The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with his provocative works. In 2013, Hirschhorn built...

New discoveries reveal the deadly secrets of the Bermuda Triangle as experts use cutting-edge science and technology to investigate the strange disapp...

Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties.

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-...

CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm and science's answer to the Tower of Babel, with i...

The Curiosity rover is seeking environments on Mars that could support life—or could have in the past. Earlier Mars missions found signs of water, but...

Astronomers have located more than 1,000 planets orbiting stars other than our own, and the latest observations are starting to reveal what these plan...

At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Iliana Nossa studies the ionosphere. This short films tells the story of Columbian researcher Iliana Nossa as s...

Where did the universe come from and did a creator have a hand in making it? As scientists learn more about the universe, our ideas about exactly what...

Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only in...

Alessandra Pacini, solar physicist and mother of two, has dedicated her life to researching our sun and its relation to the rest of our solar system....