Playlist
<p>In the tropical forests of the Amazon thrive creatures, "Minimonsters," that seem straight out of a science fiction movie: membracids. These strange and tiny insects with spectacular shapes are the focus of an international mission attempting to catalog them and understand their survival strategies.</p>
<p>This documentary is an extraordinary journey through time and space that explores the secrets of the oceans covering three-quarters of the Earth. With spectacular underwater footage and 3D animation, scientists reveal the formation of oceans, prehistoric deep-sea organisms, and the development of life in the sea.</p>
<p>Fossil fuel reserves are nearly depleted, and renewable energy alone will not meet our needs. Nuclear fusion is a potential energy source but incredibly difficult to master. Scientists are exploring three main experimental methods, including plasma control—could it be the future of nuclear fusion?</p>
<p>In precisely 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the privilege of completing a full orbit around the Earth. This provides an opportunity to take the pulse of our planet, witness the beauty, diversity, and vibrancy of life on Earth, and assess, with key statistics, humanity's impact.</p>
<p>Why do men and women behave so differently? Is it a matter of biology? This film examines everything contributing to the construction of sexual identity: brain anatomy, brain imaging, the role of chromosomes, genes, and hormones, as well as prehistory, education, and psychoanalysis.</p>
<p>Off the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, basking sharks gather annually for four months. This exceptional site for observing marine life and birds offers a chance to study these "gentle sharks," which feed exclusively on plankton, and to discover gray seals, gulls, cormorants, guillemots, and gannets.</p>
<p>From nanomaterials to nanomachines, nanotechnology promises a world of stain-free surfaces, communicative dust, and possibly molecule-machines assembling tomorrow's products. Coating, strengthening, creating new materials, and storing energy—nanotechnology holds both scientific and economic significance.</p>
<p>Among rats, some get wet... and others don't. This film on animal behavior is based on an experimental setup where rats must cross a pool to obtain food. Can these observations teach us something about our own behaviors?</p>
<p>Thanks to spectacular advances in genetics and fetal medicine, the tiny being a few centimeters long, once left to grow in its mother's womb, has become an unwitting patient. We can see it, examine it, but rarely treat it. In trying to unravel the mystery, we have created doubt.</p>
<p>Pierre-Jean Vazel is obsessed with numbers. Since birth, they have been for him a smell, a sound, a movement, a texture, a color. From an early age, he meticulously studied all athletic statistics. Later, this singular self-taught individual trained a Nigerian athlete, outside any institution, who became the sixth-fastest man in the 100m and world champion in the 60m!</p>
<p>This scientific entertainment documentary relies on numerous visual experiments based on the latest discoveries about cephalopod intelligence, particularly octopuses. We follow four years of an octopus’s life, decoding its physical and intellectual peculiarities. A fabulous discovery!</p>
<p>Through spectacular imagery, enlightening scientific content, and fascinating narration, we uncover the planetary forces that shaped human history. Since the dawn of civilization, a network of active faults has provided resources for civilizations to flourish while also causing terrible catastrophes.</p>
<p>Following an eruption, the volcanic landscape of Mount St. Helens comes back to life through the intricate relationships between plants, animals, and the Earth—connections that are usually difficult to observe.</p>
<p>Lars, a young Swede, studies cinema in Chile. He discovers that children in the Chuño mountains are falling ill due to toxic waste from his hometown in Sweden. He investigates. Is the mining company involved responsible? Lars finds the former environmental director, who decides to accompany him to Chile.</p>
<p>What explains the apparent recolonization of Chernobyl by nature? In this exclusion zone, still forbidden to humans, where radioactivity shifts with the seasons, zoologists and radioecologists make surprising discoveries. Could nature be reclaiming its rights?</p>
<p>The bones discovered in 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia belong to a new human species that lived a few thousand years ago. Homo floresiensis was barely the size of a modern child and lived on an island inhabited by dwarf elephants and giant dragons. Dive into a dreamlike yet scientifically accurate universe.</p>
<p>The lotus has always fascinated people; its leaves repel water, showcasing the "lotus effect." When researchers finally uncover its secret, it opens a whole new scientific field—bionics, a discipline inspired by nature to invent new technologies and solve current challenges.</p>
<p>Her name is Green, and she faces a world that is no longer hers. Green takes the viewer from the lush Indonesian forest to the nightmare caused by its destruction: the loss of biodiversity, particularly the extinction of orangutans.</p>
<p>The promises of regenerative medicine using stem cells are immense. This film explores the future of this field and the ethical questions posed by technologies that might one day be used to create human bodies.</p>
<p>Quants are the mathematical geniuses, programmers, and creators of financial products that led to Wall Street's collapse. The crash revealed how dependent the global financial system has become on mathematical models attempting to quantify human (economic) behavior. A story of greed, fear, and randomness, seen from inside Wall Street.</p>
<p>Dissatisfied with traditional market studies, marketers are turning to brain sciences to decode our subconscious and understand our desires. Misused neuroscience applications could pose a new threat to individual freedoms. This film examines this new facet of consumer society.</p>
<p>Lightning is both fascinating and terrifying. Recent research reveals that storms and lightning in Africa are the origins of Atlantic hurricanes. They are even connected to climate change and influence Earth's magnetic field. Where does lightning come from? How is a billion volts generated, discharged, and where does it go?</p>
