Is building our own starship Enterprise possible? Will we ever travel between the stars as easily as they do in Star Trek? JJ Abrams' new feature, Star Trek Into Darkness, hits the screen in a golden age of scientific discoveries. HISTORY is there, giving viewers a deep look behind the scenes, on the set, and into the science–amazing new exoplanets, the physics of Warp drive, and the ideas behind how we might one day live in a Star Trek Universe.

More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on o...

This 90-minute documentary brings to life Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s international bestseller, “The Cloud...

The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectru...
A documentary about the 1999 discovery of a Mastodon skeleton in a Hyde Park backyard.

This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history...

A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by cha...

Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century....

An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film ...

Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in nat...

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...

Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; devel...

Evolutionary biologist Professor Armand Leroi believes data science can transform the pop world. He ...
In 2009, students of all walks of life at the Arts & Learning Children's Conservatory in Anaheim...
This Emotional Life is a three-part series that explores improving our social relationships, learnin...

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichoto...

In 1962, spurred by the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy famously made the bold proclamation that...

As society tackles the problem of feeding our expanding population safely and sustainably, a schism ...

Unmasks fraudulent cover-ups, wild speculations, and deceitful myths that have been presented as the...

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and scie...