In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue -- the world's first synthetic dye. In just a few years, ‘Mauve' would take over the fashion industry and enable stunning advances in medicine.
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These are the the Moon's of the gas giants. Each a unique and mysterious world of its own. All are worthy of much more scrutiny.
Beyond the asteroid belt lay the ice giants, some can be seen with the naked eye, others only glimpsed once by a passing probe. We are again sending cameras to the edge of the solar system giving us new insights into the evolution of our worlds.
From the beginnings of our Solar System four and half billion years ago there remains tantalizing clues to its evolution remnent debris: asteroids and comets. Now within our grasp these rocks of ice and dust are ready to give up their secrets.
Survival anywhere requires that we adapt to our surroundings but how will humans adapt to survive in space?
Join host Emily Calandrelli as she explores what exactly this "space junk" is and how we track and manage all of the stuff hurtling around our planet.
Join host Emily Calandrelli as she explores the most inhospitable and extreme places in our own solar system.
Join host Emily Calandrelli as she meets up with the world's leading experts and explores how we will travel through space in the future.
Join Emily Calandrelli as she tours a 1 million square foot facility in Alabama that is manufacturing some of the world's most powerful rockets.
It has fired our imaginations for millennia, Mars, the God of War and the source of Man's science fictional demise. It is the only other place in our solar system than Man might one day call home.
Venus the first and brightest star in the evening sky, and Mercury fleeting across the solar disk. As we begin to take a closer look at our companions they are posing more questions than answers.
Few have walked on the moon's surface, though her allure remains strong, once again we are glancing her way with renewed interest and with a view to return very soon.
The first phase of this journey is complete, now commences the second, with robotics, advanced technologies and sheer daring we are now going where before we only dreamt.
George Birkadze from Tblisi, Georgia, practices and teaches Mixed Martial Arts but is also a world famous ballet dancer, instructor and choreographer in based in Boston, U.S.A.
Australian Michael No, who lives and works in Japan, trains at a 900 year old Yabusame school and performs traditional horseback archery during a shinto ritual.
Tharoth Sam, 26, is the first female fighter in Cambodian Bokator. She is also an MMA fighter and became a movie star starring in the big screen blockbuster, Jailbreak.
How will “world wide wifi” change the world again?
Earthrise travels to Kenya and South Korea to look at two initiatives which are redress some of the imbalances in our unsustainable and wasteful global food system.
Earthrise meets some of the lawyers and campaigners who are putting polluters in the dock and forcing systems change through the courts.
We discover rich landscapes threatened by industrial development and the fight to save these precious ecosystems.
We visit Patagonia National Park to find out how it became one of the biggest conservation projects in history.
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