• In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem of satellites mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from astronauts and experts, Horizon reveals the scale of the problem of space junk. Our planet is surrounded by hundreds of millions of pieces of junk moving at 17,000 miles...
  • Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley sets out to discover which if any of the tests are worth doing.
  • BBC 电子游戏自诞生之日起,媒体与学界对其进行的争论就从未停息。有人说它使人成瘾,有人说它让人变得暴力……然而这些都是真的吗?电子游戏真的有那么坏吗?《地平线》将带你回顾三十年来学界对其进行的各项研究,从科学角度阐释电子游戏对人脑产生的影响,以及它可能为我们带来的益处。
  • There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances?   In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...
  • 2013年2月28日,佛罗里达坦帕市东郊住宅区,正在熟睡中的杰夫·布什和他的卧室突然消失得无影无踪。可怕的是,他消失前毫无征兆,杰夫从此杳无音信。他被陷穴吞没了。那么,陷穴是如何形成的?对于陷穴我们能做些什么?在这个不可思议的地理侦探故事片中,伊恩·斯图尔特博士发掘了地球几百万年的历史,以寻找这些问题的答案,并追问是否会有更多陷穴在我们身边出现。
  • ADHD指注意缺陷多动障碍,又称多动症。英国著名喜剧演员Rory Bremner受到多动症的困扰,他采访医疗机构,尝试新药,了解ADHD背后的科学
  • A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS.   On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on eve...
  • 修建在南极布伦特冰架上的英国最尖端科学考察站哈利六号(Halley VI)遇到麻烦,巨大冰裂缝距离科考站只有6公里。本片讲述为价值近3千万英镑的哈利搬家的艰难工程。   Last year, Natalie Hewit documented the British Antarctic Survey’s attempt to drag Halley VI, its 981-tonne research station, 23km to a safer location as the Brunt ice shelf it stands on begins to break up. The “beakers” – the science folk – make up a small minority of those involved – there are ...
  • The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change.   This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...
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