Secrets of a long life

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

Introduction to DNA by Frank Baxter and Bell Labs.

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles....

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning - the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others...

In the Western world, the life expectancy for most of us is around 80 years of age. But in every corner of the planet, there are people who live...

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The...

10,000 years ago, the European forests were inhabited by huge cattle with protruding horns: the aurochs. Then man began to domesticate them and...

In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to defy aging and extend his life beyond all known...

The onset of the 21st Century will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our...

Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an...

If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few physical advantages. We are far weaker, cannot...