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Season 2012
2012x1
Playing God
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Jan 17, 2012
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 .. show full overview
2012x2
The Truth About Exercise
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Feb 28, 2012
Like many, Michael Mosley want to get fitter and healthier but can't face hours on the treadmill or trips to the gym. Help may be at hand. He uncovers the surprising new research .. show full overview
2012x3
Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
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Mar 06, 2012
Scientists are expecting a fit of violent activity on the sun which will propel billions of tonnes of superheated gas and pulses of energy towards our planet. They have the power to .. show full overview
2012x4
Out of Control?
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Mar 13, 2012
We all like to think we are in control of our lives - of what we feel and what we think. But scientists are now discovering this is often simply an illusion. Surprising experiments .. show full overview
2012x5
The Truth about Fat
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Mar 20, 2012
Surgeon Gabriel Weston discovers the surprising truth about why so many people are piling on the pounds, and how to fight the fat epidemic. She discovers the hidden battles of .. show full overview
2012x6
Global Weirding
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Mar 27, 2012
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 .. show full overview
2012x7
The Hunt for AI
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Apr 03, 2012
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 .. show full overview
2012x8
Defeating Cancer
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Apr 10, 2012
Over the past year, Horizon has been behind the scenes at one of Britain's leading cancer hospitals, the Royal Marsden in London. The film follows Rosemary, Phil and Ray as they .. show full overview
2012x9
The Transit of Venus: A Horizon Special
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Jun 05, 2012
Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves - the transit of Venus across the face of .. show full overview
2012x15
Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing
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Jul 17, 2012
Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 45 years that Horizon - and he - have been on air to find out what science .. show full overview
2012x10
The Truth About Looking Young
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Jul 23, 2012
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your skin look younger without surgery. She .. show full overview
2012x11
Mission to Mars
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Jul 30, 2012
Horizon goes behind the scenes at Nasa as they count down to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. The nuclear-powered vehicle, the size of a car, will be .. show full overview
2012x11
Eat, Fast and Live Longer
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Aug 06, 2012
Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible .. show full overview
2012x13
How Big Is the Universe?
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Aug 27, 2012
Cosmologists talk about their project to create a map of everything in existence, and also reveal that their research has some highly unexpected results, creating a picture stranger than anything they had ever imagined.
2012x14
How Small is the Universe?
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Sep 03, 2012
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 .. show full overview
2012x14
Defeating the Superbugs
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Sep 10, 2012
Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacteria that are becoming resistant to our only defense; .. show full overview
2012x16
The Final Frontier? A Horizon Guide to the Universe
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Oct 17, 2012
Dallas Campbell looks back through almost 50 years of the Horizon archives to chart the scientific breakthroughs that have transformed our understanding of the universe. From Einstein's .. show full overview

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