An artistic, spiritual adventure to the Vatican heritage site, where religion, politics, arts and science meet...and new, untold secrets are revealed. Through 3D and CGI, watch archeologists, art restorers and palaeographers reveal the true history of this architectural masterpiece.
Can AI enable us to live forever? Explore the latest advancements in AI, robotics and biotech with visionaries who foresee a new age of “post-biological” life. As scientists point toward a world where humans and machines merge, we have to ask: “Will AI be the best, or the last thing we ever do?”
Owls have moved into environments from tundra to rain forest and will hunt almost anything.
Rainforests, the richest habitats on earth, teem with millions of dramatic plants and animals.
Exploring Australia's widely varied landscapes and weird and wonderful wildlife.
There are few places more magical than a forest where enchantment can be found at every turn.
South America is home to record-breaking mountain ranges and massive rainforests.
Why doesn’t education use innovation and free market forces to grow like a successful business? Cato Institute’s Andrew Coulson explores.
Imagine if all waste just lay where it fell. We’d all be drowning in feces rotting plants and animal corpses, were it not for the cleanup crew. Often unfairly despised, we should see these animals, crabs, dung beetles, vultures and crows as our heroes, keeping us safe from diseases.
Pan Am was the most famous airline in the world—and it stood for the American way of life. It soared to incredible heights, then crashed hard. Three decades after its demise, the Pan Am "myth" lives on. This is a story of technical feats, daring pioneering deeds and great challenges.
Journey back to primeval Earth in the age of dinosaurs for new findings and puzzling discoveries about their evolution and extinction.
Come with us on a journey to the past as we re-visit Europe's forgotten dictatorships.
Nature is red in tooth and claw, animals face daily battles to protect themselves and secure the resources they need.
During the 1930s, communities across Appalachia were in the dark at night because electric lines still had not connected them to the 20th Century. The TVA turned to the watersheds draining the Great Smoky Mountains and built a series of hydroelectric complexes that sparked the South’s economy.
During WWII the federal government took over the 60k acres of land known as, Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, turning it into a secret city where workers unknowingly were building the world's 1st atomic bomb. Today it’s known as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where some believe that WWII was won.
Follow the brave divers who journey to the depths of the Baltic Sea to uncover its hidden war stories.
SPACE GREED: Coveting, controlling, and carving up the cosmos.
They might not look as impressive as wolves, but the little dogs of the world are just as complex and endearing. By following dog families from across the world, we’ll see the similarities and differences in how they live, from how they interact and defend themselves to how they find food.
The FAST radio telescope is the biggest ever built—and can detect signals emitted tens of thousands of light years away. From technological innovations to architectural challenges and first results, follow each step that gave birth to a tool designed to prove we aren’t alone in the universe.
Most visitors to the UK head for London, maybe Stonehenge or ancient cities, but for its tiny size, the UK has surprisingly rich and diverse wild places, and wildlife, hidden from view unless you seek it out.
This talk is given by Steve Brusatte of University of Edinburgh.
Slime's a funny thing, weird and wonderful. It can help salamanders to wet so they can breathe through their skin, provide a life-support bubble or developing frogs and even get snails from A to B.
New York. America’s largest city. Here is how a mostly unseen network of infrastructure systems works in unison to keep the city breathing.
All habitats present challenges to life, but few more so than the desert, but still, even here, life abounds, from little foxes to speed lizards and light-footed gazelles to huge camels. Each one finds its own ways to exploit and conserve food and water, creating new dramas every day.
