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.

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fi...

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...

Can science help us understand these crimes?

Is our life predetermined from birth? Does our genes determine our personality and behavior? Is ther...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can...

10,000 years ago, the European forests were inhabited by huge cattle with protruding horns: the auro...

How did your body become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today? Anatomist Neil Shubin...

Immortality and eternal life: Will this great human dream come true? In any case, cryonics is making...

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 ...

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to ...

The onset of the 21st Century will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human w...

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme inv...
This animated film was made by RIKEN Omics Science Center for the "Beyond DNA" exhibition at the Nat...
In a television first, Fat Family Tree sets out to prove that unlocking the secrets of a fat family’...