Tag: Series Horizon & NOVA
Cracking The Maya Code
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic scriptcarved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade...
Crater of Death
This is the profile of an extraterrestrial mass murderer: one whose existence was denied by scientific orthodoxy for nearly two decadesbut has now been...
Derek Tastes of Earwax Synaesthesia
This documentary looks at the fact that perhaps one in every hundred people experiences a blending of the senses. Imagine if every time you...
DNA: Secret of Photo 51
On April 25,1953, the science journal Nature announced that James Watson and Francis Crick had discovered the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule...
Fermat’s Last Theorem
This documentary tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. A quiet English mathematicianhe was drawn into maths by Fermat's puzzle, but at...
Hitler’s Bomb
In December 1938in Berlin, a simple chemical experiment showed for the first time that the atom can be split, releasing immense power. Within months,...
Magnetic Storm
There's a region of our planet that no human being has ever visited. No one has ever seen this placeyet what happens here affects...
Episode 1 The Conquest Of Cold
Air-conditioningrefrigeration, and superconductivity are just some of the ways technology has put cold to use. But what is cold, how do you achieve it,...
Parallel Universes
For years parallel universes were a staple of the Twilight Zone. Science fiction writers loved to speculate on the possible other universes which might...
Episode 2 The Race for Absolute Zero
Air-conditioningrefrigeration, and superconductivity are just some of the ways technology has put cold to use. But what is cold, how do you achieve it,...