Pluto TV Science schedule

no info available

The earth is 4.5 billion years old and it is slowly dying. Tectonic activity is slowly cooling the planet – the continents will eventually move together to form a new supercontinent called Pangea Ultima.

Earth has an evil twin. Venus. It is shrouded in a lethal atmosphere of carbon dioxide and acid rain. The surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead and the pressure high enough to crush a nuclear submarine.

Gravity keeps us on the ground and the planets in their orbits, yet we only notice it when it's not there. In space we cheat gravity; falling just as fast but missing the ground. Now this fundamental universal force is slowly giving up its secrets.

The interface between Earth and space is the Ionosphere, a region of rarified gas and charged particles. It is very important for radio communications, radar, satellite signals and global positioning. Yet we know so little about it.

The sky above is studded with stars and countless galaxies. In them, we can read not only our origin, but also our final destination. Technology is on the brink of taking us to places we have only dreamed of.

The moon is our closest celestial companion. It lights our night sky and gently tugs at our shores. Few have walked on her surface, but her allure remains strong.

They orbit between our planet and our star. Mercury and Venus make up half of our terrestrial planets, but we still know very little about them. As we take a closer look at our companions, we find more questions than answers.

Mars has fired our imagination for thousands of years. The tantilizing possibility of life has made it the most inviting planet in our solar system. It is the only other place that man may one day call home.

From the beginnings of our solar system 4.5 billions years ago, there remain many clues to reveal its evolution. Remnant debris, asteroids, and comets are what's left of the building blocks to our celestial neighborhood.

In the cold, dark expanse of our solar system, beyond the asteroid belt, lie the giant planets. Some can be seen with the naked eye, others have been visited by our camera. What secrets do they hold?

There are so many unanswered questions about the stars, the galaxies and the universe and just mapping what lies in the night sky is immensely difficult.

As our expertise in space technology increases there have been spin-offs in many areas: particularly in communications.

The most important planet in the solar system is our home, the Earth. It is the only planet we know that harbours life.

Space technologies are continuing to be refined and access to space is becoming cheaper.

The development of reliable, high-powered boosters has enabled researchers to send probes to distant planets.

Early in the life of the solar system Mars appears to have had Earth-like conditions.

The ringed planet is of immense interest to researchers who believe that Saturn's ring system will share similarities with the proto-planetary disc.

Currently the only destination for Astronauts and Cosmonauts is the orbiting research platform known as the International Space Station.

By 2050 mankind will be living on the moon, and perhaps even Mars

Flying cars are coming, but when?

What would happen if many of the products we use every day were made in our homes and not factories?

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth’s surface, yet are less explored than the Moon.

Virtual reality, simulated environments, realistic video game worlds, and AI are all coming by 2050.

More people are moving to cities than ever before. And that’s changing the ways of millions of people.

Chuck Pell goes to New York’s fashion district to try the latest…in electric clothes.

In the future farms are moving from the countryside into the city, and they’re going straight up.

Effects from the Indo-Asian collision were felt thousands of kilometers away. The deforming pressure towards the East created Indochina, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan. How else could the remains of primitive Asians have been found in Java?

One billion years ago there was just one great continent on earth. It began to break apart and Europe drifted away. Tectonic collisions, tropical vegetation, inland seas and hot lagoons are what temperate contemporary Europe is made of.

Over time, the Atlantic Ocean widened. Then Africa moved north, struck Europe and birthed the Alps. Erosion, volcanic activity, and ice ages fashioned an extraordinarily rich and varied continent, ready for the arrival of human beings.

Africa is Mother Earth. Gondwana, the first, single, landmass broke apart into today's continents, but its heart is Africa. Land of rifts, lakes and volcanoes, Africa's mineral deposits testify to its eons-old history.

Humans refine and evolve weapons designs over the millennia to gain the upper hand.

Pioneering breakthroughs from across the globe shape the ability to travel.

The first data-recording device from over 5,000 years ago; how weaving creates binary code.

From living in caves to grand mansions, shelter has always been high on the list of priorities.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of rock and iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and it still orbits happily around the sun.

By far the largest planet, 1300 times the size of Earth, it’s a world so enormous it could swallow every planet and moon in the solar system and still have room to spare.

Naked Science follows the story of a diamond from the creation of carbon inside the heart of a dying sun, through to the cutting of a diamond mine in South Africa.

no info available