Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Why Do Viruses Kill?

The world stood in fear of an emerging new illness that threatened to destroy hundreds of thousands.

A brand new flu variant H1N1 had arrived. Within the UK alone, 65,000 deaths had been predicted. But to date, these dire warnings have not materialized.

If this newest pandemic has taught something, it is just how small is recognized concerning the invisible globe of viruses. But that has not stopped scientists attempting.

Horizon follows the top researchers from across the world, who’re trying to unravel the several secrets of viruses to understand when and why they kill.

Posted by Sara on December 13th, 2010 No Comments

Fix Me

Horizon follows the emotional journey of 3 young people today with currently untreatable circumstances to find out if within their lifetime, they may be cured.

Sophie is desperate to find if there’s a healthcare breakthrough which will get her walking again – a automobile crash following celebrating her A degree outcomes left her paralyzed through the waist down.

Posted by Sara on December 10th, 2010 No Comments

The Secret You

With the assist of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston along with a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes looking for solutions to one of science’s biggest mysteries: how do we all know who we are?

Whilst the thoughts that make us feel as although we all know ourselves are easy to experience, they’re notoriously tough to explain. So, in order to locate out exactly where they come from, Marcus subjects himself to a collection of probing experiments.

Posted by Sara on December 9th, 2010 No Comments

The Changing Ape

In the sweltering heart of Senegal, in a location known as Fongoli, a chimpanzee performs an earth-shattering act.

She strips a department of its leaves, chews the tip into a stage and jams the instrument into a hole inside a tree, killing a bushbaby. In short, she has been creating tools and utilizing them to hunt.

Only people are intended to become capable of that. Anthropologist Jill Pruetz will take us deep in to the fascinating globe with the creatures she has studied for 9 years, giving us exclusive access to not only their groundbreaking hunting skills but their other strangely human techniques.

They spend most of their days to the ground, they splash in swimming holes and they even curl up in caves to rest. With the aid of experts on our earliest ancestors and freshly learned proof on the chimp stone age, we get an eye-opening scientific journey that reveals as significantly about ourselves because it does concerning the remarkable chimps of Fongoli.

Posted by Sara on December 5th, 2010 No Comments

Was Darwin Wrong?

The perform from the 19th-century English naturalist shocked society and revolutionized science. How well has it withstood the test of time?

Evolution by all-natural choice, the central concept of your life’s do the job of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It’s a concept concerning the origin of adaptation, complexity, and variety among Earth’s dwelling creatures. If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar using the terminology of science, and unaware with the overwhelming proof, you may possibly even be tempted to say that it’s only a principle.

Posted by Sara on December 3rd, 2010 No Comments

BrainSex – Why We Fall in Love?

BrainSex – Why We Fall In Love, is an interesting documentary concerning the science and healthy findings as to why humans fall in appreciate.

For hundreds of years, enjoy may be celebrated – and probed – largely by poets, artists, and balladeers. But now, its mysteries are also yielding to the resources of science, such as modern mind scanning machines.

Posted by Sara on December 1st, 2010 No Comments

Evolutions

Using CGI and fossil proof, Evolutions demonstrates nature’s survival of the fittest in motion.

This three-part series illuminates unique and bizarre evolutionary journeys that have brought forth some of the world’s most remarkable animals.

We unearth a 50-million-year-old thriller mammal, discover the missing link between the velociraptor and contemporary day birds, and find out if a new bear species could be about to evolve before our extremely eyes.

Posted by Sara on November 28th, 2010 No Comments

Galapagos: Beyond Darwin

Galapagos: Past Darwin takes a scientific and photographic take a look at marine and terrestrial life in the Galapagos Islands.

The inspiration behind Charles Darwin’s boldest theories of evolution, the Galapagos Islands may be more provocative than Darwin originally anticipated. Explore the fascinating world of your Galapagos archipelago that Charles Darwin couldn’t discover in his 1835 go to.

Using underwater footage and state-of-the-art scientific gear, marvel as new discoveries are made about marine and terrestrial existence.

Posted by Sara on November 28th, 2010 No Comments

Miracle Planet

Earth was born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, the moon created by a single giant impact event. Then, Earth’s size attracted large meteorites, which slammed into it, creating super-high-temperature rock vapor to cover the entire surface and evaporate all ocean water.

The earliest life-forms survived such infernal events by escaping deep into the ground, miraculously emerging again and again. The Earth has gone via innumerable catastrophic events, and life has survived by acquiring new abilities to live via each crisis.

Posted by Sara on November 24th, 2010 No Comments

Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

A wonderful documentary tracing the earliest human migration on this planet, as shown by our genetic roots.

This informative film, full of surprising news, is based on the work of Spencer Wells, who is both innovative scientist and enthusiastic host.

He and crew scour the world for indigenous people with deep roots in one place, asking for samples of DNA to test, in order to piece together our “big family” genetic tree.

Posted by Sara on November 24th, 2010 No Comments