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Your Brain: Perception Deception

Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. Learn the surprising tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
Season 50 Episode 9 Length 53:30 Premiere: 05/17/23

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Lee and Liza's Family Tree

S50 E18 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 11/22/23

The Battle to Beat Malaria

S50 E17 Length 53:54 Premiere Date 11/15/23

Inside China's Tech Boom

S50 E16 Length 53:19 Premiere Date 11/08/23

Ancient Earth: Humans

S50 E15 Length 53:15 Premiere Date 11/01/23

Ancient Earth: Inferno

S50 E14 Length 53:45 Premiere Date 10/25/23

Ancient Earth: Life Rising

S50 E13 Length 53:47 Premiere Date 10/18/23

Ancient Earth: Frozen

S50 E12 Length 53:46 Premiere Date 10/11/23

Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky

S50 E11 Length 53:47 Premiere Date 10/04/23

Your Brain: Who's in Control?

S50 E10 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 05/24/23

Your Brain: Perception Deception

S50 E9 Length 53:30 Premiere Date 05/17/23

Hidden Volcano Abyss

S50 E8 Length 53:20 Premiere Date 05/10/23

Saving the Right Whale

S50 E7 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 05/03/23

Chasing Carbon Zero

S50 E6 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 04/26/23

Weathering the Future

S50 E5 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 04/12/23

New Eye on the Universe

S50 E4 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 02/22/23

Ancient Builders of the Amazon

S50 E3 Length 53:22 Premiere Date 02/15/23

Star Chasers of Senegal

S50 E2 Length 53:20 Premiere Date 02/08/23

London Super Tunnel

S50 E1 Length 53:20 Premiere Date 02/01/23

Rare Fossil Appears to Show Mammal Attacking Dinosaur

Clip Length 03:26 Premiere Date 07/28/23

The nation’s first big offshore wind farm is coming

Clip Length 05:22 Premiere Date 07/21/23

What Made the Titan Submersible Design Unconventional?

Clip Length 05:05 Premiere Date 07/03/23

Your Brain: Perception Deception Preview

Preview Length 00:29 Premiere Date 05/17/23

How Your Brain Interprets Color

Clip Length 02:24 Premiere Date 05/17/23

Your Memories Are Not as True as You Think

Clip Length 03:51 Premiere Date 05/17/23

Could Whale Poop Help Cool the Planet?

Clip Length 02:43 Premiere Date 05/12/23

This Fungus Is Spreading Rapidly in Hospitals

Clip Length 03:24 Premiere Date 04/24/23

There’s Something Living in Wildfire Smoke

Clip Length 01:59 Premiere Date 04/11/23

How the West Is Making It Rain, With Science

Clip Length 06:22 Premiere Date 04/10/23

Soothing Science: The Light You See at Sunset

Clip Length 08:01 Premiere Date 04/04/23

The Mystery and Physics of the Spiral Football Pass

Clip Length 03:43 Premiere Date 02/13/23

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Great Mammoth Mystery - S49 E3

Sir David Attenborough explores a unique site in southern England with rare traces of Ice Age mammoths and Neanderthals. How did humans survive the frigid climate and did they have the tools and talent to hunt the giant beasts?

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Ghosts of Stonehenge - S44 E14

Premiered On: 10/11/2017

Who built Stonehenge, and why? Groundbreaking archaeological digs have revealed major new clues about Britain's enigmatic 5,000-year-old site and the people who constructed it.

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The Next Pompeii - S46 E6

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Discover Campi Flegrei, a lesser-known volcano in the shadow of Vesuvius, if it erupts, millions of lives could be at risk. Scientists explore its unique geology and develop a warning system that could prevent Naples from becoming the next Pompeii.

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Decoding the Great Pyramid - S46 E4

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New archaeological evidence provides clues about the Egyptians who built the Great Pyramid of Giza - and how they did it.

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Alaskan Dinosaurs - S48 E21

Wielding chainsaws to extract fossils frozen into the permafrost and flying drones to map thousands of footprints, intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the cold and dark of the Arctic Circle.

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Arctic Drift - S48 E13

Premiered On: 10/13/2021

Join scientists on the biggest Arctic research expedition of all time. Facing hungry polar bears, perilous sea ice cracks and brutal cold, the team strives to understand the forces that are changing the region and the world.

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Lee and Liza's Family Tree - S50 E18

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The Battle to Beat Malaria - S50 E17

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Inside China's Tech Boom - S50 E16

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Ancient Earth: Humans - S50 E15

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