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This micro-thriller documentary presents the world of ladybirds (coccinelles) through the perspective of their prey, the aphids. Combining humor and science, the film narrates the aphids' struggle to uncover the secrets of their predators, offering a unique and entertaining insight into the ecological interactions within a garden.
Tintin and his friends join Professor Calculus' top secret space program in Syldavian.
Taming your fears, learn about animals only different but not so bad, a first step towards respect. How does a snake move? Why does it pull its tongue? Does it really have cool blood?
This French documentary, presented by Fred and Jamy, explores the properties of hydrogen and its potential as a future energy source. The film delves into the science behind hydrogen, discussing its applications and the role it could play in sustainable energy solutions.
How did we become aware of the threat of climate change attributed to human activities? Forty years ago, many scientists were concerned about a new ice age. Ten years later, other scientists warned of the catastrophic dangers of global warming, and it seemed the debate was settled. But that was far from the reality...
Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, conducts its survey with specialists and scientists. What is the pupil? How can you recognize different tastes with your tongue? What is an olfactory receptor?
Laugh! Burst out laughing! Cry with laughter! Our body reacts extremely to the triggering of the phenomenon of laughter. But what actually happens, physically, chemically when we laugh? And is it really, as we believe, excellent for our health? With the help of hilarious experiments, Matière Grise has monitored laughers to understand, precisely, what happens in a body, a heart, a muscle, a brain, in short, an individual who laughs.
In northern Cameroon, in the Mandaras Mountains, the Mofu live a unique relationship with insects, sharing with them their homes and cultivations. This year however, a terrible drought hits the region and the termites, usually a precious ally to the Mofu, have left the fields and invaded the huts and granaries. To fight back, the Mofu people have no choice but to call for Jaglavak. Jaglavak is a ferocious army ant that has the body of a dragon. It is protected by a thick carapace and armed with terrifying pincers that cut, tear and slice through anything that falls victim to its voracity! Only Jaglavak can chase the termites out of the village.
Water and mud are probably the most conducive fields for life to emerge. It is from micro-organisms that life can develop, as it began to take shape four billion years ago. To understand the mysteries, Daniel Guiral, aquatic ecology specialist, has installed a water laboratory on the coast of French Guiana. In his footsteps, Luc Riolon filmed the whole cycle of life, from microscopic to macroscopic.
This documentary delves into the 2003 Ebola outbreak in the remote villages of northern Congo, which resulted in 157 fatalities. It examines the challenges of addressing a medical emergency while respecting local customs and beliefs. The film highlights the role of anthropologist Alain Epelboin, who collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to adapt medical practices to indigenous customs, aiming to bridge cultural gaps and enhance understanding between healthcare providers and the affected communities.
Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature's designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature - they are taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.
This documentary explores the scientific mechanisms of food. But beware, appetite can lead to obesity! An epidemic more dangerous than bird flu according to researchers at the University of Tübingen.
On September 13, 2006, the announcement that a gunman began his carnage at Dawson, lead the Montreal hospital to a strong mobilization. Several victims have escaped death thanks to quick and professional action of the paramedics and the trauma team at the hospital. How modern medicine and a cohesive team were able to take several victims of death?
Only few people know the story of these pioneers of space communications, the brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia. In the early 1960s, these amateurs and tinkerers of genius successfully pick up signals from the first top secret Russian and US space missions. Back on this extraordinary adventure.
Able to swim the breaststroke in the earth, to feel through walls, to carry earth columns ten times heavier than its own weight, to build underground megalopolis thanks to its perfect mastery of aeration, mole dazzles scientists around the world with its "super powers"...
For centuries, the animal world and the human world have been carefully kept separate. Humans once considered themselves to be at the summit of intelligence and sensitivity, denying "beasts" all possibility of intelligence and emotions. Yet, as researchers and scientists make one discovery after another, they gradually prove that the border between the two worlds is not quite as impenetrable as once thought.
This film shows the experiments made on rats in the States before exploring the human brain...
This documentary recounts the journey of Ham, the first chimpanzee launched into space, highlighting the intersection of animal life and space exploration.
After discovering the presence of water on Mars, space agencies from around the world have launched a formidable challenge: to send men to explore Mars. Today the countdown of this adventure without precedent in the history of humanity is raised ... We're heading for Mars!
On the dark walls of their caves, 17,000 years ago, they have traced the early history of the sky and its stars. The amazing birth of prehistoric astronomy ... And if Lascaux, the Sistine Chapel of prehistory, was originally a temple dedicated to the constellations...
