Arctic Dinosaurs
Episode: 36x01 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2008
Experts in Alaska investigate how dinosaurs managed to thrive in polar regions.
Episodes
Space Shuttle Disaster
Episode: 36x02 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2008
An investigation uncovers the human failures and design flaws behind the 2003 Columbia tragedy.
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Episode: 36x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2008
Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics.
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Episode: 36x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2008
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.
Alien from Earth
Episode: 36x05 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2008
Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species?
The Bible's Buried Secrets
Episode: 36x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2008
An archeological detective story traces the origins of the Hebrew Bible
Ocean Animal Emergency
Episode: 36x07 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2008
Wildlife veterinarians struggle to save injured seals and sea lions on the California coast.
Is There Life on Mars?
Episode: 36x08 | Airdate: Dec 30, 2008
The decades-long search for life on the Red Planet heats up with the discovery of frozen water.
The Big Energy Gamble
Episode: 36x09 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2009
Can California's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases actually succeed?
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Episode: 36x10 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2009
Follow the extraordinary 2,000-mile migration of monarch butterflies to a sanctuary in the highlands of Mexico.
The Spy Factory
Episode: 36x11 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2009
Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism.
Rat Attack
Episode: 36x12 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2009
Why do huge swarms of rats overrun a bamboo forest in India once every half-century?
Extreme Ice
Episode: 36x13 | Airdate: Mar 24, 2009
An acclaimed photographer teams up with scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic glaciers.
Last Extinction (Megabeasts' Sudden Death)
Episode: 36x14 | Airdate: Mar 31, 2009
Scientists propose a radical new idea of what killed off mammoths and other large animals at the end of the Ice Age.
Doctors' Diaries (1)
Episode: 36x15 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2009
Seven doctors, 21 years... Saving lives is only part of the story. Part 1 of 2.
Doctors' Diaries (2)
Episode: 36x16 | Airdate: Apr 14, 2009
Seven doctors, 21 years... Saving lives is only part of the story. Part 2 of 2.
Musical Minds
Episode: 36x17 | Airdate: Jun 30, 2009
Oliver Sacks explores how the power of music can make the brain come alive.
