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,...