Chasing Einstein

Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehist...

The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecc...

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimenta...

The Scorpions belong to the oldest land-based arachnides with over 1800 different species known to e...

Is building our own starship Enterprise possible? Will we ever travel between the stars as easily as...

Astronomers have located more than 1,000 planets orbiting stars other than our own, and the latest o...

The inside story of SpaceX's plan to get humanity to Mars, providing an unprecedented glimpse into o...

The Curiosity rover is seeking environments on Mars that could support life—or could have in the pas...

The icy South Pole desert is a harsh and desolate landscape in which few life-forms can flourish. Bu...

In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, Mark Miodownik reveals the weird...

CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

In 1989, Bob Lazar came forward with an incredible story: He had been recruited by the US government...

Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; Jame...

Documentary-maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original fi...

A documentary that explores the natural world of the sea, from the single-celled organism to more co...

THE BRAIN is an astonishing voyage of discovery into our last biological frontier. Although today s...

Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...