• Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme.   In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country have experienced intense droughts and torrential floods. It is a pattern that appears to be playing out across the globe. Hurricane chasers are recording bigger storms and in Texas,...
  • Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence.   His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape.   Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a super computer bea...
  • 本部纪录片是英国BBC地平线系列中的一部。这让我们又爱又恨的神奇液体,就是一种泛滥成灾的成瘾品——酒。戒毒专家约翰·马斯登亲身说法,从专业和个性化的角度探索我们与酒精之间的关系,用科学的观点介绍人们对酒的依赖。   酒精是迄今为止最为广泛使用的药物,当然也是最危险的。那么,为什么这样多的人会饮酒过量?为什么酒精会如此强大的控制着我们的神经?酒精跟基因有关么?如果青少年过早饮酒的真正危害又是什么呢……面对如此之多的疑问,约翰试图与药品设计师开发出实验药物,来取代酒精。在不久的将来,这种药物是否会取代酒精呢?
  • The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D images of their content, experts are discovering the truth about the strange role animals played in ancient Egyptian belief.   This episode of Horizon meets the scientists working in Egypt who are exploring the ancient underground catacombs wher...
  • Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history.   Now, o...
  • Imagine a world where dinosaurs still walk the earth. A world where the Germans won World War II and you are president of the United States. Imagine a world where the laws of physics no longer apply and where infinite copies of you are playing out every storyline of your life.   It sounds like a plot stolen straight from Hollywood, but far from it. This is the multiverse.   Until v...
  • 《一念》纪录一位医生从临床医疗执行,到对于生命因有更深层的体悟而撰书甚至到处演讲推广。影片以正值青春年华但身体却因伤瘫痪的病人,虽意识清楚能说话,无知无觉的身躯使其没有活下去的动力。以及儿女面对父母生重病,在医护过程放手与不舍之间的天人交战导演陈志汉表示:“生死一向是生命重要课题,我关注无效医疗的议题,以及人的思维和喜怒哀乐,我觉得是有助于此议题寻求解决及讨论的借镜。”相信看了本片的人都可以找到一些出口及方法。
  • 癌细胞是细胞变异产生的错误结果,一旦无法摧毁,则会分裂扩散,这是人类作为细胞生物所要承受的痛苦之一。目前有效抗癌的手段只有射线疗法,但科学家们一直在此领域上研究,并取得了一定进程。
  • 创世大爆炸之前是什么样的?答案或许在黑洞中。
  • 1983年春天,蘭陵劇坊4歲,《演員實驗教室》在台北國立藝術館首演,共演出8場。   1991年,劇團解散。但是每十年,他們會聚在一起,重演一齣老戲。   2018年春天,蘭陵40歲,《演員實驗教室》在台北國家戲劇院重演,共演出4場。   2018-2019年秋天,在烏鎮、上海、北京、西安、廈門、成都六個城市巡演,共演出19場。   2020-2021年,因為疫情,劇場活動全球暫停。   2022年春天,在台中歌劇院、高雄衛武營、台北國家戲劇院演出,共演出6場。   旅程種種,是以記之。
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