The BEST episodes of Horizon season 2013
Every episode of Horizon season 2013, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Horizon season 2013!
Amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
#1 - What Makes us Human?
Season 2013 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/3/2013
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What is that separates us from our closest living relatives - the chimpanzees? We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and yet from the moment of birth, our lives are completely different. So are we just another animal, or is there something special about being human? Before her new baby emerges into the world, Professor Roberts sets out to explore what it is about our bodies, our genes and ultimately our brains that set us apart from our furry cousins - what is it that truly makes us human?
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#2 - The Truth about Taste
Season 2013 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/2013
Taste is our most indulgent sense but it is only in recent years that we have started to understand why we really love the foods we do - and it is a lot more surprising than you might think. There may a way to make food taste sweeter without adding any extra sugar and it is all down to a trick that happens in your brain. Horizon meets the scientist who has grown the perfect tomato, that is sweeter and juicier than anything you are likely to find on a shelf, as well as the men and women hoping to become elite, professional tasters.
#3 - The Truth About Personality
Season 2013 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/10/2013
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances, Mosley is a pessimist who constantly frets about the future. He wants to worry less and become more of an optimist. He tries out two techniques to change this aspect of his personality - with surprising results. And he travels to the frontiers of genetics and neuroscience to find out about the forces that shape all our personalities.
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#4 - The Creative Brain: How Insight Works
Season 2013 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2013
It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out how these moments of creativity - whether big, small or life-changing - come about. They have devised a series of puzzles and brainteasers to draw out our creative behaviour, while the very latest neuroimaging technology means researchers can actually peer inside our brains and witness the creative spark as it happens. What they are discovering could have the power to make every one of us more creative.
#5 - How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery
Season 2013 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2013
A&E doctor Kevin Fong finds out how doctors can avoid making mistakes in the high-pressure, high-stakes world of the operating theatre. He sets out to learn how other professionals make life and death decisions under pressure, from airline pilots facing emergencies, to the Fire Service dealing with lethal blazes, to the world of Formula One pit crews. Kevin discovers how all these fields are helping to make surgery safer.
#6 - Fracking: The New Energy Rush
Season 2013 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/19/2013
Investigating the controversial process of mining natural gas via hydraulic fracturing.
#7 - Defeating the Hackers
Season 2013 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/19/2013
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them. Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines.
#8 - The Age of Big Data
Season 2013 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/2013
In Los Angeles, a remarkable experiment is underway; the police are trying to predict crime, before it even happens. At the heart of the city of London, one trader believes that he has found the secret of making billions with math. In South Africa, astronomers are attempting to catalogue the entire cosmos. These very different worlds are united by one thing - an extraordinary explosion in data. Horizon meets the people at the forefront of the data revolution, and reveals the possibilities and the promise of the age of big data
#9 - Swallowed by a Black Hole
Season 2013 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2013
The black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is getting ready to feast. A gas cloud three times the size of our planet has strayed within the gravitational reach of our nearest supermassive black hole.
#10 - What's Killing Our Bees? A Horizon Special
Season 2013 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/2/2013
Bill Turnbull investigates one of the biggest mysteries in the British countryside: what is killing our bees. It is a question that generates huge controversy. Changes in the weather, pesticides and even a deadly virus have all all been blamed. It is a question that Bill is all too familiar with as a beekeeper himself. He meets the scientists who are fitting minute radar transponders on to bees to try to find answers.
#11 - Monitor Me
Season 2013 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/12/2013
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor ourselves around the clock. How we exercise, how we sleep, even how we sit.
#12 - Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life
Season 2013 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/26/2013
The hunt for life within the long-dead bones of dinosaurs may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy - but one woman has found traces of life within the fossilised bones of a T Rex. Dr Mary Schweitzer has seen the remains of red blood cells and touched the soft tissue of an animal that died 68 million years ago. Most excitingly of all, she believes she may just have found signs of DNA. Her work is revolutionising our understanding of these iconic beasts.
#13 - The Secret Life of the Cat
Season 2013 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/13/2013
Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap.
#14 - Little Cat Diaries
Season 2013 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/14/2013
Looks at the cats who stood out in the experiment conducted in The Secret Life of the Cat.
#15 - Sex: A Horizon Guide
Season 2013 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/11/2013
Sex is a simple word for a very complex set of desires. It cuts to the core of our passions, our wants, our emotions. But when it goes wrong, it can be the most painful thing of all. Professor Alice Roberts looks through 45 years of Horizon archive to see how science came to understand sex, strived to solve our problems with it, and even help us to do it better. Can science save the day when sex goes wrong?