Where to Watch 地平线 • 2016
16 Episodes
- 永生者
第 1 集永生者这是一个扣人心弦的故事，讲述了一位俄罗斯互联网百万富翁如何转向尖端科学，试图解开永生的秘密。德米特里·伊斯科夫最近召集了一些世界领先的神经科学家、机器人制造商和意识研究人员，试图设计一个系统，让他逃脱自己的生物命运。进入德米特里看似科幻的世界，地平线调查了真正的科学，激发了他将人类思维上传到计算机的大胆计划。有一些怀疑者，比如一位主要的神经科学家，他告诉我们“这太愚蠢了，根本做不到”。但当我们也遇到了世界上最像人类的机器人之一Erica的日本制造商，他告诉我们人类的命运是成为机器人来克服时间的限制，看看一个四肢瘫痪的加州人是如何用他的思想控制机器人手臂的，并探索世界上最大的神经科学项目——60亿美元的美国大脑倡议——背后的科学家的突破性工作。他告诉我们，绘制大脑所有活动图的努力可能是朝着大脑上传迈出的关键一步。Horizon问道，认为Dmitry Itskov能在30年内成功实现为我们所有人带来永生的目标真的太疯狂了吗？ - 我们该关了动物园吗？
第 6 集我们该关了动物园吗？利兹·波宁（Liz Bonnin）在《地平线》（Horizon）中呈现了一个有争议和挑衅性的情节，调查了新的科学研究是如何提出关于动物园的难题的——这部电影探讨了动物园如何以及为什么饲养动物，以及它们是需要改变以跟上现代科学的步伐，还是最终被载入历史。 动物园应该扑杀动物来管理种群吗？利兹前往哥本哈根动物园，动物园杀死了一只长颈鹿并将其喂给狮子，亲眼目睹了它们的扑杀过程。他们认为这是动物园管理的一个自然部分，经常被掩盖。有些动物永远不应该被圈养吗？在一篇世界独家报道中，Liz访问了佛罗里达州的海洋世界，并询问圈养是否驱使他们的一只逆戟鲸杀死了他的驯兽师。 但动物园能成为保护濒危物种的答案吗？Liz检查了他们的记录，从帮助野外繁殖大熊猫到拯救犀牛。她遇到了最后幸存的北方白犀牛之一，并发现这个物种的未来现在取决于一项数百万美元的计划，即用干细胞改造它们。资深保护科学家Sarah Bexell博士告诉Liz，圈养繁殖的科学给了人类虚假的希望。 - 南极冰上科考站
第 8 集南极冰上科考站Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over three months of the year, the sun never rises. But it's also home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station. A veteran of living and working at Halley in the early eighties, BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to the place he once called home. A place that, during his time, was key to the discovery of the ozone hole. The journey starts with an arduous 12-day, 3000-mile voyage onboard the RRS Ernest Shackleton. Once on the ice shelf, Peter is delighted to finally arrive at the futuristic research station and marvels at the cutting edge science being done at Halley today. From vital discoveries about how our lives are vulnerable to the sun's activities, to studying interplanetary travel and the threat of man-made climate change. But Peter's journey is also something of a rescue mission. The research station's home is a floating ice shelf that constantly moves and cracks, and the ice shelf has developed a chasm that could cast Halley adrift on a massive iceberg. - 治愈阿尔茨海默病
第 9 集治愈阿尔茨海默病Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions of sufferers across the world. New scanning and gene technology is allowing scientists to identify the disease at its earliest stages, often 15 years before symptoms appear and the brain cells are destroyed. A series of new drugs trials in Colombia, the USA and Europe are showing startling success in reducing beta amyloid, the protein which is a hallmark of the disease. It is also becoming clear that changes in lifestyle can prevent the development of the disease. A new system inside the brain has been discovered which clears amyloid when we are in deep sleep, but allows it to accumulate if we don't sleep well. The programme reveals that for sufferers in the early stages of the disease, brain connections, or synapses, can be strengthened and even replaced by absorbing enough of the right nutrients. A UK-wide trail helps sufferers in the early stages to concentrate on improving everyday tasks, and in the process not only make their lives easier, but helps to reactivate the planning and organisational parts of the brain. In an aging world, where the biggest risk of developing Alzheimer's is old age, the scientific breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease are bringing hope where once there was despair. - 我们为什么胖
