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.
In the era of music streaming, there are millions of songs at our fingertips. But in a world of near infinite music choices, music discovery and exposure have changed drastically.
It's no surprise that trained musicians experience music differently than others. Sure, musicians can hear and recognize similar chords or melodies across different songs, but is that all?
In this episode we learn about Carrion flowers, also called stink or corpse flower. The cuckoo hability to misdirect predators to find nests and how some animals released pheromones to comunicate.
A lot of problems in this episode. What is the Birthday Problem? Why the Gambler's Ruin debunks the 'luck' factor? And is the union of two sets with infinite elements still be infinity?
In this episode we'll understand how chromatic adaptation works, how do we see the color pink and why do blue rarely exists in nature.
Jack meets a poker player who has won millions in high stakes international tournaments using his gut instincts.
We meet an individual who has an extraordinary neurological condition, mirror touch synaesthesia, allows them to feel the exact sensation or emotion of another.
Dr Jack is going to sing with a choir like no other. Many of the members cannot talk, but they can sing!
Jörg & Cheyenne are challenged to create a Machine Gun Crossbow. They need to build a chassis, a magazine and an automatic firing and reloading mechanism. Can they build a fully automatic crossbow? And will it beat a team of crack crossbow shooters?
A look at the science behind curtailing the dangerous effects of climate change by capturing CO2 and converting it into useable products.
PROJECT MERCURY ADVANCES - America's first manned space program finally puts a man in orbit. CAMERA TRACKING - The array of special cameras that follow a spacecraft at launch.
PROJECT MERCURY BEGINS - The start of NASA & America's first manned space program. MARS EXPRESS - The European Space Agency's Mars Satellite. THE SOYUZ LAUNCH SYSTEM - The gradual evolution of Russia's Soyuz launcher.
COLD WAR & THE START OF THE SPACE RACE – Cold War rivalry and the acceleration of space exploration. SERVICING HUBBLE - Preparations for Hubble's final servicing mission. CHASING A COMET - Launch and the difficult path to rendezvous.
This is an inside look at NASA's groundbreaking Artemis Program, the spacecraft, and the people who will bring humanity one step closer to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA's James Webb Telescope. There first images from the world's largest and most powerful space telescope demonstrate Webb at its full power.
The story of the science behind the largest, most advanced, and most expensive telescope ever made.
George returns to “Fin Del Mundo” at the southern tip of Argentina. After braving the stormy Drake passage, he explores volcanic Deception Island, camps out in the Antarctic snow, and paddles a kayak through icebergs calved off the melting glaciers.
George explores the volcanoes of Costa Rica with an international team of scientists, rafts down whitewater rivers in full flood, canyoneers down raging waterfalls, and handles some of deadliest snakes this tropical country has to offer.
No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size.