Horizon - 2012-2013

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two16 Episodes

The Truth About Looking Young
Season 50 - Episode 1
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your ...

Mission to Mars
Season 50 - Episode 2
Horizon goes behind the scenes at NASA as they countdown to the landing of a 2.5 billion-dollar rover on the surface of Mars. In six days ti...

Eat, Fast and Live Longer
Season 50 - Episode 3
Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to...

How Big Is the Universe?
Season 50 - Episode 4
Cosmologists talk about their project to create a map of everything in existence, and also reveal that their research has some highly unexpe...

How Small Is the Universe?
Season 50 - Episode 5
Horizon plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the Universe. It is a journey where things don't ...

Defeating the Superbugs
Season 50 - Episode 6
Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacteria that are becoming...

The Creative Brain: How Insight Works
Season 50 - Episode 7
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 idea is born. Today, sci...

How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery
Season 50 - Episode 8
A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. He ...

The Truth about Taste
Season 50 - Episode 9
Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and...

The Age of Big Data
Season 50 - Episode 10
In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the ci...

The Secret Life of the Cat
Season 50 - Episode 11
Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap. In a groundbreaking experiment, 50 cats from a village in Su...

Little Cat Diaries
Season 50 - Episode 12
50 cats were fitted with GPS collars to track their every movement, and cat-cams to record their unique view of the world. In this groundbre...

Fracking: The New Energy Rush
Season 50 - Episode 13
Iain Stewart investigates a new and controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground. Sometimes, this is right under the...

Swallowed by a Black Hole
Season 50 - Episode 14
This summer, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is getting ready to feast. A gas cloud three times the size of our planet has st...

What Makes us Human?
Season 50 - Episode 15
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out wh...

The Truth About Personality
Season 50 - Episode 16
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances, ...