<p>An investigation into a global ecological disaster that could jeopardize humanity: one-third of our food directly depends on bees, the most important agricultural pollinators. For years, millions of bees have been mysteriously disappearing. Why? Will we be able to address this looming catastrophe?</p>
<p>Oceans contain thousands of pieces of plastic that kill and mutilate fish, mammals, and seabirds. Scientists alert us to the scale of this pollution, which releases chemicals into the environment, with effects on animals and humans that are just beginning to be understood.</p>
<p>Cell phones recycled into gold ingots, airplanes reincarnated as scooters, glass shards, and old tires transformed into sustainable homes... Waste can be a resource. This film presents an educational and entertaining inventory of future solutions.</p>
<p>In western France, deep within a forest, we discover a dried-up river. Farmers are growing water-hungry corn. Through a poetic lens, the film explores the battle raging between "blue gold" and the "golden grain." A frank perspective that questions environmental preservation and our relationship with nature.</p>
<p>By the age of three, most of us can count. And once we learn, it’s as if nothing can stop us from counting to infinity. Enter a world of paradoxes where nothing is truly what it seems. Mathematicians have discovered that there are infinite infinities. Older than time, larger than the universe, and stranger than fiction, this is the story of infinity.</p>
<p>The magnetic North Pole, towards which all the compasses of the world point, constantly moves and cyclically reverses every 250,000 years. But the last reversal happened 780,000 years ago… Are we on the verge of a pole reversal? What would the consequences be for our technology-dependent societies?</p>
<p>If we want to avoid the announced climate catastrophe, we must halve CO2 emissions. But energy consumption is expected to double by 2050. The time for doubt is over. The price we assign to carbon is the value we give to our future…</p>
<p>The rapid advancement of brain sciences today enables revolutionary medical treatments, involving electrical stimulation of the brain. The film raises troubling questions about the man-machine relationship, the ethics of scientific progress, and the mysteries of our mind.</p>
<p>2, 3, 5, 7, 11… Behind the seemingly random sequence of prime numbers, mathematicians have long sought a fundamental order. Recent studies have revealed a potential link between prime numbers and the physical laws governing the universe.</p>
<p>Scientists are trying to unravel the secret behind fish schools and bird flocks. They aim to understand these intelligent collective movements, particularly to apply these swarming models to machines.</p>
<p>Seductive, aggressive, and communicative, meet remarkable plants. They repel their enemies, develop intervention strategies among themselves, and "hunt" their prey... From Mexican acacias to the carnivorous plants of Borneo, discover the hidden power of plants.</p>
<p>No diamond has known a more thrilling story: the saga of Louis XIV's blue diamond spans three centuries and three continents. Cut by the court jeweler, it was stolen during the Revolution. Twenty years later, another smaller diamond appeared on the market: the Hope Diamond. Could it be the mythical blue diamond recut?</p>
<p>A portrait of Étienne Klein through his love for mountains and the physicists of the quantum revolution...</p>
<p>Fred decides to conduct his "carbon footprint" assessment. In the laboratory truck, Jamy answers the following questions: what is the greenhouse effect? How do we measure the impact of a mass-market product on the planet? In what types of subsoils can CO2 storage be considered? What is the impact of deforestation on the greenhouse effect?</p>
<p>In 2004, eleven African countries united to address a major ecological challenge: desertification in the Sahel. This led to the creation of the Great Green Wall project. The ambition is to create a vast ecologically and economically viable forested area for local populations, a major issue for these countries.</p>
<p>Léa, a 10-year-old girl, lives in the countryside and spends her free time between her passion for nature and her love for animals. She travels to Congo, tracing the western lowland gorillas, sharing the daily life of Rosette, who lives at the heart of one of the three largest primary forests on the planet.</p>
<p>Today, madness spills into the streets and prisons. Psychiatric hospitals struggle to care for long-term patients. A new mental health policy is being prepared in Europe: tomorrow, we will speak only of brain disorders and behaviors to be re-educated. But what will become of them?</p>
<p>Joseph Weizenbaum, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, believes that each individual is responsible for promoting a more humanistic world. He argues that the more responsibilities we give to computers, the more our perception of humanity will change, ultimately leading us to see ourselves as mere machines…</p>
<p>Long after the extinction of the dinosaurs, other species of giant beasts roamed the Earth: the megafauna. In Australia, scientists using recent advances in science and technology are working to reconstruct the final moments of the most bizarre creatures ever to walk the planet.</p>
<p>Understanding clouds—their shapes, colors, and composition—is understanding the weather. The film sheds light on the secrets of the water cycle and atmospheric phenomena: violent storms, floods, hail, and snow. What we learn sometimes even challenges preconceived ideas... Predicting the whims of the weather is the challenge of meteorology.</p>
<p>For a long time, we believed that the Stone Age, which occurred 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, was a period when humans were limited to a hunter-gatherer state under harsh conditions. New discoveries reveal a more flourishing period, where humans developed social structures and were already transitioning to agriculture.</p>
<p>The triple crisis—climatic, financial, and energy-related—is forcing governments to seriously consider "green economy" as the future of sustainable development.</p>
<p>After World War II, the Allies took over German scientists who had just invented jet engines and ballistic missiles. By the 1950s, the Soviets and Americans were engaged in a fierce competition to send a man into space. The space race had begun.</p>