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Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded. Show more
Famed for their ability to inflict Armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing how they are responsible for both life and death on our planet. Show more
Dr Alice Roberts follows a trail of clues from ancient human bones to the frontiers of genetic research to discover if we are still evolving, and where we might be heading. Show more
Dr Kevin Fong investigates a pioneering technique of extreme cooling that is being used to bring people back from the dead. He meets the doctors who developed the procedure. Show more
Ben Miller investigates scientific accuracy. He meets researchers working with extremes of temperature, and experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics. Show more
Topical science series. This episode explores the wonderful world of illusions, revealing the tricks they play on our senses, why they fool us and the biology behind them. Show more
Science series. Dr Kevin Fong meets some of the people who have undergone pioneering heart operations and the scientists who are pushing the limits of cardiac treatment. Show more
The story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves - a crisis that became America's worst environmental disaster. Show more
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, including panthers, bears and wolves, close to where people live. Horizon meets the scientists behind this radical scheme. Show more
Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of an investigation into what is happening to our oceans, and looks at whether it is it too late to save their remarkable biodiversity. Show more
Series exploring topical scientific issues. Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past and looks at the most advanced car crash tests. Show more
The quest to explain the nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Are we are part of a cosmic hologram? Do we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds? Show more
Horizon follows three people, each with a genetic disease, as they visit Britain's leading research labs to find out what the sequencing of the human genome has done for them. Show more
This episode of the science series explores a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang. Show more