《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 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...

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...

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？

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...

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 ...

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。

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...

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。

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...

一个讲述了一群出生在地球上最寒冷最艰苦地区的特别的动物宝宝的感人故事.我们跟随这群难以置信的可爱勇敢的帝企鹅宝宝、雪猴宝宝、北极熊宝宝、北极狐宝宝、驯鹿宝宝和水獭宝宝去找寻如何在家人和朋友的帮助下在这个冰天雪地的世界安然度过第一个冬天的方法。

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。

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 ...

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。

这是一个时代的终结。在离开地球35年之后，“旅行者”号探测器终于即将飞离太阳系。这部引人入胜的纪录片取材于美国国家航空航天局和BBC档案中令人瞩目的镜头和图像资料，审视了这艘对我们宇宙认知带来深远影响的飞船的重大发现。《旅行者号探测器 冲出太阳系》讲述了一个令人难以置信的故事，旅行者号探测器本该仅仅持续5年，却至今仍在运行中，以及两艘彻底改变我们对太阳系认知的小型探测器。本片来自曾经为旅行者号工作过或受其启发过的科学家的贡献，评估了这次航天任务取得的成绩，并探究了未来将会发生些什么。

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。

Vanessa Engle 为了探索人类与狗的神奇关系，她花几个月时间在伦敦北部的Hampstead Heath公园采访遛狗的人们，提问为什么他们会有一只狗和他们的狗在他们的情感生活中发挥的作用。她所遇见的人都很乐意分享他们与狗的故事，其中好些故事很感人，令人惊讶和给人留下深刻的印象。 　　A film by Vanessa Engle exploring our remarkable relationship with dogs. Over a number of months in north London's Hampstead Heath, Engle approached people who were walking their dogs to discover why they have a dog and the role their d...

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, ...