Recent New Episodes

BE AFRAID: The Science of Fear

There’s still so much we don’t know about fear. Could it be good for you? What would life be like without it? Watch Full Episode

First Animals

Earth's very first animals, 500-million-years-old, are just being uncovered. Watch Full Episode

Living Colour

A captivating exploration of the science of colour, including a look at people and animals who experience it in fascinating ways. Watch Full Episode

Behind the Lens Blog

Paleontologist scales the Rocky Mountains to uncover Earth’s very first animals

These half-billion-year-old marine fossils are the building blocks of animal life

Uncovering Mother Nature’s crazy experimental phase over half a billion years ago

I travelled to the Rockies to help discover the history of animal life

Victoria photographer spends years documenting the life of a lone wolf off Vancouver Island

“I've just fallen in love with who he is, what his qualities are and how he lives his life out there.”

We change our memories each time we recall them, but that doesn’t mean we’re lying

Science has proven that our memories are more fragile and faulty than we ever thought

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The Wild Canadian Year

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