Duration: 4'10''
The crack TV science team investigate how many atoms there are in our bodies.
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S1E15: Digestion | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork explore the digestive system of Colin the floor manager.
S3E1: Blood | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the question 'How does my heart keep beating?'
S3E10: Time Zone | Brain Freeze
In this time zone special, Knowles and McCork ask 'Why does the Earth spin on its axis?'
S3E11: Parachute | Brain Freeze
McCork and Ms Hucklebuck are in the sky as they ask 'How does a parachute work?'
S3E12: Walk | Brain Freeze
McCork and Knowles ask 'How long would it take to walk the Earth?'
S3E14: Taste | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask 'Why do we make saliva while we eat?'
S3E2: Plastic | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the question 'How much plastic is there in the oceans?'
S3E3: Invisible | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the question 'Which animal can turn invisible?'
S3E4: Space Food | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the question 'Could pineapples grow on the moon?'
S3E5: Teeth | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the question 'Why do we have baby teeth?'
S3E6: Salty | Brain Freeze
Live from the seaside, Knowles and McCork ask the question 'Why is the sea salty?'
S3E7: Plant Life | Brain Freeze
Knowles and McCork ask the impossible question 'How many plants are there in the world?'
S3E8: Ice | Brain Freeze
McCork and Hucklebuck attempt to break the record for the world's biggest ice cream cone.
S3E9: Ancestors | Brain Freeze
Dr Knowles and Professor McCork ask the question 'Are we all related?'
15: Forces and Motion Special | Horrible Science
A weird and wonderful look at how gravity, magnetism and friction impact everything. With Fred Sirieix.
Cattle feedyard | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
Liz Bonnin visits a cattle feedyard, a mass factory farm, that contains about 50,000 cows.
02: People of the Forest | Landmarks
People of the Forest looks at the Baka of the Cameroon & the Kayapo of South America & how their lives work in balance with the rainforest.
3: Mary Ploppins, Magnets and Sorting Your Bits Out | Horrible Science
Mary Ploppins soothes those digestive ills, Dr Big Brain tries banana power, and Einstein reacts to Ti...
9: Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken | Horrible Science
Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.
Climate injustice | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The people and areas that are being most affected by climate change are often those which contribute the least.
Piling on pounds | Life
Brown bears take advantage of a salmon run to fatten up for the winter.
Plastic in the sea | My Life
Isabel searches for plastic in the ocean around Bali, and explains that not all plastics in the sea are visible.
Return of the Emperors | Dynasties
Emperor penguins return to the newly-frozen sea ice to breed.
S1E21: Staying Cool | Nina and the Neurons
Joe has written to Nina because whenever he builds a snowman, it melts. Nina visits the mountains of Andorra to learn about stayin...
Synchronised hunting | The Hunt
Working in perfect unison the dolphins charge to the shore, creating a bow wave that carries their prey onto the muddy banks where the dolphi...
The pollination process | The Private Life of Plants
David Attenborough describes the process of pollination and how this helps plants reproduce.
The smallest fox with the biggest ears! | Super Cute Animals (video)
The fennec's ears help it to survive in the heat of the desert dunes.
01: The Living Forest | Landmarks
The Living Forest looks at all the animals & plants that live in the forest on the ground to the forest canopy, & shows how they live in ba...
03: Destroying the Forest | Landmarks
By the next century, the rainforests of the world could have disappeared for ever, destroyed by outside influences and economic pressur...
04: Saving the Forest | Landmarks
Despite the destruction, there are ways to save the forest, by careful harvesting, protecting, learning, replanting, policing - and campaig...
1: Gravity the Musical, a T-rex and Vampires on Holiday | Horrible Science
A totally wicked song about gravity, a T-rex going to see a doctor, vampires on holiday, and Sir I...
10: Real Mutants, Volcanoes and Drinking Vomit | Horrible Science
The Real Mutants assemble, people are drinking vomit and electrocuting themselves for science, and the eart...
11: Dragon's Blood, Rude Flowers and Wibbly Wobbly Gravity | Horrible Science
Big Brain has a chemical catastrophe, Sir Isaac Newton rides a coaster again, with shocking res...
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