Season 4
10 episodes · Mar 20, 2013
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S4E1Is There a God Particle?
Mar 20, 201344mScientists explore the effects of the Higgs Boson discovery, which validates the Standard Model in particle physics and solidifies the understanding of subatomic particles; highlights include an in-depth discussion of the Higgs field and mass.
S4E2When Does Life Begin?
Jun 5, 201344mIt is a debate that has raged for centuries’. Groundbreaking evidence reveals that inside all of us are traces of cells from our relatives, blurring the lines between one life and another. Technology is now giving birth to new life forms made of surprising components – from droplets of oil in a Petri dish, to conscious robots and to a new global internet-connected life form comprised of all humanity.
S4E3Can We Survive the Death of the Sun?
Jun 12, 201344mWe are all at the mercy of the Sun. Its glowing disc sustains nearly all life on Earth. But the Sun also holds a dark secret: someday, our aging, expanding star will bathe the Earth in a fiery holocaust. Everything we know will turn to hot, bubbling, plasma.
S4E4How Do Aliens Think?
Jun 19, 201344mIf the stuff of life is spread throughout the cosmos, then the universe could be teeming with aliens.
S4E5Will Sex Become Extinct?
Jul 3, 201344mEvery single person who has ever lived was created from the genes of one man and one woman. But human sexual reproduction, unchanged for millions of years, is about to undergo radical change.
S4E6Can Our Minds Be Hacked?
Jun 26, 201344mOur minds store our entire lives, our memories and our deepest desires. Tell no one, and our thoughts remain our own. But our brains are biological computers. Computer hackers can tamper with our email.
S4E7Are Robots the Future of Human Evolution?
Jul 10, 201344mWe are in the midst of a revolution so insidious we can't even see it. From our telephones to our vacuum cleaners to our cars, we have robots that live and work beside us. And now we're designing them to think for themselves, giving them the power to learn to move on their own.
S4E8Is Reality Real?
Jul 17, 201344mWe are in the midst of a revolution so insidious we can't even see it. From our telephones to our vacuum cleaners to our cars, we have robots that live and work beside us. And now we're designing them to think for themselves, giving them the power to learn to move on their own.
S4E9Do We Have Free Will?
Jul 24, 201344mWhat if everything that has or will happen in the universe has already been determined and we are unable to change our inevitable destinies? Until the discovery of quantum uncertainty, physicists were convinced free will does not exist. Now neuroscientists and geneticists have stepped into the fray, arguing that free will is an illusion thanks to the genes we are born with, the automatic processes working in our brains, and the conforming pressures of society.
S4E10Did God Create Evolution?
Jul 31, 201344mWhat or who created all of the billions of species that have lived on Earth? Is all life the product of evolution as Charles Darwin proposed or was it the guiding hand of a higher power?