected areas to prepare for them?

The Disaster Diaries

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What happens when a series of huge waves set in motion by Earth's sub-surface energy rises up to crush everything in their path? How can we be ready?

Tsunami: Facing The Global Threat

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Eruptions so vast they changed our planet's history. Climate collapse. Mass extinction. These are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes.

Earth's Most Destructive SuperVolcanoes

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How did the universe come to be? How did life start on Earth? How does it sustain itself? What is the nature of space and time? How will it all end?

Jim Al-Khalili's Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything

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Discover upcoming startups, entrepreneurs from across the globe, and wow-factor new technologies that are transforming our planet for the better.

TechTalk

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Short videos covering a wide range of space science stories with stunning images of Earth and its climate to planets and the universe at large.  

4K Space Odyssey

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Richard test-drives unusual devices that make aspects of life easier. He shows how our daily lives can be spiced up with awe-inspiring gadgetry.

Gadget Man with Richard Ayoade

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The average person is capable of remembering four things at a time. Some people can remember 400! Explore the incredible world of competitive memory.

Total Recall: How to Remember Everything

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The Antarctic seabed is a mystery; we know more about Mars's surface. Here, a team of research scientists face ferocious storms, ice, and tragedy.

Expedition Antarctica

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Astronomers are forging giant new telescopes, while marshaling vast computational power, in a far-reaching effort to study the deep universe.

Seeing the Beginning of Time

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Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the second pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the moon. The rocks they picked up would define the mission's legacy.

The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12

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How far do the stars stretch into space? We've built giant telescopes to cast our gaze deep into the universe and reconstruct the course of history.

Is the Universe Infinite?

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Thinking about the universe is humanity's oldest shared intellectual experience. Take a stunning voyage beyond our solar system, into the starfields.

From Earth to the Universe

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Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction. Worse than a killer asteroid, or nuclear war, they are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes.

Super Volcanoes

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With visualizations based on satellites and supercomputer simulations, we follow a trail of energy that flows from the Sun to our Earth.

Dynamic Earth

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the influence of the quantum world, such as how quantum vibrations affect how things smell.

Secrets of Quantum Physics

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Bubbles shape animal behaviors and change the way drinks taste. Their unique properties inform futuristic design and innovative medical treatments.

The Science of Bubbles

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Witness enhanced footage of the historic Apollo missions. These astronauts revolutionized our understanding of the solar system, Earth, and life.

Apollo's New Moon

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This eye-opening documentary tracks the perilous path our planet took in its early years. It asks: How did Earth become a living planet? 

Birth of Planet Earth

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Next-generation rocket technology, now in development, is fueling the dream of traveling across the void by exploiting the physics of extreme speed.

Faster Than Light: The Dream of Interstellar Flight

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As digital technologies and electrical grids have spread around the globe, solar storms now threaten on the scale of hurricanes Katrina and Harvey.

Solar Superstorms

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The James Webb Space Telescope leads a massive search for an extraordinary chain of events that launched our universe at the brink of the cosmic dawn.

Search for the Cosmic Dawn: The James Webb Space Telescope

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The hero of the American space program, the first living being to be sent into space was a chimpanzee named Ham, born in Africa and trained in secret.

Ham, The First Astrochimp

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The Hubble Space Telescope is part of a wide effort to probe the origins of life, how stars live and die, and the influence of black holes.

The Age of Hubble

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Astronauts have been observing our planet in astonishing detail, while capturing its beauty in one of the greatest photographic collections ever.

Science

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