作为一个物种，我们总认为自己很聪明，是理性动物，能做出理智的决定。但或许我们该重新思考一下。每当我们做决定时，我们的直觉和逻辑就会展开一场斗争，而直觉的力量常常超乎我们想象。这种冲突影响我们生活的方方面面，比如饮食、习惯、信仰等。我们对人类心智的理解将发生变革，丹尼尔?卡恩曼教授将对这场变革进行阐述

They are the miracle pills that shouldn't really work at all. Placebos come in all shapes and sizes, but they contain no active ingredient. Now they are being shown to help treat pain, depression and even alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Horizon explores why they work, and how we could all benefit from the hidden power of the placebo.

BBC纪录片《油糖陷阱》本片通过真人测试发现：单独吃糖或脂肪，短期内都可减轻体重；造成肥胖问题的根源是“糖油混合物”；不摄取糖分反而易得糖尿病

Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor ourselves around the clock. How we exercise, how we sleep, even how we sit. 　　Some doctors are now prescribing apps the way they once prescribed pills. Kevin meets the pioneers of this ...

There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? 　　In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...

BBC 电子游戏自诞生之日起，媒体与学界对其进行的争论就从未停息。有人说它使人成瘾，有人说它让人变得暴力……然而这些都是真的吗？电子游戏真的有那么坏吗？《地平线》将带你回顾三十年来学界对其进行的各项研究，从科学角度阐释电子游戏对人脑产生的影响，以及它可能为我们带来的益处。

Imagine a world where dinosaurs still walk the earth. A world where the Germans won World War II and you are president of the United States. Imagine a world where the laws of physics no longer apply and where infinite copies of you are playing out every storyline of your life. 　　It sounds like a plot stolen straight from Hollywood, but far from it. This is the multiverse. 　　Until v...

Most of us think that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is just over fussy tidying. But it's actually much more serious. Sophie has to check that she hasn't killed people, looking for dead bodies wherever she goes, Richard is terrified of touching the bin, and Nanda is about to have pioneering brain surgery to stop her worrying about components on her body - that her eyebrow ...

Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history. 　　Now, o...

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. 　　They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. 　　This film follows the men and women who are pushing the limits of science and engineering in some of the most ...

本部纪录片是BBC地平线系列推出的一档讲述人类的好朋友——狗狗的纪录片。人类和狗狗已经共同生活了一万两千多年，狗狗与人类的亲密程度远远胜过其他动物，它们就是我们日常生活的一部分。不过，除了这段共同度过的漫长岁月，我们对犬类朋友的真正了解又有多少呢？ 主持人达拉斯·坎贝尔一路翻查地平线系列档案，试图通过科学的方式找出我们是否应该改变我们对待他们的方式，用新思维和新方法来善待我们最好的朋友狗狗。从调查狗狗的原始狼性中，他发现人类对于犬类的演变起到了至关重要的影响。达拉斯探索着人类与犬类的紧密关系，以及我们该如何更好的利用和管理它们。 　　四十多年来，地平线节目和英国广播公司，一直致力于犬类本性的研究。

Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. 　　Despite appearances, Mosley is a pessimist who constantly frets about the future. He wants to worry less and become more of an optimist. 　　He tries out two techniques to change this aspect of his personality - with surprising results. 　　And he travels to the frontie...

爱丽斯·罗伯茨教授身怀着她的第二个孩子，她想在他出生之前探索“人之为人”这个问题。人类基因中有99%的部分是与黑猩猩相同的；然而从出生的那一刻起，人类的生活就完全不一样。所以，人类是否仅仅是一个普通的物种，抑或人类有特殊之处？ 　　爱丽斯教授探索了我们的身体结构、我们的基因、以及最终我们的大脑，试图发现什么终究造就了人类。

In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. 　　At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secret of making billions with maths. In South Africa, astronomers are attempting to catalogue the entire cosmos. These very different worlds are united by one thing - an extraordinary ...

Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and it is a lot more surprising than you might think. 　　There may a way to make food taste sweeter without adding any extra sugar and it is all down to a trick that happens in your brain. Horizon meets the scientist who has grown the perfect tom...

Dr Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. 　　He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and death decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fiel...

On a bright, cold morning on 15th February 2013, a meteorite ripped across the skies above the Ural mountains in Russia, distintegrating into three pieces and exploding with the force of 20 Hiroshimas. It was a stark reminder that the Earth's journey through space is fraught with danger. A day later another much larger 14,3000 tonne asteroid, passed within just 17,000 miles of ...

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。

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...

本部纪录片是BBC地平线系列推出的一档探讨“你是善良的还是邪恶的”为命题的纪录片。这个看似简单但却令人异常不安的问题，将由本片带你一同去寻找答案。摄制组采访了多位研究人员，他们一直在研究心理变态杀手的“邪恶”。然而并非像这些科学家预期的那样，这些在牢狱高墙背后，看似可怕的杀手就是“邪恶”的。吉姆·法伦教授一直致力于人脑中精神病迹象的研究，他发现这种标签化的定义太过主观和个人化。影片将进一步采访多位科学家，他们试图用全新的理念去重写大众心中对于道德审判下的罪与罚。 　　地平线系列纪录片是英国广播公司BBC制作的一档流行并且播放已久的科学纪录片，于1964年5月2日首播，到2013年为止已有49个系列超过1100集。本系列纪录片从历史、人文、宗教、地理、设计、艺术、生物、哲学、环保、伦理等多个方面，提供世界上最伟大科学家和哲学家一个可以交流他们看法和观点的平...

　　Banksy, the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts, and daring invasions outraged the establishment and created a revolutionary new movement while his identity remained shrouded in mystery.