Is your smart phone making you stupid? Can you make yourself cleverer? The Great British Intelligence Test measures the brainpower of the nation in one of the largest intelligence experiments of its kind. 　　Devised with leading scientists at Imperial College, London, over 250,000 people around the nation have taken part so far - revealing important new science about the nation’s ...

Horizon looks at dark energy - the mysterious force that is unexpectedly causing the universe's expansion to speed up. The effects of dark energy were discovered in 1998 but physicists still don't know what it is. Worse, its very existence calls into question Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - the cornerstone of modern physics. The hunt for the identity of dark en...

The Ebola virus. No-one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain - it's one of the most virulent infections known to science. This special episode of Horizon meets the scientists and doctors from all around the world looking for the cure and hears first-hand accounts of what it's actually like to catch - and survive - this terrible disease.

在電影《羅馬四大圣殿》的95分鐘內(nèi)，四位專家將解說這些教堂及其所珍藏的藝術品：梵蒂岡博物館館長安東尼奧·帕盧奇將帶我們參觀圣彼得大教堂，國際知名建筑師保羅·波特菲斯將聲情并茂地對拉特朗圣若望大教堂進行深入的解剖，著名的藝術史學家克勞迪奧·斯特里納蒂將揭示圣瑪麗大教堂的歷史和傳奇，梵蒂岡當代藝術館館長米克·福地將向觀眾介紹墻外的圣保羅大教堂。 　　置身于梵蒂岡那些獨一無二的神圣空間：圣彼得大教堂的圣器收藏室和寶藏宮的八角形房間，梵蒂岡使徒圖書館的西斯廷廳和使徒宮的公爵廳；聆聽專家給出的引人入勝的描述和他們對教堂的獨到見解。了解教堂在幾個世紀以來的發(fā)展，品鑒最著名的藝術作品。從喬托、布拉曼特、米開朗基羅、弗朗切斯科·博羅米尼、貝尼尼到多米尼克·豐塔納、阿諾爾福迪卡比奧、雅各波托里蒂……揭秘歷任教皇和藝術家們的故事。

第六人民醫(yī)院是上海最大的醫(yī)院之一。在這里，醫(yī)護人員、患者和生活混亂的家庭相互接觸。通過相互交織的故事，一幅當代中國在資本主義和傳統(tǒng)文化之間的畫像浮現(xiàn)出來。面對生活的變幻莫測和醫(yī)療機會的不平等，中國人的溫柔和幽默感在我們最意想不到的時候顯現(xiàn)出來。

Deception is an integral part of human nature and it is estimated we all lie up to nine times a day. But what if we created a world in which we couldn't lie? In a radical experiment, pioneering scientists from across Europe have come together to make this happen. 　　Brand new technology is allowing them to rig three British people to make it impossible for them to lie undetected. ...

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK - causing more deaths in this group than car accidents, and even more than cancer. This means that the most likely thing to kill Dr Xand Van Tulleken is himself. And he wants to know why. 　　In this sensitive film, Xand finds out what we know about why people develop suicidal thoughts, and whether there is anything that we ca...