Intellect

Mars, the Red Planet — the 1938 radio panic, its seasons and frozen poles, and the wild theory that an intelligent Marti...

Jupiter has no solid surface, just a colossal mass of gas and liquids. A look at the largest planet in the solar system...

The series concludes with Uranus, Neptune and poor Pluto, which was struck off the list of planets, plus Eris, the dwarf...

Sophia the humanoid robot sparked panic about machines taking over the world. Part one traces automata from the Pharaohs...

Leonardo da Vinci drew helicopters, tanks, ball bearings and a mechanical knight centuries ahead of his time. Part two f...

Asimov's three laws of robotics, and whether they are fact or fiction. Part three explores the long history of artificia...

Sophia the humanoid robot, robotic surgeons, nano-robots and killer drone swarms: how AI reshapes medicine and war, and...

The penultimate episode: Sophia, Elon Musk, Atlas and Google, Michio Kaku on when machines might "wake up", quantum comp...

The final episode: building two simple robots by hand, one basic and one voice-controlled, open-source designs, and how...

Lydia Fairchild was accused of not being her children's mother after DNA tests, until doctors discovered she was a chime...

Cancer is not contagious, yet rare contagious cancers do pass from body to body, from Tasmanian devils to a surgeon infe...

Why the scale can lie, why sugar and insulin are the real enemy, how cortisol and stress block fat loss, and why healthy...