Science
BBC Earth
Acoustic Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead To Levitating Humans
Acoustic Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead To Levitating Humans
1 min |
June 2018
BBC Earth
Rise of the Robber Barons
Grasping monopolists or American heroes? Adam IP Smith tells the story of a new breed of ruthless businessmen who made fortunes from oil, steel and railroads in the second half of the 19th century.
7 min |
April 2017
BBC Earth
Prof Raj Lada
Helen Pilcher quizzes the founder of the Christmas Tree Research Centre to find out his secret formula for avoiding a carpet covered in pine needles…
2 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
She's Having A Bubble!
Kedah, Malaysia
1 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Was Worse Than We Thought
Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula in Central America, forming the Chicxulub crater and wiping out the dinosaurs in what is known as the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event. But two new pieces of research suggest that this impact was even more cataclysmic than was previously believed.
1 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Newly Identified Orangutan Is World's Most Endangered Great Ape Species
A population of orangutans that lives in a remote part of northern Sumatra, and that was only discovered in 1997, has now been identified as a separate species. With only around 800 individuals known to exist, it’s now also the most threatened of all great ape species.
1 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Mission Into The Sun
We’ve visited Pluto and the outer reaches of the Solar System, and our rovers are trundling over the surface of Mars. Yet the Sun has remained stubbornly out of reach… until now
8 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Norman England's Warrior Queen
The achievements of Matilda of Boulogne, wife of King Stephen, are often overlooked in favour of her enemy, Empress Maud. Alison Weir examines the woman who raised an army in the 1140s to defend the English throne.
7 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Cockatoos Are Skilful Shape-Sorters
Who’s a clever boy, then? Goffin’s cockatoos, a species of small parrot native to Australasia, have been shown to have similar shape-recognition abilities to a human two-year-old.
1 min |
April 2018
BBC Earth
Have A Laugh
Comedian and mathematician Dara Ó Briain is diving into the invisible science behind everyday life in his second children’s book, Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes. He chats to HELEN GLENNY
3 min |
January 2019
BBC Earth
My Life Scientific
This month, anatomist and presenter Alice Roberts talks to Helen Pilcher about her love of skeletons and the lure of Strictly Come Dancing
2 min |
January 2019
BBC Earth
Incan Surgeons Were Surprisingly Skilled At Drilling Holes In People's Skulls
Thankfully, trepanation – the act of scraping, cutting, or drilling an opening into a person’s cranium to treat everything from headaches, to seizures, or even supposed demonic possession – is a practice largely confined to the past. But if you were ever in need of such an operation, you could do a lot worse than seeking out an Incan surgeon.
1 min |
December 2018
BBC Earth
All Summer, I Live And Breathe Swifts
Across the UK, people from all walks of life are coming together to save the swifts. It’s one of the most inspiring stories in conservation today.
7 min |
December 2018
BBC Knowledge (Asia Edition)
Virtual Reality Is About To Change Everything
This year, virtual reality will finally come of age. The headsets won’t just be worn by gamers: this revolutionary technology is set to change everything. From booking a holiday to visiting the doctor, our lives are about to get a whole lot more virtual...
6 min |
April 2016
BBC Knowledge (Asia Edition)
Explore The World's First Christian Art In Asia
Asian civilisations museum launches the world’s inaugural exhibition.
3 min |
July 2016
BBC Earth
Dinosaur Brain Identified for First Time Ever
This ‘brown pebble’ found by a fossil hunter in Sussex more than a decade ago has been confirmed as the first known example of dinosaur brain tissue.
2 min |
February 2016
BBC Earth
True Blue
They’re very fussy about the hole they live in and they eat fruit that would burn our skin off. Grand Cayman’s blue iguanas are definitely one of a kind, says Katie Stacey
5 min |
March 2018
BBC Earth
Ancient ‘Pac-Man' Frog May Have Dined On Dinosaurs
Paleontology
1 min |
March 2018
BBC Earth
Kiwi- A National Treasure
Kiwis are iconic in New Zealand, an integral part of the culture, appearing on merchandise everywhere, but in reality they have been disappearing in the wild. Now, the rarest of their kind, the rowi, is part of a long-running protection programme.
6 min |
February 2019
BBC Earth
Fossil Of First Known Perching Bird Found
Specimen holds clues to the origin of more than half of current bird species.
1 min |
July - August 2019
BBC Earth
Monster Movers
Think moving house is difficult? Take a look at the gargantuan machines that are needed to move rockets, wind turbines, Antarctic bases and even entire buildings
4 min |
July - August 2019
BBC Earth
Life And Times Of A Tiger Queen
Ranthambhore is one of few places in the world where tigers can live long and prosper. Here, we celebrate this renowned Indian reserve through the story of one of its stars – a remarkable female called Noor.
4 min |
July - August 2019
BBC Earth
The Hunt For The Oldest Galaxies In The Universe
The deeper we look into the vastness of space, the further back in time we are able to see. Now, NASA’s RELICS project is pushing this phenomenon as far as it can in an attempt to observe galaxies that formed at the very beginning of the Universe
8 min |
July - August 2019
BBC Earth
A New Dawn For Redonda
Removing goats and rats from a remote Caribbean island involved abseiling, catapults and nappies, as Jenny Daltry reveals.
7 min |
November 2018
BBC Earth
What Will It Take For Us To Travel Through Time?
In 1915 in Berlin, at the height of WWI, Albert Einstein presented a revolutionary new theory of gravity – the General Theory of Relativity. It has since become one of the most successful theories ever, passing every observational test thrown at it and predicating cosmological phenomena such as the Big Bang, black holes and gravitational waves. But the theory has also given scientists sleepless nights because it makes one thing pretty much unavoidable: time machines…
8 min |
November 2018
BBC Earth
The Immortal Viking
He butchered serpents, pillaged on an epic scale, laughed in the face of death – and, in doing so, helped forge the modern ideal of the archetypal Viking warrior. Eleanor Parker tells the story of the ultimate Norse legend: Ragnar Lothbrok.
7 min |
November 2018
BBC Earth
A Bite-Sized History Of Dentistry
Humanity’s long quest for a pearly white smile has produced everything from jewelled Maya tooth implants to ivory dentures given as a wedding present. Emily Scott-Dearing introduces Charlotte Hodgman to seven of the most fascinating objects from an exhibition on the history of teeth at the Wellcome Collection museum in the UK.
5 min |
November 2018
BBC Earth
“Elephants Actually Have A Whole Range Of Different Vocalisations”
Making noises through their trunks isn’t the only way elephants communicate. Dr Beth Mortimer of Oxford University reveals their secret language.
2 min |
November 2018
BBC Earth
The Most mysterious Objects In The Universe
The discovery in October 2017 of a bizarre, cigar-shaped object hurtling through our Solar System set imaginations racing. Was it an asteroid? A comet? Or an alien spaceship, sent here on a reconnaissance mission? Named ‘Oumuamua, it joined a select group of cosmic enigmas and celestial oddities that have astronomers scratching their heads…
10+ min |
February 2019
BBC Earth
Life After Man
From asteroid strike to climate change to nuclear war, humanity faces all kinds of existential threats. But if our species disappeared tomorrow, what would actually happen – and what kind of planet would we be leaving behind?
7 min |