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Horizon : Season 43
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Air date: 12 Jan '06 - 19 episodesHorizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
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List of Episodes (19)
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1. Space Tourists
12 Jan '06Is a space tourism revolution just around the corner?
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2. Waiting for a Heartbeat
19 Jan '06The story of three women as they attempt to overcome the odds and give birth to a baby.
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3. A War on Science
26 Jan '06Horizon explores a new theory of evolution.
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4. The Lost City of New Orleans
02 Feb '06The coastline that protects the city of New Orleans is sinking into the ocean. Horizon explores what can be done to save the city if it is worth saving at all.
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5. Most of Our Universe Is Missing
09 Feb '06Only 4% of our universe is made from stuff we understand. Horizon explores the 96% that is made up of the elusive substance 'Dark Matter'.
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6. Winning Gold in 2012
18 Mar '06An investigation into the scientific approach to sporting success, as demonstrated by the former East Germany and latterly Australia. British children are already in training for the London Olympics and the programme looks at what it takes to produce a successful modern Olympian.
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7. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow
08 Jun '06The amazing story of Dr Temple Grandin's ability to read the animal mind, which has made her the most famous autistic woman on the planet.
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8. The Genius Sperm Bank
15 Jun '06The curious tale of an American millionaire optometrist and his dream to save humanity.
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9. Bye Bye Planet Pluto
22 Jun '06Is Pluto really a planet? Is it just an asteroid? Horizon investigates.
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10. We Love Cigarettes
29 Jun '06The science series explores varying attitudes to smoking around the world. Filmed in a single day, the documentary meets the people whose lives are defined by the cigarette. Contributors include Allen Carr, who claims he may get viewers to quit by the end of the programme, the inventor of the nicotine patch Dr Jed Rose and Dr Chris Proctor, the chief scientist at British American Tobacco who has the tricky task of making a safer cigarette.
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11. Nuclear Nightmares
13 Jul '06Horizon explores the topical scientific issues investigates, the truth behind our fear of radioactivity and asks whether our nuclear nightmares really are based on reality. From Hiroshima to Chernobyl scientists have been studying the impact of exposure to radiation for over 60 years and have always assumed that any level of radiation is bad. But now some scientists are questioning the power of radiation to cause cancer and finding evidence to suggest that it may have beneficial health effects.
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12. Tutankhamun's Fireball
20 Jul '06A team of scientists set out to solve the mystery of chunks of ancient glass scattered in a remote part of the Sahara Desert. Their quest takes them on a perilous journey into the Great Sand Sea, the wastes of Siberia and the test site of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico. What their search uncovers is a devastating new natural phenomenon.
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13. Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes
03 Oct '06Over 90% of plane crashes have survivors. Horizon investigate what you can do to increase your chances.
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14. Chimps are People Too
10 Oct '06Danny Wallace is on a mission to convince the world that chimps are people are to. If they are should they have the same rights as people?
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15. The Worlds First Face Transplant
17 Oct '06In 2005, Isabelle Dinoire become the first person to receive a new face. The decision made by French surgeons to perform the operation went against the findings of almost every other ethical committee in the world and has since sparked a fierce debate over the ethics of the operation. In the UK, a team led by Peter Butler struggles to get approval to perform the first full face transplant. Do the risks outweigh the benefits? Are face transplants really in the best interest of the patient?
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16. Human v2.0
24 Oct '06It has been predicted that by 2029 computers will be powerful enough to rival that of the human brain. Will be able to download ourselves into a computer and live forever? Or will a race of super intelligent destructive machines rise. The only thing we know for sure is the moment is coming and whatever it brings is inevitable.
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17. The Great Robot Race
31 Oct '0620 robotic cars, with no drivers and no remote controls, race across the Nevada desert. Horizon follows 3 teams and their cars as they develop their vehicles.
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18. Pandemic
07 Nov '06A simple virus that started in the belly of a dead bird is set to embark on a global killing spree. H5N1 - a bird flu virus with the potential to become humanised and mutate into the next pandemic flu virus. Horizon explores what could happen if a flu pandemic hits. The last flu pandemic in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. A virus today can spread much easier, much faster and there are estimates that hundreds of millions could be infected and potentially die.
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19. We are the Aliens
14 Nov '06Clouds of alien life forms are sweeping through outer space and infecting planets with life – it may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. The idea that life on Earth came from another planet has been around as a modern scientific theory since the 1960s when it was proposed by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. At the time they were ridiculed for their idea – known as panspermia. But now, with growing evidence, it's back in vogue and even being studied by NASA. Horizon meets the
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