2009-2010
Series exploring topical scientific issues
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Horizon
Horizon asks whether eating cooked food prompted changes that helped humanity evolve.
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Addiction expert John Marsden explores our relationship with alcohol.
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Looking at discoveries which suggest ageing is something flexible that can be manipulated.
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Three people with untreatable conditions see if, within their lifetime, they can be cured.
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Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string?
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Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world faces a population crisis.
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Investigating the discovery of what is ominously being called 'dark flow'.
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How much is really known about the medicines we take, and can they be trusted to work?
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How research into dogs is giving scientists a greater understanding of human behaviour.
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The search for answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are?
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How infinity is older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction.
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A professor of mathematics asks if geniuses' brains are fundamentally different from his.
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What was there before the Big Bang? Black holes could hold the answer.
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Horizon follows researchers attempting to unravel the many secrets of viruses.
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Horizon investigates speech, a phenomenon unique to humans, which remains a mystery.