The price of oil is rising. The industry justifies increased costs with the search for hidden oil reservoirs and the development of new technologies. But is the race against empty gas stations winnabl... >>

Catch a ride on some of the world’s biggest and most powerful machines as they try to survive everything Alaska throws at them. We\'re targeting heavy-haul trucks that carry 90-ton loads, immense... >>

A group of modern scientists engage in the first exploration of the scientific contents of the great manuscript archives of Timbuktu. The ancient papers are in grave danger of being destroyed by th... >>

Throughout the world the richer we get the fewer children we seem to have. In most countries across the developed world the fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement rate of 2.1 births p... >>

What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses, and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew but failed to warn you? Bad Blood chronicles how a 'miracle' treatment... >>

Why is the sea off the south coast of Japan so extraordinarily deadly? Why have so many ships, submarines and planes met their doom here? Could this stretch of water be the Bermuda Triangle of the ... >>

This is the story of a giant winter swell in the North Pacific, from its birth to its death on California’s shores. Three big wave surfers and two elite forecasters share the passion, fear and ob... >>

Have we become too clean for our own good? Medical researchers suggest the war against germs in the hygiene-obsessed western world may be triggering serious illnesses in hundreds of millions of peo... >>

Dubbed “the bridge that couldn’t be built”, eighteen years, eleven deaths and an engineering revolution later, it stunned the world. Ever prone to climate extremes, this is the story, not of ... >>

Alaska is a land of extreme natural architecture and forces: active volcanoes, frequent earthquakes, harsh weather and climate, and glaciers in never ending motion.  Still under construction, Alas... >>

In this episode we follow the construction work of two of the tallest structures the Middle East has ever seen - the Al Faisaliah Tower and Kingdom Centre in Saudi Arabia. Just as previous generations... >>

Using dynamic experiential visuals with fascinating facts and figures we’ll reveal the serious science of Interstate building. We’ll pour asphalt on I-35 where it\'s 115° F in the shade, injec... >>

How would you survive a zombie invasion? Could you stay awake long enough to outwit Freddy Krueger? This is the ultimate terror test for anyone who’s ever wondered what they’d do if their deepe... >>

The pilots of The USS Enterprise have seen heavy action in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now, finally, are returning home. We go aboard to deconstruct how a carrier works in wartime, with amazing perso... >>

Niagara Falls. Seventeen stories tall with currents racing 40 kilometres per hour and dumping two million litres of water per second. Since the 19th century, people have gone over the edge in custo... >>

Meet the Japanese scientist who believes seaweed is the answer to our energy needs, or the Indian pioneer who makes water pumps powered by merry-go-rounds.

Chemical warfare may be rare among humankind, but is an every day part of nature. This is the story of unusual and rarely seen uses of venom and poisons, both as weapons of attack and defence. It f... >>

Chilean Mine Rescue brings a unique perspective to the 2010 Chilean mining disaster using science to explain how and why the catastrophe occurred. Extensive 3D graphics clearly explain the structure o... >>

In 2008, China’s monster quake claimed 80,000 lives and destroyed five million buildings. In 2009 an international team of earthquake scientists head into the heart of China to decode the disaste... >>

Thanks to the invention of spaceflight, the drive to explore is leading us out into the solar system where a host of alien worlds offers us vast new terrain to uncover. We roam this territory today wi... >>

Meet Tony Grobmeier, who was born without a corpus callosum, the structure that connects the two interdependent halves of our brains: language and linear thinking on the left, emotion and visual pe... >>

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was the most shockingly disfigured person in history. For more than a century the cause of his deformities has baffled doctors and scientists around the world. Usi... >>

No one knows exactly how cystic fibrosis destroys its victim’s lungs, but we do know that at the heart of the mystery lies salt: the salt that’s essential to the working of a healthy body. This... >>

Killer asteroids, solar flares and potentially lethal alien viruses are some of the dangers our planet faces. A small number of individuals and organizations have started to recognize this threat and ... >>

Water is the giver of life. Without it, earth would be a lifeless rock. But of all the natural forces, water is the most feared. With the power to destroy life in a moment, floods stalk our planet,... >>