Professor Trujillo interviews Dr. Michael Latz from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who gives an overview of the institution's programs and facilities and discusses bioluminescence.

Yellowstone National Park is a spectacular landscape and a diverse habitat which supports an array of wildlife. But this serene habitat also holds a dark secret: it sits atop a super-volcano that could 'blow' at any minute. This episode follows the park's residents; the beavers, otters, elks and bison that are oblivious to this ticking time bomb, thriving in this land of extremes. Our narrator, esteemed naturalist Armstrong Wedgewood (actor Matt Lucas)...

Cast away in the Pacific Ocean, the Galapagos Archipelago straddles the equator—a string of over 120 tropical islands that erupted from the deep ocean floor more than 10 million years ago. Those swept here by storms and currents survived incredible odds to find untouched islands free from competition. These hardy pioneers evolved in remarkable ways in what’s known as nature’s greatest experiment.

In part one of this program, chemistry authorities, including "Helium Man" and two janitors, lay down the law-Boyle's Law, Graham's Law, and Dalton's Law. They also present the Kinetic Molecular Theory and the Ideal Gas Equation and elaborate on partial pressures and the difference between diffusion and effusion. Part two investigates kinetic energy; ion-dipole, dipole-dipole, and London dispersion forces; hydrogen bonds; phase diagrams; and vapor...

Wildlife expert Saba Douglas-Hamilton, together with her husband Frank and their three young children, move to the romantic Samburu National Reserve in Kenya to run a safari camp for the first time. But life out there isn't easy. There are monkeys in the kitchen, floods threatening the camp and, with no fences to keep out the wildlife, elephants are regular house guests. This series follows their ups and downs as the family struggles to keep guests,...

This program profiles the relationships between parent genes and offspring by defining genotype, phenotype, dominant and recessive traits, and simple and complex traits. It also considers how advances in biomedical research and technology have created a path to prevention against diseases.

This episode hits close to home as Shane unravels the history and science of cotton, a crop that reshaped a landscape, a culture, and the very DNA of the American people. Shane explores how a prehistoric coastline laid the foundation for the cultivation of cotton, which became a cornerstone of the American economy. Along the way, Shane begins to realize, “This part of the Human Footprint… is me.”

An in-depth outline of photosynthesis, including light-dependent and light-independent reactions, how it is powered by excited electrons and ATP, and processes such as photolysis, chemiosmosis and the Calvin Cycle.

Professor Brian Cox explores our origins, place and destiny in the universe. We all start our lives thinking that we are at the centre of the universe, surrounded by our family and the world as it spins around us. But the urge to explore is strong. Brian tells the story of how our innate human curiosity has led us from feeling that we are at the centre of everything, to our modern understanding of our true place in space and time - that we are living...

This live-action video program is about the pseudo-ruminant digestive system. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Viewers will see and hear the word used in a variety of contexts providing students with a model for how to appropriately use the word. Related words are also used and reinforced...