Discovery Science Friday

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Exploring the construction of large tunnels in one of the world's biggest cities to prevent blackouts, and a look at how a pine forest is turned into timber

The manufacture of delicious baklava, favourite sweet of the Ottomans. Plus, James Bond's gyroplane, the ukulele, and the Supercat - the world's fastest ferry

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

Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds answer more audacious questions, transforming a golf cart into a monster truck, and tackling the science of Spider-Man

Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds engineer a plan to survive a three-story fall without a parachute, and try to escape homemade quicksand

Uncovering the secrets of the city of Thebes in Egypt, one of the largest religious sites in the ancient world

A pioneering experiment shows how ancient Egyptians built the giant obelisks of Thebes, with new findings suggesting how they prompted the downfall of the pharaohs

The discovery of extra-terrestrial life faces a near impossible challenge, so a group of experts explore the problems with proving or disproving the existence of aliens

New scientific discoveries reveal that the moon has an incredible, violent, and dynamic history, which suggests that the moon may be more similar to earth than previously thought

This unique film will take viewers out of this world, on a tour of the history of the telescope from Galileo to Newton to Hubble and to the James Webb Space Telescope

How the world's sharpest photos are taken. Plus, the stitching of an airbag capable of catching a falling car, and the manufacture of billions of perfectly-formed jelly beans

How a caravan tougher than an SUV can be built. Plus, forging tuning forks with perfect pitch, resurfacing an ice rink in minutes, and staging on the world's biggest light festival

Manufacturing techniques behind the groovy vinyl LP and the world's most crashed car - the dodgem. Plus, how one of the world's oldest pain remedies, tiger balm, is created

A look at how the axe was first forged. The programme also observes a messenger bag get cut, sew, stitched and glued together and reveals how the fastest lifeboats are built

How to churn out Wensleydale cheese, turn pig hair into the world's finest paintbrushes, and distil aromatic oils from eucalyptus

How it is possible to build the 700 horsepower Tesla Model S, turn horses' tails into fine fabrics, and clean the largest swimming pools in the world

The story of Mount Everest's elite team of high altitude helicopter pilots, who risk it all to rescue the sick and injured from the dangerous terrain

Pilot Jason heads to the world's highest landing spot to save a hiker injured while in the Death Zone. Meanwhile, rookie rescuer Ryan seeks climbers stuck in the remote Himalayas

Phil Torres and Dr Tori Herridge go on a journey to Siberia for the biggest ever Ice Age dig, unearthing a treasure trove of animals buried in the ground for thousands of years

Experts investigate theories surrounding the possibility of time travel, and ask whether it could ever be more than science fiction

Some of the brightest minds and theorists on the planet explore the limits of human knowledge and explain the science behind the rules of the universe

Earth is spinning on a tilted axis as it orbits around the Sun. Experts and scientists explain how the planet journeys through the Milky Way

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