It all began 50 years ago in a muddy field in Northamptonshire with three scientists, an RAF bomber and a borrowed BBC short-wave transmitter. The experiment was to lead to the radar which won the Battle of Britain and defeated the U-boats in the Atlantic. Today civil airlines could not operate without it, neither could the space programme. Radar also forms NATO's first line of defence in the cold war; it has come a long way from that muddy field. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/47db43107ad3475c9c7f1faed0f1c753 A BBC Q.E.D programme

Dan Corbett travels the country to discover how New Zealand's combination of water, wind and sun make us ideally placed to harness the power of weather. Made in partnership with Meridian Energy.

Four overweight teenagers agree to swallow capsules filled with healthy people's faeces in the hope of losing weight, but a lack of suitable poo donors threatens the experiment.

A researcher experiments on himself, and the girls face their three-month and six-month weigh-ins. What will be the outcome of the experiment?

Filmmaker Damon Gameau puts his healthy body on the line as he documents the effects of eating supposedly healthy foods that are hiding high amounts of sugar.

Nigel Latta finds out why we remember certain things and forget others. He also looks at what happens to the brain when it gets damaged.

Animal Planet Special about researching Chimpanzee's ability to learn our language that follows two chimps, 'Emma' and 'Harper'.

Believe it or not, our eating habits express a lot about our identity as a species, and reveal our unique evolutionary history. Join zoologist Desmond Morris in this second part of The Human Animal documentary series as he traces back our ancestry from arboreal gatherers to bipedal hunters. Learn how so many of the habits we take for granted as simply aesthetic and non-functional, even those seemingly separate from feeding, reveal many of the instincts that our ancestors acquired long ago due to powerful evolutionary selection pressures, and the implications of many of those adaptations in our modern world.

BBC ProductionsIn the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey. Trekking through the forests of our ancient ancestors, she goes to meet the apes who still live there today - chimpanzees. In six million years we have become very different, and what kick-started this can be found in an extraordinary fossil - Sahelanthropus. A single hole where the spine was attached suggests that our ancestors started the journey to being human by standing upright. We take it for granted, but standing up and walking is surprisingly complex - each step involves the co-ordination of over 200 muscles. Charting the major advances from Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond, Alice tells the epic story of human evolution through our body today. New research has uncovered clues in our ankles, waists and necks that show how our ancestors were forced to survive on the open plain - by walking and running for their lives. From the neck down we have inherited the body of our ancestor Homo erectus, who lived on the plains of Africa nearly two million years ago. Finally Alice looks at probably the most important advance in our evolutionary story. A fortuitous by-product of standing up was freeing up our hands. With pressure-sensitive gloves, she demonstrates how the tiniest of anatomical tweaks to our thumbs and little fingers transformed hands that evolved to grasp branches into ones that could use tools. And with our dexterous hands, our species, Homo sapiens, would change the world.

In this second episode Dr Alice Roberts charts how our ancestors' hunt for food has driven the way we look and behave today - from the shape of our face, to the way we see and even the way we attract the opposite sex. Clues to our ancestors' diet can be found in some surprising places. Alice goes in search of a lion kill to find out how the tape worms in lions' food reveal our ancestors were eating the same diet of big game 1.7 million years ago. She puts her teeth to the test to reveal that our teeth have evolved to shear through meat. But by comparing her saliva with that of chimpanzees, she demonstrates that our body is as much designed to eat starch as it is to eat meat. And visiting a tribe of hunter gatherers in Tanzania, who still gather food in a similar way to our ancestors, Alice discovers that starchy tubers are crucial to survival when meat is scarce. The latest research suggests that the way the different sexes found food throughout our evolution has shaped the way we relate to each other today. The way the Hadza tribe share food and form long-term couples is thought to be the origin of love and marriage in all of us. And a fun experiment with Britain's best skateboarders shows they take more risks when women are present - it seems men are designed to show off to attract a mate.

