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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

Starts 9 March

Following the award-winning Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a brand new season of Cosmos: Possible Worlds. It presents a triumphant voyage through humanity's past and present and maps a hopeful vision of our future.

Follow Video Brain Games | Trailer Brain Games returns with a Hollywood twist. Host Keegan-Michael Key is challenging the world’s biggest celebrities to realise their exceptional brainpower through fun and highly entertaining interactive games, illusions and social experiments.

Follow Video Beautiful And Elusive: This Bird Is Losing Its Home Roger Fotso has been a key force in establishing numerous prominent national parks around Cameroon as part of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Today he's headed just outside the capital city of Yaoundé to the Kala Forest in search of one of his favourite birds, the beautiful and elusive Grey-necked Picathartes. To find this rare rock-fowl would serve as a sign that the forest is in good condition and still serving as a suitable habitat despite imminent threats of climate change and illegal logging.

Follow Video The Films That Defined the 90s The 1990s begin with controversial characters who dominate the cultural conversation: Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs, the mafiosos of Goodfellas, and the ladies of Thelma and Louise

Follow Video Giant Fish Faces Big Trouble In China Join biologist Zeb Hogan of the National Geographic Society's Megafishes Project as he explores the threats facing the giant Chinese sturgeon and the efforts underway to save it.

News Did early humans in India survive a supervolcano?

Stone tools hint that the population weathered the biggest eruption in two million years, but some researchers aren’t convinced.

Follow Photos Australian Species Affected By Wildfire

News Remembering Katherine Johnson, NASA's 'Hidden Figures' hero, for her love of numbers

The pioneering mathematician helped send the first U.S. astronauts to space—including on the Apollo flights to the moon.

Follow Photos LARGEST FRESHWATER ANIMALS FACE EXTINCTION

News Is a world without trash possible?

The vision of a “circular economy”—where we use resources sparingly and recycle endlessly—is inspiring businesses and environmentalists alike.

Follow Photos Iranian UNESCO World Heritage sites

News The world wants to eat more octopus. Is farming them ethical?

Both highly intelligent and a culinary delicacy, the animals are at the centre of a controversy that pits the conservation of wild octopuses against the ethics of mass-breeding them.

Follow Photos The Hidden World Of Cute Damselflies

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