Horizon (1964)

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…

Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days t…

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 t…

Cosmologists talk about their project to create a map of everything in existence, and also reveal that their research has some highly unexp…

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…

Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacteria that are becomin…

It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, sc…

A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. He…

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 - an…

In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the ci…

Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap. In a groundbreaking experiment, 50 cats from a village in Su…

50 cats were fitted with GPS collars to track their every movement, and cat-cams to record their unique view of the world. In this groundbr…

Iain Stewart investigates a new and controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground. Sometimes, this is right under th…

This summer, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is getting ready to feast. A gas cloud three times the size of our planet has st…

Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out w…

Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances,…