Horizon - 2010-2011
Series exploring topical scientific issues
Horizon - 2010-2011 - Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - Back from the Dead
Dr Kevin Fong investigates a pioneering technique of extreme cooling that is being used to bring people back from the dead. He meets the doctors who developed the procedure.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story
The story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves - a crisis that became America's worst environmental disaster.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - Is Seeing Believing?
Topical science series. The programme explores the wonderful world of illusions, revealing the tricks they play on our senses, why they fool us and the biology behind them.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome
Horizon follows three people, each with a genetic disease, as they visit Britain's leading research labs to find out what the sequencing of the human genome has done for them.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - The Death of the Oceans?
Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of an investigation into what is happening to our oceans, and looks at whether it is it too late to save their remarkable biodiversity.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - What Happened Before the Big Bang?
This episode of the science series explores a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.
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Horizon - 2010-2011 - What is One Degree?
Ben Miller investigates scientific accuracy. He meets researchers working with extremes of temperature, and experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics.
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