BBC Horizon

BBC Horizon

A long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme. The format of the series varied in the early years following its launch in 1964 but is now standardised at 50 minutes.
 
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Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1440 Comments: 2 Horizon: The Rubber Hand Illusion Horizon: The Rubber Hand Illusion The Rubber hand illusion - as demonstrated in this clip - reveals the powerful connection between what we see and what we feel. Fascinating short segment (4:01) from acclaimed BBC 2 science series, Horizon. User: spam_vigilante Feb 4, 2013 4:28 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 666 Comments: 1 Horizon: Defeating the Superbugs Horizon: Defeating the Superbugs Duration: 59 minutes, aired on BBC Two, Mon 10 Sep 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 defence: antibiotics. Horizon meets the scientists who are tracking the spread of these potential killers around the globe, and discovers the new techniques researchers are developing to help. User: spam_vigilante Sep 25, 2012 4:19 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 396 Comments: 0 Horizon: Asteroids: The Good, Bad & Ugly Horizon: Asteroids: The Good, Bad & Ugly Broadcast 2010. Famed for their ability to inflict Armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing the secrets of how they are responsible for both life and death on our planet. Armed with an array of powerful telescopes, scientists are finding up to 3000 new asteroids every night. And some are heading our way. But astronomers have discovered that it's not the giant rocks that are the greatest danger - it's the small asteroids that pose a more immediate threat to Earth. Researchers have explained the photon propulsion that propels these rocks across space, and have discovered that some asteroids are carrying a mysterious cargo of frost and ice across the solar system that could have helped start life on Earth. User: spam_vigilante Aug 26, 2012 5:18 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 859 Comments: 1 BBC Horizon: SARS, The True Story (2003) BBC Horizon: SARS, The True Story (2003) Series 39 Episode 18 first broadcast May 29, 2003. User: spam_vigilante Jul 29, 2012 5:09 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 816 Comments: 0 Horizon: Bringing Dead Hearts Back To Life Horizon: Bringing Dead Hearts Back To Life Scientists at the University of Minnesota have perfected a technique for re-animating dead hearts. By studying a visible beating heart, the scientists hope to gain a remarkable insight into its function. In this clip Prof. Paul Iaizzo uses a pig's heart to demostrate the re-animation process. From: "Horizon: How To Mend A Broken Heart" User: IAmDeK Jul 27, 2012 11:51 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 267 Comments: 0 BBC Horizon: Defeating Cancer (2012) BBC Horizon: Defeating Cancer (2012) Episode 13 of 15, Horizon, 2011-2012 Duration: 59 minutes 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 undergo remarkable new treatments - from a billion pound genetically targeted drug designed to fight a type of skin cancer, to advanced robotic surgery. We witness the breakthroughs in surgery and in scientific research that are offering new hope and helping to defeat a disease that more than one in three of us will develop at some stage of our lives. User: spam_vigilante Jul 17, 2012 2:58 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 947 Comments: 1 Horizon: Doctors in the Death Zone Horizon: Doctors in the Death Zone This two-part special follows a team of doctors conducting a series of groundbreaking experiments as they climb Everest, the world's highest peak. From their laboratory tents, pitched in -25°C conditions, the experts use their own bodies for medical tests. They push themselves to the limit to better understand the human body's behaviour in a low-oxygen environment. The team hopes their work will lead to new, life-saving treatments for intensive care patients suffering from hypoxia, a shortage of oxygen in the body. Last aired Sunday 30 September 2007 on BBC Two. User: spam_vigilante Jun 22, 2012 7:40 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1474 Comments: 1 Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne on Time Travel Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne on Time Travel Excerpts from BBC Horizon's The Time Lords (1996), in which Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne talk about how they came up with a scientifically plausible story element for Contact. User: loqi May 28, 2012 8:06 PM
Permanent Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 387 Comments: 2 Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard (1 of 6) Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live. In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared as ambush predators, have been released near to the busy town of Naples. In the Italian Alps, bears have been reintroduced after they became virtually extinct, and now try to get into people's homes in the middle of the night. And in Yellowstone National Park, wolves have been brought back 70 years after they were exterminated. Horizon meets the scientists behind this radical scheme, and the people who now have to share their backyards with these dangerous predators. User: spam_vigilante May 27, 2012 11:54 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1071 Comments: 0 Attenborough: Can the Earth Cope? Attenborough: Can the Earth Cope? From Horizon: How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? When the global population reaches 9 billion people, how will the Earth cope? Sir David Attenborough explores the changing demographics of Earth over the next 40 years. Thought provoking clip from the BBC's flagship science series Horizon. User: spam_vigilante Mar 9, 2012 1:42 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1779 Comments: 1 BBC Horizon: Playing God BBC Horizon: Playing God Broadcast (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 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 make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending 'biological machines' into our brains. User: spam_vigilante Feb 4, 2012 7:18 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 417 Comments: 0 Horizon: The Nine Months That Made You Horizon: The Nine Months That Made You 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. His theory has inspired a field of study that is revealing how our time in the womb could affect your health, personality, and even the lives of your children. First aired Sun 28 Aug 2011. RT 59:18. User: spam_vigilante Nov 27, 2011 12:39 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2221 Comments: 4 Horizon: The Core Horizon: The Core For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the Moon. Horizon follows scientists who are conducting experiments to recreate this core within their own laboratories, with surprising results. First aired on BBC Two, Wed 31 Aug 2011. RT 59:02. User: spam_vigilante Nov 26, 2011 12:37 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 1297 Comments: 10 Horizon - Are You Good Or Bad Part 1 Horizon - Are You Good Or Bad Part 1 The science of why some people become criminals and others do not. User: truth-is-the-nemesis Sep 10, 2011 9:09 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 537 Comments: 2 Horizon: T Rex, Warrior or Wimp? Horizon: T Rex, Warrior or Wimp? Tyrannosaurus rex - it's the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the teeth. Experts marvelled at the force of its bite - ten times more powerful than anything we know today. Moviemakers made millions out of the terror it inspired. But could our picture of this monster be completely wrong? Was T. Rex in fact a slow lumbering creature, with hideously bad breath, that couldn't get anywhere close to catching a Triceratops. Was it really a scavenger that lived off the scraps left by others? Was T. Rex, in fact, a wimp? Featuring fabulous graphics and interviews with T. Rex experts from around the world, Horizon looks at the new science that is challenging the legend of the dinosaur we love to hate. User: spam_vigilante Apr 24, 2011 10:34 AM
 
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