2012-2013
(2012)
Cast
Episodes
The Truth About Looking Young 0.0
July 23, 2012
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is p…
Mission to Mars 0.0
July 30, 2012
Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of…
Eat, Fast and Live Longer 0.0
August 6, 2012
Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bar…
How Big Is the Universe? 0.0
August 27, 2012
Cosmologists talk about their project to create a map of everything in existence, and also reveal that their research h…
How Small Is the Universe? 0.0
September 3, 2012
Horizon plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the Universe. It is a journe…
Defeating the Superbugs 0.0
September 10, 2012
Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacte…
The Creative Brain: How Insight Works 0.0
March 14, 2013
It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new ide…
How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery 0.0
March 21, 2013
A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the op…
The Truth about Taste 0.0
March 28, 2013
Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love …
The Age of Big Data 0.0
April 4, 2013
In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. A…
The Secret Life of the Cat 0.0
June 13, 2013
Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap. In a groundbreaking experiment, 50 cats…
Little Cat Diaries 0.0
June 14, 2013
50 cats were fitted with GPS collars to track their every movement, and cat-cams to record their unique view of the wor…
Fracking: The New Energy Rush 0.0
June 19, 2013
Iain Stewart investigates a new and controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground. Sometimes, th…
Swallowed by a Black Hole 0.0
June 26, 2013
This summer, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is getting ready to feast. A gas cloud three times the size…
What Makes us Human? 0.0
July 3, 2013
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she…
The Truth About Personality 0.0
July 10, 2013
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. …