Horizon (1964)

In a film that is in turns charming, disturbing and poignant, Horizon explores the relationship between science and the chimpanzee. It bega…

With the help of doctors and scientists in America, Germany and Britain, Horizon unpicks the mystery of the Moscow theatre siege. In Octobe…

This is the truth about the world's most famous, most glamorous and most controversial diet. The Atkins diet says that eating fat can make…

This is the extraordinary story of how a small metal disc is rewriting the epic saga of how civilisation first came to Europe, 3600 years a…

Imagine a world where disease could be eradicated by an injection of tiny robots the size of molecules. That is the hope offered by nanotec…

Thalidomide was one of the biggest medical tragedies of modern times. The images of children born with shrunken limbs still haunt anyone wh…

Top quality diamonds at knock down prices? The only catch is: these rocks don't come out of the ground, but are made in a lab. This is the…

Tyrannosaurus rex - it's the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the…

This is the story of two genuine scientific heroes. For forty years, John Bahcall and Ray Davis were engaged in a single extraordinary expe…

It's one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. In May t…

Every year we spend £300 million on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do us any good? Some believe they offer the promise of preven…

Is Wednesday red? Take part in our experiment to test whether your senses overlap. Do melodies have a colour? Take part in our experiment t…

Until recently most scientists thought they knew what killed off the dinosaurs. A 10km-wide meteorite had smashed into the Yucatan peninsul…

In the mid-1990s, a team of American science students took on the might of the Las Vegas casinos, and came home with millions of dollars. H…

In 1610, Galileo used a new invention -- a simple telescope -- to look at Saturn. When he viewed the planet for the first time, he saw some…