Horizon Season 2011

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2011x01 What is One Degree? aired Jan 10, 2011

Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature? His quest takes... read more

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2011x02 What is Reality? aired Jan 17, 2011

There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of ... read more

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2011x03 Science Under Attack aired Jan 24, 2011

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded - from the... read more

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2011x04 The Secret World of Pain aired Jan 31, 2011

Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. Breakthroughs have come from studying a remarkabl... read more

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2011x05 Surviving a Car Crash aired Feb 07, 2011

Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A remarkable fusion of mechanical engineering and biology promises to sa... read more

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2011x06 How to Mend a Broken Heart aired Feb 14, 2011

Dr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend your heart if it stops working. He meets some of the people who have undergone pioneer... read more

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2011x07 Are We Still Evolving? aired Mar 01, 2011

Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions about our species: are we still evolving? There's no doubt that we're a product of millions of years of evol... read more

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2011x08 Predators in Your Backyard aired Mar 08, 2011

Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live. In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared... read more

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2011x09 Do You See What I See? aired Aug 08, 2011

Documentary exploring the impact of colours on people's lives, and how perceptions of them can be influenced by age, gender and mood. The programme exami... read more

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2011x10 Seeing Stars aired Aug 15, 2011

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of ... read more

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2011x11 The Nine Months That Made You aired Aug 22, 2011

Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the wom... read more

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2011x12 The Core aired Aug 31, 2011

For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our f... read more

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2011x13 Are You Good or Evil? aired Sep 07, 2011

What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. Horizon meets the researchers wh... read more

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2011x14 Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe? aired Sep 14, 2011

Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nucl... read more

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