Changes to the bacteria that live inside all of us are responsible for increasing the number of people with allergies, suggests new research.
In this episode of Horizon, the show investigates this claim by conducting a unique experiment with two allergic families in order to find out just what it is in the modern world that is to blame. With a raft of mini cameras, GPS units an...
年轻的X教授查尔斯(詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰)和万磁王埃里克(迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰)是一对志向相投的好朋友。他们最早发现了自己的超能力,并与其他几个变种人一起在CIA工作。引发埃里克超能力的纳粹战争贩子肖(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)一直试图挑起核战争,而想方设法挑起美苏两国的矛盾。埃里克和查尔斯一直与肖手下的变种人战斗,努力阻止肖的阴谋。肖怂恿苏联引发古巴导弹危机,查尔斯和埃里克获知消息后,在海湾与肖手下的变种人拉开了对决的一战。最终,肖被查尔斯和埃里克合力消灭。可是,在这个过程中,埃里克逐渐被肖的政治观点影响,与查尔斯产生裂痕。通过海湾的这一战,埃里克和查尔斯最终决裂,一方变成支持人类与变种人和平共存的X教授;另一方坚持通过消灭人类换来变种人兴起的观点,自称万磁王.........
Two gangsters are given 72 hours to discover the whereabouts of a stash of drug money stolen by their boss. There's only one problem...they just murdered him. Frantic to find the cash, the hapless criminals kidnap a psychic medium and force her to contact the dead gang boss. Unfortunately for them, they only succeed in unleashing an evil spirit bent on revenge.
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 collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. A mysterious bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that ...
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 some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly ...
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently.
New research suggests that the connections in men and women's brains follow different patterns, patterns which may explain typical forms of male and female behaviour. But are these patterns innate, or are they shaped by the world around us?
Using a team of human lab...
Kiran, a 1st-generation Punjabi trucker and anxious dad-to-be, stumbles across Elena, a 9-year-old undocumented Mexican-American, who changes his expectations of family as he takes her cross-country to find home.
Paris, summer 1942. Irene is Jewish and French. She is 19 and living a life of passions - Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress - Nothing suggests that Irene's time is running out.
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 share the same genetic disease, Neurofibromatosis 1 (Nf1) - yet they are completely different. Adam's face is covered with growths, whereas Neil has none. Neil has short-term memory loss, whereas...
This episode looks at the issues that will change the way we live our lives in the future. Rather than relying on the minds of science fiction writers, mathematician Hannah Fry delves into the data we have today to provide an evidence-based vision of tomorrow. With the help of the BBC's science experts - and a few surprise guests - Hannah investigates the questions the British ...