第 11 集我们为什么胖Over 62% of adults in the UK are currently overweight or obese and this figure is set to rise. A common attitude is that obese people should be ashamed - it is their fault, they have no will power and if they could just 'eat less and exercise more', the problem would soon be solved. Yet, despite millions of pounds being spent on this simple message, the UK is getting fatter every year. Cambridge geneticist Dr Giles Yeo believes that for many obese people, simply eating less is a lot harder than you might think - and he is taking a road trip around the UK and America to uncover why. He meets the real people behind some of the more shocking newspaper headlines and, through their stories, reveals surprising truths which dispel commonly held myths about obesity. He gains access to scientists and doctors trialling cutting-edge techniques to tackle the crisis - from a 'miracle' hormone injection to a transfusion of faecal matter, and even learns a thing or two about his own size and relationship with food. - 体育兴奋剂 - 为了胜利不惜一切？
第 12 集体育兴奋剂 - 为了胜利不惜一切？Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrative sponsorship deals to the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK now regularly taking anabolic steroids to look good and buff up. What are these drugs? What do they do to the body? And is it worth it? Xand's investigation reveals the extraordinary gamble dopers take with their health. Long-term effects include kidney failure, cognitive impairment and testicular shrinkage, and Xand witnesses how users are self-experimenting with drugs that have not yet been approved for human use. Horizon uncovers the new frontier of doping, from new molecules to gene therapy - where the genes that control muscle growth are altered. These new methods could be completely undetectable by the doping authorities. Finally, with the help of his twin brother Chris, Xand discovers the legal ways some athletes try to gain the edge. - 深入欧洲核子研究中心
第 13 集深入欧洲核子研究中心BBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. An enigmatic bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that could change our understanding of how the universe works. - 我的神奇双胞胎
第 14 集我的神奇双胞胎The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are genetically identical and both share the same genetic disease, Neurofibromatosis 1 (Nf1) - yet they are completely different. Adam's face is covered with growths, whereas Neil has none. Neil has short term memory loss, whereas Adam is razor sharp. How can the same genetic disease affect identical twins so differently? Adam is on the cusp of a successful film and television career, but the disease has left tumours on his face that are growing out of control and he could lose his sight. For years, everyone thought Adam's brother Neil had escaped symptoms, but today his life is governed by epilepsy and a mysterious memory loss that suddenly came on during his teens. Determined to save their future, Adam tries to find out why the disease affects the twins so differently and see if there is anything he can do to stop it from tearing their lives apart. - 宇宙中最恶劣的天气
第 16 集宇宙中最恶劣的天气We love talking about the weather - is it too hot or too cold, too wet or too windy? It's a national obsession. Now scientists have started looking to the heavens and wondering what the weather might be like on other planets. Today, we are witnessing the birth of extra-terrestrial meteorology, as technology is allowing astronomers to study other planets like never before. They began with our solar system, sending spacecraft to explore its furthest reaches, and now the latest telescopes are enabling astronomers to study planets beyond our solar system. Our exploration of the universe is revealing alien worlds with weather stranger than anyone could ever have imagined - we've discovered gigantic storm systems that can encircle entire planets, supersonic winds, extreme temperatures and bizarre forms of rain. On some planets, the temperatures are so hot that the clouds and rain are believed to be made of liquid lava droplets, and on other planets it is thought to rain precious stones like diamonds and rubies. We thought we had extreme weather on Earth, but it turns out that it is nothing compared to what's out there. The search for the weirdest weather in the universe is only just beginning.
