TV Schedule for Science

How the Universe Works Secrets of the Cosmic Web

New astronomical research is beginning to reveal an invisible scaffold of dark matter known as the Cosmic Web, an intergalactic network that transformed the universe from a chaotic Big Bang into the structured beauty of the present day cosmos.

How the Universe Works Curse of the Cosmic Rays

Cosmic rays capable of destroying human DNA are hurtling through outer space like subatomic bullets, causing space crews radiation damage.

Lost Cities of the Amazon Secrets in the Jungle

Experts investigate clues revealing evidence of a long-lost civilization in the Amazon that built giant cities of untold treasures.

Lost Cities of the Amazon Rise of a Superpower

Archaeologists are finding hard proof of the prehistoric civilization that once thrived in the Amazon; with the help of cutting-edge technology, these new discoveries reveal how these long-lost people built an advanced society in the jungle.

Lost Cities of the Amazon Amazon Apocalypse

New discoveries reveal the mystery of what happened to the ancient superpower that once thrived in the Amazon jungles and, using cutting-edge archaeological methods, finding the reasons why the civilization fell.

Houdini's Last Secrets The Torture Escape

No one knows how Harry Houdini pulled off his death-defying escapes, but, now, a team of experts investigate his water torture illusion to reveal the secrets of this mysterious feat.

Houdini's Last Secrets To Catch a Bullet

The bullet catch is one of the deadliest tricks in magic history, and no one knows if Houdini pulled off the illusion; a team of experts re-creates the famed trick to uncover how Houdini could have pulled off the feat that killed many of his peers.

Houdini's Last Secrets Siberian Prison Conspiracy

One of Houdini's greatest escapes might have been a deep-cover conspiracy to spy for the American government, and experts recreate his break from a Siberian prison transport to investigate the mysteries behind this incredible feat.

Houdini's Last Secrets Buried Alive

Houdini's mysterious sudden death might not have been an accident, and experts re-create his buried alive escape to reveal how this deadly feat was performed and if the great magician was killed by forces far more insidious.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America Secrets of the Catskill Game Farm

A rundown nature park is full of strange secrets and connections; futuristic machines are the forgotten result of a plan to modernize American transit; a subterranean town serves as a refuge in the Wild West.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Aviatrix's Sanctuary

Learning why a radical religious group went to war with a Pacific Northwest town; exploring a wartime detention center in Wyo.; visiting a criminal sanctuary on Florida's Gulf Coast; exploring at the so-called Strangest House in the World.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America Butler Island Plantation: The South's Dark Secret

The notorious owner of this Georgia plantation once held a sale of nearly 450 enslaved people; appalled at her husband's cruelty, the man's wife wrote and published a journal about the atrocities she witnessed.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America Pullman, Chicago: The Town That Paralyzed the Nation

A railroad enterprise once built this company town for its workers to live in, but when thousands of employees went on strike, the military intervened; the history of the complex remains as relevant as ever.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Vermont Doomsday Gun New

A research facility spawns new technology with earth-shattering implications; a coastal haven for African Americans changes the nation; a forgotten fortress fights off a Nazi submarine; a staunch building stands firm on San Francisco's darkest day.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Cult Hotel New

A worldwide communications facility is taken over by a dangerous cult; a secret arsenal harbors the most destructive weapons ever known; an ordinary inn has a surprising history.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America Pullman, Chicago: The Town That Paralyzed the Nation

A railroad enterprise once built this company town for its workers to live in, but when thousands of employees went on strike, the military intervened; the history of the complex remains as relevant as ever.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Vermont Doomsday Gun

A research facility spawns new technology with earth-shattering implications; a coastal haven for African Americans changes the nation; a forgotten fortress fights off a Nazi submarine; a staunch building stands firm on San Francisco's darkest day.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Cult Hotel

A worldwide communications facility is taken over by a dangerous cult; a secret arsenal harbors the most destructive weapons ever known; an ordinary inn has a surprising history.

Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America Butler Island Plantation: The South's Dark Secret

The notorious owner of this Georgia plantation once held a sale of nearly 450 enslaved people; appalled at her husband's cruelty, the man's wife wrote and published a journal about the atrocities she witnessed.

Houdini's Last Secrets Siberian Prison Conspiracy

One of Houdini's greatest escapes might have been a deep-cover conspiracy to spy for the American government, and experts recreate his break from a Siberian prison transport to investigate the mysteries behind this incredible feat.

Houdini's Last Secrets Buried Alive

Houdini's mysterious sudden death might not have been an accident, and experts re-create his buried alive escape to reveal how this deadly feat was performed and if the great magician was killed by forces far more insidious.

NASA's Unexplained Files Curse of the Red Planet

Three cosmonauts mysteriously die as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere and NASA needs to know why; a declassified document shows a CIA plan to use a space disaster as a cover to start World War 3.

NASA's Unexplained Files Pluto Under Pressure

Lost tapes show that Apollo astronauts heard unexplained transmissions on the far side of the moon; an amateur astronomer finds an odd disturbance in Martian atmosphere; an unidentified object in Earth orbit starts stalking Russian spacecraft.

NASA's Unexplained Files Return of the Moon Bugs

Apollo 12 astronauts bring back something alive from the moon; NASA tracks an asteroid heading towards Earth but make an incredible discovery.