6.0 英语 · 2012 · 英国 · 电影
约翰·汉纳
Horizon plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the Universe. It is a journey where things don't just become smaller but also a whole lot weirder. Scientists hope to catch a glimpse of miniature black holes, multiple dimensions and even parallel Universes. As they start to explore this wonderland, where nothing is quite what it seems, ...
6.0 英语 · 2011 · 英国 · 电影
萨曼莎·邦德,Serge Caparos,Jules Davidoff
Roses are red, violets are blue but according to the latest understanding these colours are really an illusion. One that you create yourself. Horizon reveals a surprising truth about how we all see the world. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colours you see may not always be the same as the colours I see. Your age, s...
9.0 英语 · 2018 · 英国 · 电影
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What is it like to be young and find out you have got cancer? What you will find out in this film may surprise you. This film, narrated by actor and comedian Jack Whitehall, tells 11 inspirational stories, revealing how a range of young people have dealt with their cancer diagnosis and the treatment process. We hear, primarily in their own words, about their fears, their hopes ...
7.0 英语 · 2020 · 英国 · 电影
Hannah Fry,迈克尔·莫斯利
Is your smart phone making you stupid? Can you make yourself cleverer? The Great British Intelligence Test measures the brainpower of the nation in one of the largest intelligence experiments of its kind. Devised with leading scientists at Imperial College, London, over 250,000 people around the nation have taken part so far - revealing important new science about the nation’s ...
8.0 英语 · 2019 · 英国 · 电影
Aldo Kane
Drones are transforming our world. We use them to deliver our medicines, clean our skyscrapers and even fight fires. But there is a dark side to this airborne revolution, from a shocking rise in drone-plane near misses above our heads to last year's sustained drone disruption at Gatwick – Britain's second largest airport – that ruined the Christmas plans of 140,000 people and c...
7.0 英语 · 2018 · 英国 · 电影
Dr.Hannah Fry
Artificial Intelligence is starting to transform healthcare beyond recognition. The vision for tech companies is to get AI computers to diagnose diseases as well as a human doctor, which could ultimately result in accessible, more affordable, better healthcare for almost everyone. In a world with a chronic shortage of doctors, but where even the very poor own mobile phones, it ...
10.0 英语 · 2018 · 英国 · 电影
Alexander van Tulleken
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tulleken is himself. And he wants to know why. In this sensitive film, Xand finds out what we know about why people develop suicidal thoughts, and whether there is anything that we ca...
6.0 英语 · 2017 · 英国 · 电影
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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
8.0 英语 · 2017 · 英国 · 电影
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For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials. In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic...
8.0 英语 · 2017 · 英国 · 电影
Ben Arogundade
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...
7.0 英语 · 2017 · 英国 · 电影
方凯文
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...
9.0 英语 · 2016 · 英国 · 电影
吉米·卡尔,Sara Algoe,Robin Dunbar
人为什么会笑？笑的本质是什么？笑声在社交中有什么作用？大脑能分辨真笑和假笑吗？存在全世界通行的喜剧吗？
7.0 英语 · 2016 · 英国 · 电影
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水是生命之源，科学家用望远镜和探测器寻找地球之外的水源，从地球环境模拟生态演变，发现太阳系的多颗行星和卫星都有汪洋迹象，并可能有生命存活至今。我们苦苦寻找的外星生命，也许就近在身边，这结论挺叫人兴奋的。
8.0 英语 · 2014 · 英国 · 电影
伊安·斯图瓦特
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。
7.0 英语 · 2015 · 英国 · 电影
迈克尔·莫斯利
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.
9.0 英语 · 2015 · 英国 · 电影
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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...
7.0 英语 · 2012 · 英国 · 电影
Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to m...
6.0 英语 · 2013 · 英国 · 电影
安德鲁·斯科特,Linda Bartoshuk,Molly Birnbaum
Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and it is a lot more surprising than you might think. There may a way to make food taste sweeter without adding any extra sugar and it is all down to a trick that happens in your brain. Horizon meets the scientist who has grown the perfect tom...
9.0 英语 · 2013 · 英国 · 电影
凯莉·亨特
《地平线》栏目帮你发现宠物猫在猫门以外的生活。 这是一个开创性的实验，研究人员给在萨里郡的一个村庄50只猫戴上了标签与GPS项圈，并记录他们的白天黑夜在后院、花园围栏和灌木狩猎和巡逻的行踪。 此片开发了猫对这个世界的独特视野。你以为你足够了解自己的宠物猫？其实他们的秘密生活会让你惊讶。
9.0 英语 · 2011 · 英国 · 电影
Sara Mendes da Costa,Lewis Ball,Blake Bullock
Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. This film follows the men and women who are pushing the limits of science and engineering in some of the most ...
8.0 英语 · 2011 · 英国 · 电影
雨果·斯皮尔,Saleh Al-Wasel,David Barker
Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more lasting effects on you today than your lifestyle or genes. It is one of the most powerful and provocative new ideas in human science, and it was pioneered by a British scientist, Professor David Barker. ...
5.0 英语 · 2013 · 英国 · 电影
Iain Stewart,Mark Boslough,Steven R. Chesley,...
On a bright, cold morning on 15th February 2013, a meteorite ripped across the skies above the Ural mountains in Russia, distintegrating into three pieces and exploding with the force of 20 Hiroshimas. It was a stark reminder that the Earth's journey through space is fraught with danger. A day later another much larger 14,3000 tonne asteroid, passed within just 17,000 miles of ...
8.0 英语 · 2015 · 英国 · 电影
Michael Mosley
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...
7.0 英语 · 2015 · 英国 · 电影
Adrian Lester
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...
8.0 英语 · 2015 · 英国 · 电影
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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...
9.0 英语 · 2017 · 英国 · 电影
Sara Pascoe
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 ...