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...

《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。

Horizon: The Truth About Looking Young Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your skin look younger without surgery. She discovers the latest research about how the foods we eat can protect our skin from damage, and how a chemical found in a squid's eye is at the forefront of a new ...

Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days time, the nuclear-powered vehicle - the size of a car - will be winched down onto the surface of the Red Planet from a rocket-powered crane. That's if things go according to plan: Mars has become known as the Bermuda Triangle of space because...

癌细胞是细胞变异产生的错误结果，一旦无法摧毁，则会分裂扩散，这是人类作为细胞生物所要承受的痛苦之一。目前有效抗癌的手段只有射线疗法，但科学家们一直在此领域上研究，并取得了一定进程。

我们做的锻炼大部分是无效的？运动能消耗多少卡路里？去除脂肪的最佳方法是什么？一周只锻炼三分钟就够了？久坐真的是健康杀手吗？Michael Mosley通过亲身实践，得出了一些关于锻炼的惊人真相，帮助人们走出误区，获得健康长寿。

Surgeon Gabriel Weston 为我们寻找变胖的真相。

有位年轻人要去查明究竟自己的大脑发生了什么，使他变成了一个完全不同的人。21岁时的克里斯本是个魁梧的英式橄榄球运动员，绝对直男；然而一场意外却激发了他大脑中的某些地方，当他恢复后，一个崭新的克里斯出现了。今天他仍然居住在原来的威尔士村庄中，却变成了一个苗条的同性恋发型师，对时尚和室内装饰感兴趣。这种彻底的改变令他的家庭产生了裂隙，亲戚们正在努力接受他的新身份，纷纷疑惑这种转变是怎样发生的。本纪录片追随了克里斯寻找问题答案、与医学专家及其他曾有过类似出乎意料的个性转变的人们进行交谈的过程。克里斯能重新凝聚他的家庭吗？他能查明自己的大脑究竟发生什么事了吗？而且现在他已经和男友同居了，他能保证自己不会“复原”，变回到原来的自己吗？

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 ...

Horizon plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the Universe. 　　It is a journey where things don't just become smaller but also a whole lot weirder. Scientists hope to catch a glimpse of miniature black holes, multiple dimensions and even parallel Universes. As they start to explore this wonderland, where nothing is quite what it seems, ...

Horizon goes behind the scenes at CERN to follow one of the most epic and expensive scientific quests of all time: the search for the Higgs particle, believed to give mass to everything in our universe. 　　However, the hunt for Higgs is part of a much grander search for how the universe works. It promises to help answer questions like why we exist and is a vital part of a Grand Un...

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...

人们总说宇宙很大，但是它到底有多大？科学家制定了一项雄心勃勃的计划，要画出一幅完整的宇宙地图。然而在可观测宇宙中，有1700亿个类似银河系的星系，不单这些星系在移动，整个宇宙也并非静止不动，甚至有科学家认为，在我们的宇宙以外，还存在着无数个宇宙。究竟宇宙有多大？怎样才能画出它的全貌？研究人员借助最先进的天文观测设备，调动整个小镇的普通居民展开人工作业，以事实验证前人的理论，并得出了震惊世界的结论。

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,...