Horizon Season 2016

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2016x01 The Immortalist aired Mar 16, 2016

The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov r... read more

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2016x02 Project Greenglow: The Quest for Gravity Control aired Mar 23, 2016

This is the story of an extraordinary scientific adventure - the attempt to control gravity. For centuries, the precise workings of gravity have confounded t... read more

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2016x03 The Mystery of Dark Energy aired Mar 30, 2016

The effects of dark energy were discovered in 1998 but physicists still don't know what it is. Worse, its very existence calls into question Albert Einstein'... read more

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2016x04 Oceans of the Solar System aired Apr 06, 2016

The oceans define the earth. They are crucial to life and we used to think that they were unique to our blue planet. But we were wrong. It has recently been... read more

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2016x05 The End of the Solar System aired Apr 13, 2016

The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer ... read more

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2016x06 Should We Close Our Zoos? aired Apr 17, 2016

Liz Bonnin presents a controversial and provocative episode of Horizon, investigating how new scientific research is raising hard questions about zoos - the ... read more

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2016x07 How to Find Love Online aired Apr 25, 2016

Dr Xand Van Tulleken is single and looking for love. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry wants to use him as her guinea pig to test whether the algorithms that datin... read more

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2016x08 Ice Station Antarctica aired May 04, 2016

Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over three months of the ... read more

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2016x09 Curing Alzheimer's aired May 11, 2016

Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions of sufferers across the world. New scanning and gene technology is... read more

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2016x10 E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace? aired May 22, 2016

Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They're everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research on them reveal? Mi... read more

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2016x11 Why Are We Getting So Fat? aired Jun 07, 2016

Over 62% of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese and this figure is set to rise. A common attitude is that obese people should be ashamed - it ... read more

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2016x12 Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost? aired Jul 19, 2016

Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrative sponsorship d... read more

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2016x13 Inside CERN aired Aug 10, 2016

Horizon documents an extraordinary story in particle physics, following CERN's scientists as they hunt for the elusive signals that would prove if there is a... read more

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2016x14 My Amazing Twin aired Aug 25, 2016

The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are gen... read more

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2016x15 Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter aired Sep 11, 2016

Jimmy Carr takes over Horizon for a one-off special, to try to get to the bottom of what laughter is, why we enjoy it so much and what, if anything, it has t... read more

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2016x16 The Lost Tribes of Humanity aired Oct 12, 2016

We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the he... read more

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2016x17 The Wildest Weather in the Universe aired Oct 23, 2016

We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the he... read more

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2016x18 Duplicate of Episode 17 airdate unknown

We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the he... read more

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