Horizon - 2010-2011
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 27 Sept 2010
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two15 Episodes
Back from the Dead
Season 48 - Episode 1
Dr Kevin Fong investigates a technique that is used to bring people back from the dead.
The Death of the Oceans?
Season 48 - Episode 2
Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time - an investigation into what is happ...
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
Season 48 - Episode 3
They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For near...
Is Seeing Believing?
Season 48 - Episode 4
Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. We show...
Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome
Season 48 - Episode 5
A decade ago, scientists announced that they had produced the first draft of the human genome, the 3.6 billion letters of our genetic code. ...
Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Season 48 - Episode 6
Famed for their ability to inflict Armageddon from outer space, asteroids are now revealing the secrets of how they are responsible for both...
Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story
Season 48 - Episode 7
Horizon reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves - a crisis that bec...
What Is One Degree?
Season 48 - Episode 8
Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature? H...
What Is Reality?
Season 48 - Episode 9
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of r...
Science Under Attack
Season 48 - Episode 10
Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been ...
The Secret World of Pain
Season 48 - Episode 11
Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. Breakthroughs have come from studyi...
Surviving a Car Crash
Season 48 - Episode 12
Horizon meets the scientists working to make fatal car crashes a thing of the past. A remarkable fusion of mechanical engineering and biolog...
How to Mend a Broken Heart
Season 48 - Episode 13
Dr Kevin Fong finds out how close scientists are to being able to mend your heart if it stops working. He meets some of the people who have ...
Are We Still Evolving?
Season 48 - Episode 14
Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great questions about our species: are we still evolving? There's no doubt that we're a product of millions...
Predators in Your Backyard
Season 48 - Episode 15
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live. In Florida, a new population of ...