Season 51
(2024)
Cast
Episodes
When Whales Could Walk 0.0
January 31, 2024
In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This …
Easter Island Origins 0.0
February 7, 2024
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arri…
Building the Eiffel Tower 0.0
February 14, 2024
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 Wor…
Hunt for the Oldest DNA 0.0
February 21, 2024
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA milli…
A.I. Revolution 0.0
March 27, 2024
A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? From cancer cures…
Great American Eclipse 0.0
April 3, 2024
Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon's shadow is sweeping from T…
Secrets in Your Data 0.0
May 15, 2024
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find ou…
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos 0.0
May 22, 2024
How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind…
Solar System: Storm Worlds 0.0
October 2, 2024
Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and ligh…
Solar System: Strange Worlds 0.0
October 9, 2024
From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spe…
Solar System: Volcano Worlds 0.0
October 16, 2024
All around our solar system, volcanoes are powerful shapers of worlds. Next door on Mars is Olympus Mons, a giant volca…
Solar System: Icy Worlds 0.0
October 23, 2024
Ice might seem familiar to us on Earth, but out in the solar system, it can get quite exotic. From Uranus’s ultra hot s…
Solar System: Wandering Worlds 0.0
October 30, 2024
The classic view of our solar system contains eight orderly planets, some with moons in neat orbits – but when we look …
Decoding the Universe: Quantum 0.0
November 6, 2024
When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird. Welcome to the q…
Building Stuff: Boost It! 0.0
November 13, 2024
Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and …
Building Stuff: Reach It! 0.0
November 20, 2024
From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve imagined and i…
Building Stuff: Change It! 0.0
November 27, 2024
Thousands of years of human innovation have allowed us to shape the environment to improve lives. The consequences of o…
Lost Tombs of Notre Dame 0.0
December 18, 2024
After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone…