Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor ourselves around the clock. How we exercise, how we sleep, even how we sit.
Some doctors are now prescribing apps the way they once prescribed pills. Kevin meets the pioneers of this ...
It is summer break and best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana hang together with the neighborhood teenagers. At night, they have fun sharing goosebumps stories and urban legends. But when Amélie is assaulted by her ex, she remembers the story of Kandisha, a powerful and vengeful demon. Afraid, upset, she summons her. The next day, her ex is found dead. The legend is true and n...
To help Prince Alex, who is currently trapped in the body of a mouse, become a human again, Ella and her friends set off on a journey to unlock the magic that can change him back… even though in changing fate, they may test their own. In the end, they find that friendship is the most powerful cure, in even the most difficult times.
Anna, hoping to escape from the disturbing past and find peace, escapes to a secluded mountain chalet. But the old life catches up with her even here. The house is bugged, which means Anna will have to return to her former life as an intelligence agent.
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......
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
Celo a young man from Papua, prompting his father to go look for the lost twin brother since childhood. Celo set off by following the instructions of the dream of his father who saw his twin brother were in the battlefield.