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.

Six young women programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of...

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to l...

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and extreme weather. Has Earth always been this way? Feat...

Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders ...

Two parts documentary about the brain: "The Magic of the Unconscious" and "The Power of the Unconsci...
A self described "documediamentary" about the reactions to the release of the then final Star Wars f...

An inside look at the making of the movie Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), featuri...

Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West ...

Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists th...

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theor...

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines ...

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the...

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe. Through a series of critical ...

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

An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 mill...

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...

Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; Jame...

Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a journey into the science of bubbles - not just fun toys, bu...
Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin set up base camp at one of the UK's biggest sewage works to in...

A guided tour into the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. Discusses and ...