China’s Pearl River Tower is the world’s first super-tall smart building. With its revolutionary aerodynamic shape, the Pearl River Tower sets the benchmark for building designs of the future.

Soaring a dizzying 610 meters skywards, Guangzhou's Sightseeing and TV Tower is on track to becoming the tallest television tower on Earth. It’s the testimony to the vision of a small architectural team who dared to dream big. Because of its complex high-tech geometry and lavish proportions, the Sightseeing and TV Tower will be the icon that puts Guangzhou on the map.

The human body offers an astounding array of bountiful environments, ripe for microbial exploitation. These diverse regions of our own bodies are host to a lively, unseen world. Through the use of computer graphics, and with the help of leading microbial experts, we enter the world of bacteria as we’ve never seen them before.

They're the biggest, tallest, and most powerful. Few choose to face them. Few try to understand them. And even fewer can survive them. Yet all are in awe of the deadly force called "Monster Waves". We'll show you what we know about this unstoppable force from the deep and examine why, despite the danger, we still take the plunge into Monster Waves.

Human mutation has always been fascinating. From the ruthless ‘dime’ museums of the nineteenth century to today’s reptile collectors willing to pay thousands of dollars for oddly mutated specimens. Beyond the spectacle is science: research is uncovering how mutation works and how mutants may benefit medicine in finding cures for life-threatening diseases.

From the secret diamond mines of Ancient India, to the royal courts of King Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette and King George IV, this is the epic story of the Hope Diamond, the world’s most mysterious and coveted gem.   Allegedly a curse to those that own it, the diamond has inspired centuries of superstition and passion – and now a major scientific exploration into its unique and bizarre nature.

This documentary reveals the latest developments in deep sea science, exploring the still largely unknown abysses of the ocean and its essential impact on our environment and climate. In a world of dwindling resources and a changing climate, we need to know more about the depths of the element that makes this planet a blue one.

Recently frogs from every continent around the world have suffered from unexplained high death rates, pushing some species towards extinction. Could it be caused by the first commercial pregnancy test used from the early 1930’s until the early 1960’s? Join Professor Louis du Preez and Marius Burger as they investigate what they believe is the reason for the decline of amphibians.

Many scientists are convinced that a cure for Parkinson’s disease will be found within 10 to 15 years. With more than 1 million sufferers in the United States alone, hopes rest with three research projects and one risky cutting-edge surgical treatment.