Origins of Altruism • 2019 • episode "5/8" • Stories of Impact

58:18

Using new imaging technology, Richard Hammond journeys beyond the visible spectrum.

2/3 • Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds • Science

58:49

In part two, Professor Al-Khalili looks at the 19th century chemists who struggled to impose an order on the apparently random world of the elements. From working out how many there were to discovering their unique relationships with each other, the early scientists' bid to decode the hidden order of the elements was driven by false starts and bitter disputes. But ultimately the quest would lead to one of chemistry's most beautiful intellectual creations - the periodic table.

S1E2 • Chemistry: A Volatile History • 2010 • Science

49:39

How does the cloud above your head connect to the cloud that stores your data? The answer involves a shipwreck and a shark-proof garden hose.

S1E5 • Connected - The Hidden Science of Everything • 2020 • Science

11:40

How does altruism begin. Is it biological? Is it taught? Researchers are trying to understand the DNA of altruism by studying toddlers.

5/8 • Stories of Impact • 2019 • Science

2:41

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

The Feynman Series • 2015 • Science

55:04

Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. New evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks-some even 1,700 years before him! Of these “inventions” Leonardo never affirmed that his projects came from his original ideas. The film features drawings of his most famous ideas and inventions some of which trace their original creation to ancient Greece while others were a product of the scientific inventions of golden age of Islamic learning. This knowledge seemed to be lost in Europe during the Dark Ages until the Renaissance when Leonardo recovered it.

Secrets of the Dead • 2017 • Science