The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.
Neste especial, contaremos 14 milhões de anos de história, através de uma viagem rápida de 120 minutos, desde o início dos tempos até a atualidade, fazendo escalas para explorar os pontos mais marcantes, os momentos históricos e as conexões extraordinárias entre o passado distante e nossa vida cotidiana. Esta é uma nova forma de ver a história do universo, do planeta Terra e da humanidade: o surgimento da vida, os avanços do homem e o crescimento da civilização.
Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.
Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehistoric times, man has sought to measure time, to organize social and religious life, to plan food supply... Today we can surf the Internet, geolocate, pay by credit card… All our daily lives depend on time and the synchronization of clocks. The history of the invention of time and of the ways and instruments to measure it is a long story…
Uma menina de dez anos recebe uma educação pouco ortodoxa em genética quando visita o laboratório de insectos do seu pai. Uma história tocante sobre o nascimento da investigação científica em moscas da fruta, contada pela perspetiva de Betsey, a filha do investigador Calvin Bridges, fundador da genética moderna. Dirigido pelo norte-americano Alexis Gambis, que foi investigador em mosca da fruta antes de se tornar cineasta.
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.
Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.