Discovery Science Friday

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An insight into the creation of gingerbread houses, livestock trailers, bottom-rolling hangar doors and toy figurines

The planning, design and manufacturing processed behind the creation of traffic signal poles, coffee filters and chainsaw mining machines

More than 100 million pieces of small space debris are floating around the Earth. A big collision between two of these objects in low Earth orbit could be catastrophic

Aliens could be lethal killers who want to invade and plunder our world. A team of experts investigate extra-terrestrial beings and their threat to human life.

Exploring the secrets of black holes, and the potential some of them have to be lethal to life on planet Earth

Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds pit a modified go against a truck in a drag race, and go paint-balling in the dark with home-made night-vision goggles

Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds try to find a way to chill a drink in less than a minute, and search for a way to send a camera to the edge of space

The construction of the Inca capital of Cusco, focusing on new discoveries that reveal the secrets behind this mighty empire's fall

A Viking fortress lost underground for over 1,000 years is discovered, and experts investigate its buried treasures

New discoveries reveal the importance of black holes in creating stars, giving light, and building the universe itself

New discoveries reveal the secrets of nebulas, which are strange structures of cosmic gas and dust where stars are born and die in space

New discoveries surrounding interstellar space, the space between the universe's stars, which reveal it may not be as desolate as previous thought

A closer look at how slate tiles and hot dog carts are produced

How sharpening steels, bladder pumps, ironing boards and kayak paddles are made

How champagne tops, pneumatic delivery systems, espresso machines and pizza ovens are made

The manufacturing processes behind the creation of stile and rail doors, steam cleaners, hand-held pizzas and power brushes

The long-running manufacturing documentary reveals how industrial casters, wedding cakes, tetrahertz spectrometers and racing catamarans are made

The manufacturing documentary reveals how ceramic grills, pneumatic punching machines, jet fountains and hollow wooden surfboards are made

A missing mummified body could re-write the history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as Ramy Romany investigates whether John Wilkes Booth actually escaped

Archaeologist Ramy Romany investigates whether King Tutankhamun's mummified remains were burnt from a change in the mummification process

A cutting-edge archaeological investigation uses hi-tech methods to scan the ocean floor in search of sunken sphinxes, temples and shipwrecks

New discoveries on a strange Mediterranean island might offer new clues in the hunt for the city of Atlantis, and experts reveal the apocalyptic event that destroyed it

Space isn't as empty as it seems. It conceals a secret structure called spacetime - an invisible field that governs our lives

New discoveries reveal that neutron stars have the power to destroy planets and even other stars

Supernovas are the violent death of giant stars. New discoveries reveal how these events create the elements that are essential to all life in the universe

Beneath the densely populated city of Naples lies a looming threat. A super volcano may be on the verge of erupting and causing an apocalyptic catastrophe

New theories claim the sunken city of Atlantis may have been in the Americas. From the Bahamas to an ancient site in Louisiana, Rob and Stefan seek the evidence

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home