How Things Work
Treadmill, turntable, barbeque, outboard motor, pneumatic drill, ballpoint pen... Using ultra realistic CGI animation, we explode everyday objects into their component parts, to reveal their secret workings.
Treadmill, turntable, barbeque, outboard motor, pneumatic drill, ballpoint pen... Using ultra realistic CGI animation, we explode everyday objects into their component parts, to reveal their secret workings.
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Modern warfare spans land, sea, and air. This episode explores training for Full Spectrum Warfare across all environments.
Modern tech is reshaping battlefields and training. This episode explores simulators and tools that prepare soldiers for combat.
Human needs have always created opportunities for human greed. And energy might be the most crucial need of all. Could we end up paying a subscription fee for sunlight?
Space is home to crucial resources, important discoveries, and big potential profit.
Survival anywhere requires that we adapt to our surroundings but how will humans adapt to survive in space?
Emma meets Dr. Asad Khan, whose life was upended by long COVID, as new research seeks answers for millions still suffering worldwide.
Reya El-Salahi explores how the northern lights can disrupt technology and visits EISCAT 3D, a new radar studying solar particle impacts.
Reya El-Salahi visits Spain's Sierra Morena to see how conservation brought the Iberian lynx back from under 100 to thriving again.
Learn how this deeply rooted Japanese tradition of forest bathing offers both physical and psychological benefits, opening your mind and tuning your senses to the therapeutic powers of nature.
Mike learns what happiness means to the people of Bhutan. He visits a school and a rural farm and learns how happiness is integrated into day-to-day life and leaves a note for his father at the famous Tigers Nest temple.
Bhutan embraces happiness above all else for its citizens. This approach has made Bhutan a model for health around the world. Is happiness the key to better health?
The world's second-largest crane vessel faces tense delays and closing weather during a multi-million-dollar oil rig job.
Engineers use modern hydraulics to sail the world's largest square-rigged ship while keeping high-end cruise guests comfortable.
The Mighty Red River is a fearsome threat to all who live along its banks, and only one machine stands between the little town of Selkirk, Manitoba, and devastating floods – the Amphibex amphibious excavator.
6000 feet up in Colorado's Rocky Mountains is the Colewyo coal mine. This massive operation produces 2.3 million tons of coal a year to feed the Craig power station with the fuel it needs to supply 1300 megawatts of electricity to the Tri-State area.
In the hills to the west of St. Louis, Missouri there is a panther on the loose. The Prinoth Panther is the ultimate all-terrain, multi-purpose work vehicle. It's a crane, it's a tractor, it's a digger – it's anything you need it to be.
Elevator, gas pump, air-hockey table, wood chipper, deli meat slicer and dentist drill... Using ultra realistic CGI animation, we explode everyday objects into their component parts, to reveal their secret workings.
Cross-trainer, 3D printer, food mixer, frozen yoghurt maker, turnstile and office chair... Using ultra realistic CGI animation, we explode everyday objects into their component parts, to reveal their secret workings.
Treadmill, turntable, barbeque, outboard motor, pneumatic drill, ballpoint pen... Using ultra realistic CGI animation, we explode everyday objects into their component parts, to reveal their secret workings.
Explore the ultimate adrenaline rush – the world's fastest and scariest thrill rides.
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