Tiny weapons may not sound impressive, but small can kill, and it can also be easily concealed from a pocket pistol used by the police to a submachine gun wielded by a bodyguard, many of today's most effective weapons are smaller than ever.
Nuclear research ranges from well-known applications, such as bombs and reactors, to little-known uses in medicine, food preparation, and radiation detection. It's also spawned ancillary technologies to store nuclear waste and clean up accidents.
The U.S. Navy's most lethal fighter, the F-14, soars at supersonic speeds.
Scientists and technicians use cutting-edge forensic technology to unearth identities of perpetrators at the FBI's crime lab at Quantico.
Close to 40% of Earth is classified as desert, but these environments offer hope through Middle East desalination, Las Vegas communities, Hoover Dam power, irrigation agriculture, solar energy, and technology enabling future Mars colonization.
The Allies devise scientific and mechanical breakthroughs to thwart Hitler's Atlantic Wall and to make the D-Day invasion successful.
Strange weapons of the past and present include Japanese ninja claws, microwavelike rays, lasers, robots, the "pukelight," and a superslippery substance.
From elaborate elite training facilities to GPS-guided air drops, to revolutionary high-tech tents and fire-retardant uniforms, episode explores the science and technology of building, operating and protecting a base in a warzone.
Tiny weapons may not sound impressive, but small can kill, and it can also be easily concealed from a pocket pistol used by the police to a submachine gun wielded by a bodyguard, many of today's most effective weapons are smaller than ever.
A computer-managed home in Colorado showcases the high tech gadgetry destined to inhabit every wall in the future a network of walls with cutouts and Plexiglas windows reveal how pests and creepy crawlies of all kinds can congregate.
June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord springs into action as the greatest WWII machine with thousands of ships, aircraft, thousands of men, and millions of tons of steel interlocking precision overcomes Hitler's defenses in history's greatest assault.
Traces physical fitness' role in the health of the individual and society from ancient Greek gymnasiums, where pupils pumped up the mind as well as body, to 19th-century Muscular Christians, who saw exercise as an obligation to God.
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.
When poliomyelitis swept the nation, thousands died or became disabled before American ingenuity and desperation led to one of history's greatest scientific breakthroughs witness how polio shaped FDR's vision and made Jonas Salk famous.
In 1941, penicillin was first used to save human life now, bacteria has emerged resistant to every known antibiotic and scientists have begun to fear that the era of the wonder drugs is near to its end.
The idea of floating to earth from great heights dates back centuries, and from the beginning parachutes combined entertainment with life-saving utility the parachute has also played a vital role in modern warfare since WWI.
Strap on a parachute and soar through the saga of jet propulsion which radically transformed the world since inception of World War II.
June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord springs into action as the greatest WWII machine with thousands of ships, aircraft, thousands of men, and millions of tons of steel interlocking precision overcomes Hitler's defenses in history's greatest assault.
Traces physical fitness' role in the health of the individual and society from ancient Greek gymnasiums, where pupils pumped up the mind as well as body, to 19th-century Muscular Christians, who saw exercise as an obligation to God.
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.