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Deadly Science

6 episodes 94%4KCC

Brilliant minds chase progress into danger, from launchpads to ancient laboratories.

Explore the high stakes behind breakthroughs in flight, space, medicine, exploration, and discovery. This season follows innovators and explorers whose bold ideas changed history, while revealing the risks, failures, and human costs that came with pushing beyond accepted limits. Sign up to watch the moments when ambition, ingenuity, and danger collide.

Episode guide

6 episodes
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1Dangerous Heights
Since the beginning of humankind, gravity has ensured that we are firmly anchored to the earth. But humans are ambitious beings, always striving for the next conquest and pushing the limits of what is possible. What made us take to the skies - and who were the dreamers who dared to defy gravity?
52 min
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2Female Inventors
When the future seems just around the corner, who can say who is the right person to grab it? Although the history of science and discovery has always favored the male gender, many women have also fearlessly ventured into the exciting unknown.
52 min
3
3Against Nature
Mother Nature is complex and powerful. She can be beautiful, but she can also be deadly. It gives life, but it can also destroy it. Understanding nature - its rules, its intricacies - has been a task for millennia.
52 min
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4Long Forgotten Tracks
Off the beaten track, on the fringes of the known universe, in the furthest corners of creation, secrets are waiting to be revealed. Under mounds of earth untouched for millennia, in the depths of the Brazilian rainforest, in the most inaccessible places we find the seeds of great ideas.
52 min
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5In the Name of Medicine
Advances in medicine are never easy and often controversial. Early scientists had to take great risks to understand the human body and make life-saving discoveries.
52 min
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6Ahead of Their Time
When a world-changing idea appears out of nowhere, what happens to those brave enough to bring it to light? When disruptors trample the world and cry out to new understanding and science, history remembers those brave visionaries who were willing to pay the ultimate price.
52 min
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