Horizon - 2007-2008
Series exploring topical scientific issues
Horizon - 2007-2008 - Are we Alone in the Universe?
Science series. The search for alien life is 50 years old, but there's been a break through. A planet has been discovered that could support life.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone
Two-part special following an extraordinary team of climbing doctors on an expedition like no other to make scientific history and experience the ultimate in mountaineering.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - How Does Your Memory Work?
Science series. How does the human memory work? The stories of John and Genevieve are helping scientists to understand.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
Science series. A modern medical revolution has fuelled a market for body parts which has seen a cadaver sell for as much as $250,000.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - How to Kill a Human Being
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - How to Live to be 101
Topical science series. On a Japanese island and in places in California and in Sardinia, people live longer than anywhere else. Scientists try to find out why.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - How to Make Better Decisions
Topical science series. Decision making is not the rational process we imagine it to be. A mathematician shows how to make better decisions using sums.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - Is Alcohol Worse Than Ecstasy?
Science series. A team of scientists has spent two years analysing the effects of twenty widely used drugs. Is alcohol Britain's most dangerous drug?
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - Professor Regan's Supermarket Secrets
Probiotic, superfood, organic: what do all these labels mean, apart from more expensive? Professor Lesley Regan tests food products in the lab.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - The Six Billion Dollar Experiment
Science documentary about the proposed use of the Large Hadron Colider to yield the ultimate goal of physics, a theory of everything.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - Total Isolation
Series exploring topical scientific issues. Six people are taken to a nuclear bunker and subjected to a world without sensory stimulation.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
Both Einstein and Newton believed that gravity was powered by God. Dr Brian Cox experiments with gravity to see if he can find its meaning.
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Horizon - 2007-2008 - Where's My Robot?
Danny Wallace circumnavigates the globe searching for a robot that can walk and talk like him. He discovers that the robotics world is as weird as it is insanely complicated.
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