S2017 E1 • Miniverse

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the continental United States and place the planets along the way to better appreciate the immense scale of the Universe. See space as never before, with Mars looming over the Freedom Tower and Jupiter towering above the Lincoln Memorial. Join former astronaut Chris Hadfield - a YouTube sensation for his performance of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” aboard the International Space Station - and his interstellar hitchhikers Michio Kaku and astronomers Derrick Pitts and Laura Danly. It’s a joyride from coast to coast - and from the sun to Pluto.

S2017 E2 • Engadin: Switzerland's Wilderness

This documentary follows a spectacular pioneering story of nature preservation. Engadin was created 100 years ago and the wildlife left without human interference to re-populate the Alps first nature reserve. Now ibex, lynx and wolves are thriving in this pristine area.

S2017 E3 • Sky Hunters: The World Of The Dragonfly

With their dazzling metallic colors and unique ways of flying, dragonflies are truly jewels of the air. This film presents dragonflies as they have never been seen before. Fascinating close up shots take us into the world of these insects, which have lived on earth since the age of the dinosaurs.

S2017 E4 • Rosetta: Memories of a Comet

Join the members of the historic Rosetta mission through the years as they launch, wait and then deploy the lander onto the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Experience the dramatic highs and lows of the first mission to land a probe on a comet in space.

S2017 E5 • First Man

Which of the great primates of 25 million years ago is our common ancestor? Is it pierolapithecus? Follow the journey of primates developing into Homo erectus and then to Homo sapiens through the millions of years of evolution and the thousands of miles of migrations.

Première diffusion : 9 juin 2017

S2017 E6 • A Natural History of Laughter

Science Documentary hosted by John Temple, published by Icarus Films in 2014. This film explores recent scientific attempts to explicate laughter, this most elusive of human faculties. Scientists see it as a means of approaching some of the larger mysteries of neurology and human behavior. What does studying laughter reveal about our brains and about us as a species?

S2017 E7 • Our Violent Sun

Our Sun could erupt at any moment, spewing a vast wave of charged particles toward Earth that could leave millions of people without power for up to a year. Learn about the latest missions to protect our planet from this potentially devastating threat.

S2017 E8 • Escher's Infinite Perspective

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

S2017 E9 • Cassini: The Grand Finale

Twenty years after its launch, we bid farewell to the Cassini spacecraft as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere in a planned death spiral. Productive right to the end, Cassini has rewritten the textbook on not only Saturn and its moons, but our whole solar system as well.

S2017 E10 • Science Vs. God? : The Cosmos

Its origin shrouded in mystery, described with the precision of mathematics, there is nothing as impressive as the cosmos. Life on Earth is supported by forces finely tuned to an astonishing degree. So is it all luck? Or does the evidence suggest something more behind our ordered universe?

S2017 E11 • Science Vs. God? : Life and Evolution

The evidence for evolution is compelling. Indeed its achievements are so spectacular that they lead to underlying questions about why it is so successful if there is no over-arching plan. In this episode champions of the view that Darwin has buried God clash with their theistic counterparts.

S2017 E12 • Science Vs. God? : Mind and Consciousness

Human consciousness is the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe. Not only does it exist; it is sophisticated beyond understanding. The big issue: does the immaterial reality of human consciousness point to an immaterial mind behind the universe?

S2017 E13 • The Pray

S2017 E14 • Red Panda: World's Cutest Animal

Spend a year with a Red Panda named Tashi and experience her life in the forests underneath the Himalayas. Along the way, meet the other rare bird, insect and animal inhabitants of this remote lush area in Northern India, including the leopard. And if cute could get even cuter, meet Tashi's cub...

S2017 E15 • Worlds Best Dinosaur Fossil

An extraordinary new discovery of a dinosaur fossil so pristine and complete, that it shows off the texture, patterns, and colour of a prehistoric giant. Discover this brand new species that roamed during the late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta has spent five years and over 7,000 hours preparing the fossil for research and display.

