Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are the tools most of us rely on perceiving the world. However, some people say it also can perceive things beyond the reach of conventional senses, through some other channel for which there is no anatomical or neurological explanation. Scientists who study the skills as we call extrasensory perception … Read more
Using computer graphics and fossil evidence, Evolutions shows nature’s survival of the fittest in action. This three-part series illuminates unique evolutionary journeys and strangers who have given birth to some of the world’s most amazing animals. In part one, The Walking Whale shows how 50 million years ago, a hungry land animal got into shallow … Read more
The History Channel’s How the Earth Was Made is a fascinating look at how the immense forces of geology have shaped our planet over millions of years. Featuring spectacular on-location footage, evidence from geological experts in the field and clear graphics, viewers will be taken on a journey around the world to explore some of … Read more
The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our world – the elements. From fire to match the brightness undefiled pure gold and the brightness of potassium violent, violet, everything is made of elements – the earth beneath our feet, the air we breathe, even for us. However, … Read more
Robert Klark Graham, an American millionaire optometrist, in order to save the world from the threat that genetic decline poses, tried to create a breed of highly gifted people and the result was ‘The Genius Sperm Bank’, officially named as the Repository for Germinal Choice. He tried to keep his operations covert by using an … Read more
Is there anything as infinity? Or is our universe infinite? How far does our space and universe spreads? There is never an answer how far the universe spreads. But science has been trying to find out the answer to the question for centuries. And it seems that we are still far away from an answer. … Read more
This two-section exploratory investigator story recounts the narrative of an amazing gathering of pioneers who needed to achieve a definitive great: supreme zero, a spot so icy that the physical world as we know it doesn’t exist, power streams without safety, liquids resist gravity and the rate of light can be decreased to 38 miles … Read more
Cracking the Colour Code draws on a range of disciplines and leading experts – including physicists, neurologists, artists, ethnologists, colour consultants, historians, artisans and marketing executives – each in some way intimately concerned with the nature and power of colour. Each gives us insights – even new discoveries – that will challenge our understanding of … Read more
SCIENTISTS HAVE COME UP WITH THIS EXTREMELY CLEVER IDEA TO TACKLE RHINO POACHING. Image credit Brett Blignout The Rhino is an animal that is fast becoming extinct. Poaching of these animals is rife and now scientists have come up with a fantastic way to combat this huge problem. Rhinos were once abundant throughout Asia and … Read more
Science is useful, but that’s not all what it is. Science can be exciting, thrilling, life-enhancing. Originally broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 in 1996, breaking the barrier of science follows the Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins as he meets people who have experienced the wonders of science firsthand. We meet the astronomer who discovered pulsars, the … Read more