Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence. 　　His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape. 　　Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a super computer bea...

在这部即将开播的BBC2全新史诗级6集1小时电视剧中，西蒙·里夫将踏上迄今为止最奇特、最极端的冒险之旅，环游美丽的印度洋海岸。旅程从南非出发，西蒙环游印度洋海岸，北上非洲东海岸，绕过印度，再沿印度尼西亚西海岸返回澳大利亚西南部。这场非凡的冒险之旅带领西蒙游历了16个国家，他勇敢面对了索马里摩加迪沙——或许是地球上最危险的地方——前线冲突的恐怖，并造访了美丽的马尔代夫、毛里求斯和塞舌尔。

This film follows the story of giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang, who arrived in the UK to great fanfare in December 2011. David Tennant narrates as Edinburgh Zoo's vet and head keeper travel to China to see how giant pandas are looked after in their homeland. Head keeper Alison also visits a remote panda reserve in Wolong to witness the efforts to reintroduce giant pandas ...

Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. 　　It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. 　　This technology is already being used to m...

We all like to think we are in control of our lives - of what we feel and what we think. But scientists are now discovering this is often simply an illusion. 　　Surprising experiments are revealing that what you think you do and what you actually do can be very different. Your unconscious mind is often calling the shots, influencing the decisions you make, from what you eat to who...

戴维·施皮格尔哈尔特教授试图弄清机会到底是什么，以及它在现实世界中是如何运作的。他用独特的讲故事方法，将智慧、动画、图形和令人愉快的书呆子精神融合在一起，讲述了机会的乐趣和概率的奥秘。它是数学的一个重要分支，它根据过去的事件告诉我们未来可能发生的事情。

注射美容的使用量激增，但接受治疗的人对这些抗皱注射到底了解多少？克尔斯滕?奥?布莱恩将拜访多位顶级专家，了解肉毒杆菌和真皮填充物的效果到底如何，分析这些美容治疗可能带来的风险。她将见到一位使用注射治疗的青少年。

《地平线》Horizon由BBC制作，至今已经播出了五十季，一千多集。“地平线节目的目标是提供世界上最伟大的科学家和哲学家一个可以交流他们的好奇、观察和看法的平台，并将他们对世界的新看法引入到我们的日常知识。” 　　 　　本期所讲肥胖是现代人类最大的敌人。那么节食是否会带来健康与长寿，这一直是人们迫切希望得到答案的问题。《BBC地平线：节食与长寿》从几个简单的例子来验证，表达出科学合理的节食对健康有益的观点。感兴趣的朋友可以下载来看看。

Something weird seems to be happening to our weather - it appears to be getting more extreme. 　　In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country have experienced intense droughts and torrential floods. It is a pattern that appears to be playing out across the globe. Hurricane chasers are recording bigger storms and in Texas,...

Surgeon Gabriel Weston 为我们寻找变胖的真相。