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- Documentary series featuring various subjects related to science and technology.
- The program shows the exploits and day to day workings of the UK Border Agency and how they enforce immigration.
- Following the London Dog Squad's elite team of trainers and handlers day and night as they police the streets of the capital.
- For one of the most treacherous jobs in the world, it takes a special kind of person to become a salvage expert. Whether a rookie or an old hand, they must be brave, tenacious, have great technical skill and be committed to saving crews and cargo from meeting a premature and watery end.
- Just for a moment, imagine a universe awash with life, where we humans are not the only intelligent beings around. What might these alien races look like? Could we communicate with them, or even recognise them as intelligent? And what would they make of our violent and dangerous species? Might they take one look, and decide not to bother with such primitive beings? A planetary nursery filled with spiteful, galactic infants. On the other hand, in our imaginary scenario, they may enrich us with scientific knowledge beyond our imagination. Or could an encounter with aliens have a more destructive outcome? It could be a bad day for human kind. But relax, it's just make believe, it could never happen, could it? A mysterious crash in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1940s convinced many that our planet is being visited by space aliens. Crop circles in Britain have only added fuel to the fire. Few scientists doubt that life indeed exists elsewhere, but some believe we're more likely to make contact via radio waves. Join the search for extra-terrestrials and hear from scientists who think we are on the verge of making contact.
- The full history of the earth is boiled down to 12 hours on the clock. Within the first hour some 20 planets are formed from cosmic dust, they keep colliding, and our present planets are finalized, including our own moon. Minerals solidify on the cooling crust of the earth. Water is captured from space, and the first simple living organisms start working on changing the atmosphere. This is many "hours" before the dinosaurs. Humans emerge within the last minutes, but could theoretically live on earth as it was long before that.
- We all know forensics makes good TV-but does it make good science? Stricter legal standards, combined with the advent of DNA analysis, have exposed the shaky scientific foundations of a number of forensic techniques. NGC takes a hard look at some of the most venerable forensic disciplines, fire investigation and firearms analysis, and asks whether the methods that make such good TV also make good science.
- The history and a projection of the future of the Earth's land masses caused by continental drift is explain by the theory of plate tectonics.
- This "Roman Tech" episode illustrates a myriad of innovations the Romans developed before us: bikinis, strengthened concrete, sports arenas, central heating, window glass, double-paned windows, bathrooms, aqueducts providing clean tap water for a million citizens, sophisticated road systems, multi-story block apartments, surgical instruments, anesthetics and high-tech medical facilities.
- DNA evidence suggests that most of humanity was wiped out around 70,000 years ago by a catastrophic event.
- Faster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight million times every day. It is one of nature's most well observed events but also one of the most mysterious. To unlock its secrets, Naked Science follows a lightning bolt on its incredible journey from outer space to deep inside the human body. Australia's own Darwin is host to some of the most violent lightning storms on earth. Venture into the heart of a monster storm cloud to observe the mysterious forces that trigger a lightning bolt. Dramatic new research and shocking experiments reveal lightning is one of the strangest, most destructive and important phenomena on Earth.