S2017 E16 • Hamburg Port: Giant of the North

This is the story of Hamburg, Germany, one of the biggest harbors in the world. It is the story of merchants and pirates, of immigrants and soldiers. Traveling back to year 1189 and then continuing on to the present, this documentary describes the rise and fall of the Hanse, its development to a world harbour after the discovery of America and its rapid turnover of goods during the Industrial Revolution. With high-quality re-enactments, top experts’ interviews, rarely-seen archive material and the latest on computer animations, the correlation of world history up to the present time will be explained.

S2017 E17 • Nature's Mathematics: Episode 1

Wherever we find patterns and symmetry in nature, we also find that nature conforms to certain rules. Rules that combine elegance with efficiency. Rules that shape trees and river estuaries alike, and that continue to baffle scientists by their often unfathomable ubiquity.

S2017 E18 • Nature's Mathematics: Episode 2

Mathematical formulas can be found in the arrangement of seeds on a sunflower, the structure of the spirals in the shells of certain marine animals, and the distribution of leaves around a plant stem. These formulas recur in nature from snowflakes to the stripes on a zebra.

S2017 E19 • Building The Sun: The 250 Million Degree Problem

Scientists investigate the way the Sun builds its power -- through fusion -- hoping to find a way to use fusion as a less dangerous and less radioactive waste-producing path to energy than fission. But there are some major difficulties along the way...

S2017 E20 • Top Science Stories Of 2017

Take a look back at many of the most fascinating science stories of 2017, a year full of stunning advancements in individual fields of study, from astronomy to biology, geology to history – when we piece these discoveries together we see the year in a new light.

S2017 E20 • Episode 20

A science short by Sean Carroll, Modern physics reveals a universe with no need of a creator -- and a world where each person creates their own meaning.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 2018

S2017 E20 • Episode 20

Since 2003, human DNA has been completely decoded. Scientists are currently working on decoding all of the body's most basic proteins, the so-called Proteom code - this process is almost complete. From these results, scientists hope to discover new drugs against cancer, infections, and disease.

Première diffusion : 1 juin 2017

S2017 E21 • The Science Of Deception

What new methods of analysis have been developed in the age-old struggle to discover if someone is telling the truth...or not? Some scientists have gone beyond the polygraph to model other ways of detecting whether we are getting a straight answer or being led down a crooked path.

S2017 E22 • Birth of the Solar System

The birth of our Solar System was both violent and chaotic. As planets formed around our Sun, gravity and luck determined their fate: some are tossed into the Sun, others thrown into interstellar space, never to return. It is survival of the fittest, on an interplanetary scale.

Première diffusion : 30 décembre 2017

S2017 E20 • Episode 20

Was it genocide? Epidemics? Climate change? Interbreeding? Competitive replacement? In order to find out, this ambitious team examines the evidence as it would a criminal investigation. They take us around the world to forensic labs and explore the main regions Neanderthals inhabited.

Première diffusion : 23 mars 2018

S2017 E23 • A.I. and the Destiny of Mankind

A.I. is a primal force, like fire. The same fire that warms us can incinerate our homes; A.I. could enslave mankind — or, join us in a grand alliance to reach the stars.

S2017 E24 • Sherlock Holmes Against Conan Doyle

130 years after it was created by Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is a literary myth who turned out to be a fertile ground for inspiration beyond expectations. Despite Doyle's determination to escape his creature and forge a wider literary work he found himself trapped and overshadowed. The public of the time quickly embraced and shaped this character, to the extent that he was thought to be real and that people were asking Doyle to contact Holmes for help in their investigations. Find out the true story behind the myth and revisit a fascinating icon of our Times…which lives on…2017 is the year of the 130th anniversary of the first novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887.

S2017 E26 • The Hunt for Dark Matter

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive substance that physicists and astronomers believe holds the universe together -- dark matter. Where is this search now in the realm of particle physics and what comes next?

Première diffusion : 4 mai 2017

S2017 E27 • Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanets

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery of exoplanets that could be similar to our own. And as Kepler also continues its search, our understanding of the universe continues to be redefined.

S2017 E28 • The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World

Hidden from sight is a kingdom that rules life on land. It’s an alien world with the largest and oldest organisms alive today. Fungiform the 5th Kingdom of Life.

S2017 E29 • The Health of Our Oceans

Renowned marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle reveals why the dual threats of ocean pollution and overfishing could have a devastating impact on mankind.

Première diffusion : 14 juillet 2017