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The cosmos is another name we use for the Universe. Using that particular word implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity.The cosmos and our understandi...

China's middle class has developed a taste for "exotic" fruits. What's driving the massive demand and how are fruit-exporting countries bending over backwards to feed it?What are e...

For 500 years, Transylvania’s Gábor people have held onto their values and rituals. This film explores the insular world of the Gábor Roma, and asks whether they can maintain t...

For decades Denmark has been a symbol of the Scandinavian model and has prided itself on its high standard of living, its excellent social welfare system and its open-mindedness to...

Agro-mining is the process of growing plants that absorb metals from the ground. The science is solid, but will this innovation ever be scalable enough to reduce traditional, destr...

Sand Cats may not look the part, but they are built to handle the extremes of one of the harshest environments on Earth.The sand cat, also known as the sand dune cat, is a small wi...

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the sout...

Robots and machines could soon replace humans in the workplace as artificial intelligence improves. Imagine having colleagues controlled by computers.Society is facing radical chan...

Around the world, beaches are under threat. Severe storms and sea levels are rising. Huge quantities of sand are being washed away into the ocean.Even entire islands are in existen...

In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the ...

Vertical farming saves water, land, and energy — and it could be how we grow food on Mars.Vertical farming is a type of indoor farming where crops are grown in stacked layers, ra...

Neuromarketing is a controversial practice that involves studying consumers’ brains in order to influence our decisions.It’s based on the idea that 90% of the decisions we make...

Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision.So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and pieces ...

Why do we consume so much processed food and why are we so hooked on it? How does it mold our tastes, influence our cravings and feed our addictions?Food cravings arise to satisfy ...

Single mum Laura is constantly searching for symptoms of cancer on the internet since her father died from a brain tumor, and Kevin can't stop obsessing over the fear of HIV since ...

In this revealingly intimate documentary for BBC2, Adrian Chiles takes a long, hard look at his own love of boozing.He wants to find out why he and many others don't think they are...

In this short documentary, we talk to two bartenders (Uros and Rafael) who used to work in The Vault - a prestigious bar inside The Ned - a high-class London Hotel.They tell us abo...

70 years ago, once a single country was divided, and North Korea, together with the Soviet Union, began to build socialism. On the other hand, South Korea, together with the Americ...

Universities in Nigeria and Ghana have been plagued by stories of sexual harassment by lecturers and professors for decades.Allegations include a wide array of abuses, from blackma...

“I don’t give a fuck about the industry,” says a 25-year-old Kanye West nearly 17 minutes into JEEN-YUHS, the three-part documentary tracking his early career that Netflix pr...

In just 93 days, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution. Netflix documentary Winter on Fire brings you the story of Ukraine's fight for freedom...

Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children tells the story of three children trying to survive in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, a country which was once the jewel of Africa but where the infrastruc...

When Albert Einstein first published the Special Theory of relativity in 1905, he was ridiculed. People thought it was just too weird and radical to be real. Einstein wasn’t sati...

Thirty-five years ago string theory took physics by storm, promising the coveted unified theory of nature’s forces that Einstein valiantly sought but never found.In the interveni...