Hawking joins science and imagination to explore one of the most important mysteries facing humankind - the possibility of alien, intelligent life and the likelihood of future "contact."
The promise of time travel has long been one of the world's favorite scientific "what-ifs?" Hawking explores all the possibilities, warping the very fabric of time and space as he goes.
1997 • Science
In two mind-blowing hours, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation.
1997 • Physics
Using new imaging technology, Richard Hammond journeys beyond the visible spectrum.
Brian Cox tackles the question that unites Earth's seven billion people - why are we here?
2/5 • Human Universe • 2014 • Science
The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body.
5/6 • The Story of Science • 2010 • Science
How do we learn properly so we can be right all the time? How can we know that we know, when we don't know what we don't know?
This Place • 2015 • Science
Comedian Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for this one-off special programme, produced as part of BBC2's sitcom season. Jimmy turns venerable documentary strand Horizon into a chat show, with eminent laughter scientists as guests and a studio audience to use as guinea pigs. Jimmy and his guests try to get to the bottom of what laughter is, why we enjoy it so much and what, if anything, it has to do with comedy. Between them, and with the help of contributions from other scientists on film, Jimmy and guests discover that laughter is much older than our species, and may well have contributed to making us human. With professors Sophie Scott, Robin Dunbar and Peter McGraw.
