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2016
2016x1
The Immortalist
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The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov recently brought together .. show full overview
2016x2
Project Greenglow: The Quest for Gravity Control
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This is the story of an extraordinary scientific adventure - the attempt to control gravity. For centuries, the precise workings of gravity have confounded the greatest scientific minds .. show full overview
2016x3
The Mystery of Dark Energy
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Horizon looks at dark energy - the mysterious force that is unexpectedly causing the universe's expansion to speed up. The effects of dark energy were discovered in 1998 but .. show full overview
2016x4
Oceans of the Solar System
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The oceans define the earth. They are crucial to life and we used to think that they were unique to our blue planet. But we were wrong. It has recently been discovered that there are .. show full overview
2016x5
The End of the Solar System
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This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future .. show full overview
2016x6
Should We Close Our Zoos?
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Liz Bonnin presents a controversial and provocative episode of Horizon, investigating how new scientific research is raising hard questions about zoos - the film explores how and why .. show full overview
2016x7
How to Find Love Online
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Dr Xand Van Tulleken is single and looking for love. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry wants to use him as her guinea pig to test whether the algorithms that dating sites use to match people .. show full overview
2016x8
Ice Station Antarctica
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Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over three months of the year, the sun never rises. .. show full overview
2016x9
Curing Alzheimer's
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Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions of sufferers across the world. New scanning and gene technology is allowing scientists to .. show full overview
2016x10
E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
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Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They're everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research on them reveal? Michael reveals what .. show full overview
2016x11
Why Are We Getting So Fat?
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Over 62% of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese and this figure is set to rise. A common attitude is that obese people should be ashamed - it is their fault, they have no .. show full overview
2016x12
Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?
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Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrative sponsorship deals to the hundreds of .. show full overview
2016x13
Inside CERN
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With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron .. show full overview
2016x14
My Amazing Twin
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The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are genetically identical and both .. show full overview
2016x15
Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter
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Comedian Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for this one-off special programme, produced as part of BBC2's sitcom season. Jimmy turns venerable documentary strand Horizon into a chat show, .. show full overview
2016x15
Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter
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Jimmy and his guests try to get to the bottom of what laughter is, why we enjoy it so much and what, if anything, it has to do with comedy. Between them, and with the help of .. show full overview
2016x16
The Lost Tribes of Humanity
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Alice Roberts explores recent discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics. Traditional .. show full overview
2016x16
The Wildest Weather in the Universe
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We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the heavens and wondering what the .. show full overview
2016x18
Duplicate of Episode 17
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We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the heavens and wondering what the .. show full overview

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