Between 1968 and 1972, 12 men have walked on the moon. They remain the only humans to have known this other world. This film brings together for the first and probably last time the astronauts of the Apollo mission who flew to the moon. They tell their own epics on NASA archive footage often original and spectacular.
November 26 2007 promises to be an important day in the history of science. In a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the France/Swiss border, the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be put to use in one of the most ambitious experiments ever undertaken. The instrument is the Large Hadron Colider; the experiment is nothing less than a rerun of the big-bang.
Each week, men and women suffering from chronic pain visit Dr. Danziger at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. He listens to them, advises them, and tries to ease the pain that holds them in its grip, dedicating his research to it. One day, he hears about Alain Bastien, who, after a motorcycle accident, no longer feels any pain. After a series of experiments, Dr. Danziger discovers that Alain Bastien does indeed feel pain, but it no longer affects him—it has become indifferent to him...
Each of us draws, every day, without knowing it, a virtual portrait of oneself. How are these data used? What is the impact of the handling of personal data banks on our individual and collective lives?
Since the end of the last ice age, 20,000 years ago, a unique fauna has adapted, and with what ingenuity, to the polar regions. This adaptation is so complete that global warming threatens all the emblematic species of the cold: the polar bear, the caribou, the emperor penguin or the icefish, but also a whole terrestrial and marine fauna and flora that are still poorly understood. With the retreat of the ice pack, a mass extinction is brewing in the North, as in the South...
New Caledonia, a Pacific island that holds many metals in its subsoil, including nickel, an island that has a unique plant biodiversity in the world and the 2nd coral reef in the world. How can we reconcile the exploitation of this nickel with respect for the environment? Science is in great demand.
The sequel to MARS Dead or Alive follows the ups and downs of the Mars Exploration Rover scientists and engineers exploring Mars with twin robot geologists.
The discovery of thousands of engravings dating back to 25,000 B.C, which have laid exposed to the open air along the banks of the Portuguese River Coa, could revolutionise the way we imagine the lives and the purpose of art of our prehistoric ancestors. Rock art in caves may have been an exception. Thanks to a lowering of the river, a researchers team explores, for the first time, one of the most precious sites of European cultural heritage.
In Yakutia, a forgotten province of Siberia, anthropologist Eric Crubézy has unearthed a strange burial. It contains the body of a woman with blocked eyes, dressed in a pearl costume. Who was she? Why were her sleeves sewn at their ends? Princess or shaman? Edited like a detective film, this film follows the investigation of scientists in search of the identity of the mysterious unknown woman...
On 14 April 1912, two giants collided in the North Atlantic. A colossus which nature had made 15 000 years to shape a luxury liner and whose very name symbolizes the courage and confidence at the time: the Titanic. Here is the story of the most famous iceberg of all time!
Within a kitchen garden where no chemical treatments are used, bugs are everywhere. The more numerous they are, the more there are chances to find an "assistant gardener" insect preying on the enemies of vegetables. But animal laws are far from being as tender as those of the gardeners! In the wild jungle that is a kitchen garden, hundreds of natural wars are happening every day, on as many battlefields called "cabbages", "carrots"... or "artichokes"! By fighting the legions of greenery eaters, hundreds of animals unknowingly become... the gardeners' best friends!
Get ready to get acquainted with amazing fellows... Most often, they pass unnoticed. These aliens inhabit our lives and inhabit our beds, our closets... They are amazing creatures and look like aliens. Imagine a nightmare scenario where all these invaders would be given appointment in a house that could be...
While in Cuba investigating the cause of decimated orange groves in Florida, David and Carlos uncover information that points to a possible bio-terrorist plot on the part of the Cubans. The American President jumps the gun and immediately blames Cuba for the damaged crops.
Jill and the U.S. National Guardsmen begin to recover after receiving the lethargica antidote; but shortly thereafter, the Guardsmen begin to fall ill again with a secondary more deadly infection.
Four Wings and a Prayer is a documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for survival. What scientists are at a loss to fully explain is how the Monarch makes a seemingly impossible three thousand kilometre journey from Canada over mountains, through storms, and across large bodies of water to its small and remote over wintering grounds in the mountains of Mexico. Based on the book by Sue Halpern.
This extraordinary documentary sweeps through the ages from the birth of oil deep in the dinosaur-inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. Now, as we crest the peak of production, Crude reveals a disturbing irony: the latest scientific evidence suggests that our headlong rush to exploit the remaining resource will lead us down a dangerous road to the future. A road the planet has traveled before...