Spared by cancer, diabetes and possibly Alzheimer’s, men and women of small stature are intriguing scientists that are trying to postpone age-related illnesses. What mechanisms protect these small Ecuadorian from certain illnesses? From Quito to Los Angeles, via Tel-Aviv, the film follows the revolutionary research, step-by-step, that is attempting to understand and prevent diseases such as cancer. And outlines ways to live in good health… for as long as possible.
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...
If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few ...
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fi...
10,000 years ago, the European forests were inhabited by huge cattle with protruding horns: the auro...
In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to def...
Can science help us understand these crimes?
The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patie...
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...
How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin...
Introduction to DNA by Frank Baxter and Bell Labs.
A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning - the belief that some groups ...
The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can...
The onset of the 21st Century will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human w...
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to ...
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme inv...
In a television first, Fat Family Tree sets out to prove that unlocking the secrets of a fat family’...
In the Western world, the life expectancy for most of us is around 80 years of age. But in every cor...
The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that pr...