Horizon - 2016
Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.4 (33 votes)
BBC Two16 Episodes
The Immortalist
Season 53 - Episode 1
Investigating the story of how a Russian internet millionaire, Dmitry Itskov, is turning to cutting edge science to try to unlock the secret...
Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control
Season 53 - Episode 2
Documentary exploring science's long-standing obsession with the idea of gravity control, including recent breakthroughs in the search for l...
The Mystery of Dark Energy
Season 53 - Episode 3
Examining Dark Energy, the mysterious force that is unexpectedly causing the universe's expansion to speed up. Its effects were discovered i...
Oceans of the Solar System
Season 53 - Episode 4
The oceans define the earth. They are crucial to life and we used to think that they were unique to our blue planet. But we were wrong. It ...
The End of the Solar System
Season 53 - Episode 5
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 yea...
Should We Close Our Zoos?
Season 53 - Episode 6
Liz Bonnin presents a controversial and provocative episode of Horizon, investigating how new scientific research is raising hard questions ...
How to Find Love Online
Season 53 - Episode 7
Dr Xand Van Tulleken is single and looking for love. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry wants to use him as her guinea pig to test whether the algo...
Ice Station Antarctica
Season 53 - Episode 8
Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over thr...
Curing Alzheimer's
Season 53 - Episode 9
Horizon investigates a new era of Alzheimer's research, which is bringing hope to millions of sufferers across the world. New scanning and g...
E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
Season 53 - Episode 10
Michael Mosley investigates the dramatic rise in e-cigarettes. They're everywhere these days, but what does the latest scientific research o...
Why Are We Getting So Fat?
Season 53 - Episode 11
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...
Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?
Season 53 - Episode 12
Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates the world of performance-enhancing drugs - from the athletes seeking the rewards of fame, glory and lucrat...
Inside CERN
Season 53 - Episode 13
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, tea...
My Amazing Twin
Season 53 - Episode 14
The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin bro...
The Lost Tribes of Humanity
Season 53 - Episode 15
Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in thi...
The Wildest Weather in the Universe
Season 53 - Episode 16
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 ...