In recent years a groundbreaking new study has been released into the effects of the contraceptive pill. Research from Denmark claimed women on the pill and other forms of hormonal contraception were 70% more likely to be diagnosed with depression than those who were not. And another study has found hormonal contraception was linked to a seemingly dramatic risk of breast cancer...

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...

由眾多科學(xué)家和工程師研發(fā)接近30年的“卡西尼號(hào)”太空探測(cè)器在經(jīng)過(guò)長(zhǎng)達(dá)近7年的漫長(zhǎng)太空旅行之后，順利進(jìn)入環(huán)繞土星轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)的軌道，開始對(duì)土星大氣、光環(huán)和衛(wèi)星進(jìn)行歷時(shí)4年的科學(xué)考察。卡西尼號(hào)”還攜帶了探測(cè)土星最大衛(wèi)星土衛(wèi)六的探測(cè)器，取名為“惠更斯號(hào)”。在探測(cè)任務(wù)20年后，卡西尼號(hào)土星探測(cè)器燃料將盡，科學(xué)家控制其向土星墜毀，在此之后，卡西尼號(hào)與地球失去聯(lián)系，它進(jìn)入土星大氣層燃燒成為土星的一部分。在卡西尼號(hào)毀滅的最后一秒鐘，它都堅(jiān)守使命，往地球傳輸數(shù)據(jù)，最后才壯烈沖向大氣層。

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC that covers science and philosophy.

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 ...

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...

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...

In this unique documentary Pope Francis opens the Vatican’s doors to the world, and guides us, with his voice over, discovering his personal and passionate concept of Art: instrument of evangelization and opposition to the culture of transitory. In this extraordinary journey, the audience will have the privilege to admire the eternal beauty of the Vatican Museums, Saint Peter’s...

In March 2018 an international team of scientists gathered in a remote valley in the Canadian Rockies to conduct a unique experiment - to attempt to see into the heart of a massive avalanche to see if we can find ways to save lives in the future. Avalanches kill hundreds of people every year. Even in the UK 25 people have been killed by these forces of nature since the year 200...