Dr Alice Roberts explores how our species, Homo sapiens, developed its large brain and asks why humans are the only ape of its kind left on the planet today. The evolution of the human mind is one of the greatest mysteries. It is the basis of religion, philosophy and science. We are special because of our extraordinary brain, and to understand why we think and act the way we do, we need to look at where and why our brains evolved. The Rift Valley in Kenya is thought to be the crucible of human evolution, and here Alice examines the fossils in our family tree which reveal our brains have more than quadrupled in size since our ancestors split from chimpanzees. Research investigating sediments and rocks laid down during the period of greatest brain growth suggests a fluctuating environment may have played a part. Drawing on research on social politics in chimpanzees, the cognitive development of children and the tools that have been found littered across the Rift Valley, Alice explores how and why our ancestors brains became so big. Successive species of increasingly large-brained humans migrated around the world - from Homo erectus to heidelbergensis, the Neanderthals to us. It has always been assumed the reason that Homo sapiens succeeded where others failed is to do with our large brains. Comparing skulls it's clear Neanderthals had just as big a brain as us, so why is there only us left? Alice goes to meet Svante Paabo, who is decoding the Neanderthal and human genome, and Clive Finlayson, who is unearthing the Neanderthals' final settlement, to try to find out.

For most of human history our brains dealt with pretty straightforward problems. But that brain is the exact same one we now use to grapple with the modern world.

Sally Boysen's project attempting to teach young chimps graphic symbols in sequence, comparable to human children learning to read letters.

This edition of Horizon does something that no one has done before. We have assembled the first ever complete Neanderthal skeleton, from parts gathered from all over the world, to reveal the most anatomically accurate representation of modern humanity's closest relative. The aim is to use this skeleton to answer two of the great questions of human evolution. Was Neanderthal a thinking, feeling human being like us, or a primitive beast? And why is it that we are here today, and Neanderthal is extinct? To answer these questions, we've brought together a team of leading experts to explore the skeleton for clues, and perform experiments to test out their ideas. Their findings allow us to use drama to bring Neanderthal to life with unrivalled accuracy. They reveal how Neanderthal hunted, thought - even spoke. What emerges is a very different beast to the brute of legend. It seems Neanderthal was in many ways our equal and in some ways our superior. And the story of his extinction owed less to modern humans' superiority than sheer luck.

A small piece of stone, unearthed in an African cave, may rewrite human history. If the message it contains is true, then one of the great sagas of human evolution - how our ancestors stopped being mere animals and became modern thinking human beings has all been based on a mistake.The history books say that some 37,000 years ago, our ancestors arrived in Europe for the first time. Suddenly, cave paintings appeared - clear evidence of sophisticated thought. It seemed there had been "Human Revolution".That revolution was so profound that it allowed us to triumph over even our nearest relatives, the Neanderthals. They were wiped out within years of our arrival in Europe. It seemed the sudden dawning of thought has led to us dominating the planet like no other creature. But now a small piece of ochre in a South African cave has changed everything. It appears to be a work of abstract art, an example of advanced thought - and yet it is twice as old as the human revolution. Evidence has also emerged suggesting that the Neanderthals were developing complex thinking too. Together these facts are forcing a huge rethink about our origins and what makes us human.

A report from the 49th The Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress. Speakers are 1. Dr. John Maunder, climate scientist -- 2 Professor Derek Bryce-Smith, University of Reading. -- 3 Dr Michael Hills, University of Waikato -- 4 Professor Theo Roy, University of Waikato -- 5 Dr Don McAlpine, Massey University -- 6 Dr Keith Sutherland Presidential Address

Dr Kirk Huffman, talking about (Australian) kava ban. Filmed off-the-cuff by Canberra-based film producer Kris Kerehona in August 2011 in the Hedley-Bull Building (home to the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs) at ANU, Canberra, during a break in the first International Kava Conference organised by the Pacific-Islander group The World Kava Movement.

Features exclusive access to an American camp for transgender adolescents and their parents. As well as summer fun, they must face huge dilemmas including whether or not to begin hormone blockers to halt male puberty.

Follows three young transgender Brits fulfilling their dreams of becoming men. The film features unprecedented access to surgical procedures and also meets the increasingly confident online community of young transgender men baring everything on social media.

Follow two ordinary British families as they attempt to navigate the extraordinary challenges of having a 7 year old child who was born the wrong gender. The parents are faced with decisions few others could comprehend, from changing pronouns to whether to let their kids go transition at school.

Professor Susan Greenfield, a leading neuroscientist from Oxford University introduces the human brain in the first of this six part documentary by the BBC.

