Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley sets out to discover which if any of the tests are worth doing.
There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...
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The vitamin industry is worth more than £400million a year in the UK alone, but what are these pills actually doing for people's health? Dr Giles Yeo aims to find out, exploring if vitamin and mineral supplements are what they appear to be and putting people's diets to the test to find out if they really need these supplements. Those he meets include a scientist in Copenhagen, ...
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...
The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...
修建在南极布伦特冰架上的英国最尖端科学考察站哈利六号(Halley VI)遇到麻烦,巨大冰裂缝距离科考站只有6公里。本片讲述为价值近3千万英镑的哈利搬家的艰难工程。 Last year, Natalie Hewit documented the British Antarctic Survey’s attempt to drag Halley VI, its 981-tonne research station, 23km to a safer location as the Brunt ice shelf it stands on begins to break up. The “beakers” – the science folk – make up a small minority of those involved – there are ...
A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS. On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on eve...
For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials. In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic...
ADHD指注意缺陷多动障碍,又称多动症。英国著名喜剧演员Rory Bremner受到多动症的困扰,他采访医疗机构,尝试新药,了解ADHD背后的科学
Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.
去过伦敦自然历史博物馆的人肯定都知道里面的巨型恐龙的骨架。一个多世纪以来,它吸引了数百万的参观者来到博物馆,但是任何明星都会迎来他最终谢幕的一天,这副恐龙骨架也不例外。2015年初,自然历史博物馆的馆长对外宣布,这副占据了整个大厅的梁龙骨架就要退休了,取代它的将是一副蓝鲸的骨架... 两年过去了,大厅的新主人蓝鲸准备开门迎接来自世界各地的游客。
由众多科学家和工程师研发接近30年的“卡西尼号”太空探测器在经过长达近7年的漫长太空旅行之后,顺利进入环绕土星转动的轨道,开始对土星大气、光环和卫星进行历时4年的科学考察。卡西尼号”还携带了探测土星最大卫星土卫六的探测器,取名为“惠更斯号”。在探测任务20年后,卡西尼号土星探测器燃料将尽,科学家控制其向土星坠毁,在此之后,卡西尼号与地球失去联系,它进入土星大气层燃烧成为土星的一部分。在卡西尼号毁灭的最后一秒钟,它都坚守使命,往地球传输数据,最后才壮烈冲向大气层。
本片深入探究了给日本造成重创的地震与海啸背後的科学原理,本期节目将带领观众们随着地理学教授Roger Bilham的旅程,深入到震後仅数天後的日本。
惠灵顿的公爵在滑铁卢粉碎拿破仑两年之后,有来自一个印度当地土着的的新闻,内容是那里威胁到英国的利益。惠灵顿密令沙普调查,究竟他执行的是什么样的危险任务?将军和大英帝国的命运掌握在他的手里……
讲述一对因疫情封城而隔离在家的夫妻,开始重新审视自己以及两人的关系。
《地平线》栏目帮你发现宠物猫在猫门以外的生活。 这是一个开创性的实验,研究人员给在萨里郡的一个村庄50只猫戴上了标签与GPS项圈,并记录他们的白天黑夜在后院、花园围栏和灌木狩猎和巡逻的行踪。 此片开发了猫对这个世界的独特视野。你以为你足够了解自己的宠物猫?其实他们的秘密生活会让你惊讶。
Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more lasting effects on you today than your lifestyle or genes. It is one of the most powerful and provocative new ideas in human science, and it was pioneered by a British scientist, Professor David Barker. ...
Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. This film follows the men and women who are pushing the limits of science and engineering in some of the most ...
素食者史蒂芬(爱德华·霍格 Edward Hogg 饰)在室内蜗居一年,将过往的所有票据破烂都分门归类收集起来,直到储藏的所有素食盒饭都被老鼠毁掉,不得不出门为止。无法抗拒出门恐惧的史蒂芬从“螃蟹船长”连锁店叫了一份素菜烩外卖,回忆起一年前他和朋友邦尼(西蒙·法纳比 Simon Farnaby 饰)在赌马获胜后一起坐火车出游欧洲,在波兰遇到“螃蟹船长”店女招待埃洛伊莎(薇洛妮卡·恩切圭 Verónica Echegui 饰),三人共同结伴前往西班牙斗牛节的经历。路上史蒂芬屡次想向埃洛伊莎示爱,却没想到万人迷邦尼捷足先登,令史蒂芬困扰万分…… 本片是英国新锐导演保罗·金(Paul King)的电影处女作,获英国独立电影奖最佳制片奖,并获最佳技术成就奖提名。
They are the miracle pills that shouldn't really work at all. Placebos come in all shapes and sizes, but they contain no active ingredient. Now they are being shown to help treat pain, depression and even alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Horizon explores why they work, and how we could all benefit from the hidden power of the placebo.