Testosterone, serotonin and violence | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Brain areas and aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Dr Raine's research into aggression showed the important role of different brain areas including the pre-...

Childhood experience and violent crime | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Scientists explain how different childhood experiences and socialisation can lead to an indiv...

Early biological theories of aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Lombrosso's early ideas about the biological basis for criminal behaviour and the subsequent...

Lombroso's Theories of Crime | The Mystery Of Murder: A Horizon Guide

When looking at the reasons why people offend, Lombroso, a scientist in the 19th century, believed he h...

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why pe...

04: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 4...

Impact of nature on physical and mental health | Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

Michael Mosley discusses the importance of spending time in nature and how this can imp...

The complexity of brain surgery | Inside the Human Body

A little girl, Angelina, requires complex brain surgery in order to alleviate the systoms she is suffering as a resul...

Lombroso's Theories of Crime | The Mystery Of Murder: A Horizon Guide

When looking at the reasons why people offend, Lombroso, a scientist in the 19th century, believed he h...

Treating diabetes with an artificial pancreas | Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

In this clip we discover what diabetes is and a new way of treating the condition compared to the trad...

The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs

Michael Mosley introduces the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and Superbugs.

02: A Matter of Taste | The Secrets of Your Food

Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the science of our food. James visits the Peruvian Andes to learn how a bitter potato h...

Sleep | The Truth About...

We are one of the most sleep-deprived countries in the world. In The Truth About Sleep, insomniac Michael Mosley finds out what happens if we don'...

Chemical weapons | Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility

Introducing the idea of chemical and biological weapons, leading onto pathogens.

The Wonderful World of Blood - with Michael Mosley

Michael Mosley gives up a fifth of his own blood to perform six bold experiments. From starving it of oxygen to injecting ...

The 1890s | The Victorian Slum

A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the 1890s, when Britain was slowly recovering from a...

01: The First 8 Weeks | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

Michael Mosley presents the story of how you were made, in a series produced in partnership with T...

Is Your Brain Male or Female? | Horizon

Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate whether male and female brains really are wired differently.

Infested! Living with Parasites

Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...

Fast Tales

During the most demanding Ramadan for over 30 years, Dr Saleyha Ahsan meets prominent British Muslims undertaking 16 hour fasting days throughout July and talks t...

02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors...

Pain message | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Painkillers act at different points along the pain pathways to turn the pain response down.

How respiratory viruses spread | Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them

An explanation of how respiratory viruses can spread by causing us to cough and sneeze.

The large intestine | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach

A camera travels through the last part of the digestive system and explores the role of the ...

03: Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...