This episode puts emotions under the microscope. Why do they feel the way they do, and how are they interwoven with our thought processes?

The illusion of vision. It feels as though we open our eyes and just see what's out there, but the more we learn about the brain's visual system, the further it seems this is from the truth. Patients who can't see movement or recognize faces, reveal the tricks and short cuts the brain uses to construct an illusion of reality. Is the brain making up so much of what we think we're seeing that vision is really just dreaming with your eyes open?

How do our brains generate consciousness? This episode tries to explain how the brain creates consciousness.

Two part series that tells the incredible story of how our planet was born in a cataclysm of cosmic violence.

Two part series that tells the incredible story of how our planet was born in a cataclysm of cosmic violence.

Beekeepers, scientists and others discuss the world's declining bee population and what it may mean for modern society.

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened investigates the science behind the earthquake and tsunami. The programme follows Professor of Geological Sciences Roger Bilham - who arrived in Japan days after the earthquake struck - as he sets off to view the devastation from the air.

Focuses on the human cost of our addiction to oil and the increasingly difficult task of holding a major corporation accountable for its past deeds.

Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.

Men and women are just the same. Just as caring, just as promiscuous, just as good at a three point turn. Aren't they? The results of a new BBC sex survey of 500,000 people from around the globe - the largest ever carried out - provide very revealing answers. And five men and five women are put through a unique battery of experiments to uncover the real differences between the sexes. Engineer Lloyd finds out what's missing in him. Bickering couple Liz and Craig squabble over who's the most empathetic - until a stunning brain scan settles the argument. And in a television first we reveal the true effects of sex hormones on the brain by following 29-year-old Max as, under the influence of monthly testosterone injections, she turns from a woman into a man.

This programme is on whether we can live in space.

Every living thing eventually break down and dies - but does it have to be that way?

Insight into how out brain works.

If we can understand how animals think then we may be able to understand ourselves.

What triggered the creation of the sun and earth?

How will robots interact with society? Could the next big thing be the BIG one? How could your traffic prayers be answered, is is automated cars?

Interviewee is Professor Sir Paul Callaghan and the musical selection is Night Scout performed by by Victoria Girling-Butcher. August is Science and Innovation Month on Talk Talk.

The investigation of the cosmos starts in California, visiting a huge new telescope whose sole purpose is to be ready to receive a message from outer space. Dr Doug Vakoch of the Interstellar Messaging Composition Group who is working out what reply we should send, and the programme finds out how far our ancient broadcasts have travelled.

Building the Universe. Adam Hart-Davis goes 100m underground to meet the scientists trying to re-create the Big Bang and journeys to Durham to meet Professor Carlos Frenk who makes universes in his computer.

Adam Hart-Davis visits Chile's Atacama desert, home to the world's largest telescope to see some of the incredible images it has produced. In Tuscany, Dr Maggie Aderin inspects a telescope designed to map gravity waves.

Adam Hart-Davis meets a team from Leicester who are examining data accidentally picked up by spy satellites that documents the biggest bangs to happen since the Big Bang.

Adam Hart-Davis searches for planets orbiting suns other than ours that could sustain life, and he explains how the first planet seen outside our solar system was found.

EVERYTHING: The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy. NOTHING: Explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim Al-Khalili can prove it

EVERYTHING: The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy. NOTHING: Explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim Al-Khalili can prove it

The topic is Kiwi's and the overseas experience

The story of chemistry, the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world - the elements

A look at the 19th-century chemists who struggled to impose an order on the apparently random world of the elements. From working out how many there were to discovering their unique relationships with each other, the early scientists' bid to decode the hidden order of the elements was driven by false starts and bitter disputes. But ultimately the quest would lead to one of chemistry's most beautiful intellectual creations - the periodic table.

The story of how the elements were discovered and mapped and the pioneers who cracked their secrets. Just 92 elements made up the world, but the belief that there were only four - earth, fire, air and water - persisted until the 19th century. The programme looks at the alchemists who first began to question the notion of the elements in their search for the secret of everlasting life.

In the second episode of the series, Liz follows two couples undertaking IVF and looks at the new research that may dramatically increase success rates. Jem attempts to become the first man to go 360 degrees on a playground swing. And Dr Yan confuses shoppers with the help of a very special mirror.