Corby镇出现多名天生四肢畸形缺陷的新生儿,调查发现可能与当地污染废料有关。
在捷克共和国,有一群女性在不知情或被强迫的情况下做了绝育手术,只因为他们罗姆人的身份。罗姆人,通常被外族称作吉普赛人,遍布世界各地,因其特殊的生活方式而受到歧视和迫害。由于在欧洲兴起的优生运动,共产主义期间的捷克共和国颁布法令,通过绝育来限制罗姆人的数量。而这种行为和歧视一直被延续至今,仍有许多罗姆女性表示被强迫做了绝育手术,但同时也有人宣称她们是为了拿到钱才同意绝育。为了反抗这种侵犯人权的行为,一些受害女性团结起来,在全世界范围内为罗姆女性的权益而奋斗。在捷克共和国,有一群女性在不知情或被强迫的情况下做了绝育手术,只因为他们罗姆人的身份。罗姆人,通常被外族称作吉普赛人,遍布世界各地,因其特殊的生活方式而受到歧视和迫害。由于在欧洲兴起的优生运动,共产主义期间的捷克共和国颁布法令,通过绝育来限制罗姆人的数量。而这种行为和歧视一直被延续至今,仍有许多罗姆...
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。
They are the miracle pills that shouldn't really work at all. Placebos come in all shapes and sizes, but they contain no active ingredient. Now they are being shown to help treat pain, depression and even alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Horizon explores why they work, and how we could all benefit from the hidden power of the placebo.
Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more lasting effects on you today than your lifestyle or genes. It is one of the most powerful and provocative new ideas in human science, and it was pioneered by a British scientist, Professor David Barker. ...
BBC 电子游戏自诞生之日起,媒体与学界对其进行的争论就从未停息。有人说它使人成瘾,有人说它让人变得暴力……然而这些都是真的吗?电子游戏真的有那么坏吗?《地平线》将带你回顾三十年来学界对其进行的各项研究,从科学角度阐释电子游戏对人脑产生的影响,以及它可能为我们带来的益处。
2013年2月28日,佛罗里达坦帕市东郊住宅区,正在熟睡中的杰夫·布什和他的卧室突然消失得无影无踪。可怕的是,他消失前毫无征兆,杰夫从此杳无音信。他被陷穴吞没了。那么,陷穴是如何形成的?对于陷穴我们能做些什么?在这个不可思议的地理侦探故事片中,伊恩·斯图尔特博士发掘了地球几百万年的历史,以寻找这些问题的答案,并追问是否会有更多陷穴在我们身边出现。
New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our solar system is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It's a miracle our Earth is here at all.
BBC气象员彼得?吉布斯冲动地回到了他曾经生活和工作过的英国南极调查局哈雷研究站。当时,哈雷研究站在臭氧空洞的发现中起到了重要作用,而今天,它仍然在诸多领域作出了许多重要的发现,例如:人类生活如何受到太阳活动的影响、星际旅行研究、以及人类导致的气候变化所产生的威胁等。彼得此行还肩负着救援的使命,由于冰山移动,哈雷研究站可能会随着巨大的冰山飘向远方。
This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments. In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town th...
A few weeks ago, the National Health Service was hit by a widespread and devastating cyber attack - Horizon tells the inside story of one of the most challenging days in the history of the NHS. On the morning of 12 May the attack started. Appointment systems, pathology labs, x-rays and even CT scanners were infected - putting not just data but patients lives at risk, and on eve...
For decades some have suspected that there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us, even visiting our world. It might sound like science fiction, but today scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extraterrestrials. In 2006, husband and wife team Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin discovered an enigmatic...
ADHD指注意缺陷多动障碍,又称多动症。英国著名喜剧演员Rory Bremner受到多动症的困扰,他采访医疗机构,尝试新药,了解ADHD背后的科学
Volcanoes have long helped shape the Earth. But what is less well known is that there are volcanoes on other planets and moons that are even more extraordinary than those on our own home planet. Horizon follows an international team of volcanologists in Iceland as they draw fascinating parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those elsewhere in the solar system. Through the...
The car has shrunk the world, increased personal freedom and in so many ways expanded our horizons, but there is a flipside. Fumes from car exhausts have helped to destroy our environment, poisoned the air we breathe and killed us in far more straightforward ways. But all that is going to change. This episode enters a world where cars can drive themselves, a world where we are ...
本片深入探究了给日本造成重创的地震与海啸背後的科学原理,本期节目将带领观众们随着地理学教授Roger Bilham的旅程,深入到震後仅数天後的日本。
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...
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...
The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov recently brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly ...
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary 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. A mysterious bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that ...
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history. Now, o...