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The Journey Of Humankind

This is the story of how the world became modern, the greatest adventure story of humanity. We go back to the start, when we invented the tools and then the tools invented us! Man and fire, man and medicine, transport, innovations that changed the world and humanity.

Follow Watch Scientists' Hilarious Reaction to Bizarre Deep-Sea Fish September 21, 2018 - Scientists on the Nautilus team ran into a mysterious creature on a recent expedition in Hawaii. The strange fish was found nearly a mile beneath the surface. The colour commentary from the scientists is priceless. The fish is called a gulper eel. Its pouch-like mouth can inflate to swallow very large prey. This is a particularly young eel; adults can be up to three feet long.

Watch Scientists' Hilarious Reaction to Bizarre Deep-Sea Fish

Follow Malaysia Airlines MH370 How did MH370 crash without a trace and why has modern technology failed to pinpoint the wreckage? Now we go inside the longest and most expensive search in commercial aviation history.

Malaysia Airlines MH370

Follow Great Innovators: The Rise Of Australian Wine Actor and devoted winemaker Sam Neill explores the last century of Australian red winemaking. More than just a product of rich soil and golden coastlines, this is an industry built on ingenuity, imagination and science.

Great Innovators: The Rise Of Australian Wine

Follow Electronic 'Skin' Creates Robots From Ordinary Objects Sept. 19, 2018 - When NASA put out a call for soft robotic technologies, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio and her team at Yale University replied with something remarkable: robotic skins that can wrap around everyday objects, turning almost anything into a moving, grasping robot.

Electronic 'Skin' Creates Robots From Ordinary Objects

Follow Watch a Family of Otters Fight Off a Crocodile September 19, 2018 - A wildlife photographer in Singapore captured an interspecies battle. A family of smooth-coated otters confronted a crocodile with no tail. The reptile is famous in the area and the residents have given it the name “Tailless.” Otters are territorial and not averse to taking on predators bigger than themselves. The otters successfully ran the croc out of their home range.

Watch a Family of Otters Fight Off a Crocodile

Follow Sumatran Rhinos Are Nearly Gone—New Plan Launched to Save Them September 20, 2018 – The Sumatran rhinoceros is a critically endangered species. Only around 80 individuals remain. The wild populations are split between the islands of Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo. This isolation of small populations, some as small as one or two individuals, is now the species’ biggest threat. A coalition of conservation organisations, including the National Geographic Society, has formed to save the species. The project, called Sumatran Rhino Rescue, aims to locate wild rhinos and safely transfer them to a nearby sanctuary. There, scientists and wildlife managers will assist in the rhinos’ reproduction and care. Eventually, when a healthy population exists, the rhinos will be reintroduced into the wild.

Sumatran Rhinos Are Nearly Gone—New Plan Launched to Save Them

Follow Future Of Australian Wine Just how far has Australian wine come after decades of perfecting its style? Sam Neil takes us through what the future may hold for Australian wine on the global stage.

Future Of Australian Wine

Follow Sam Neil Talks Wine Actor Sam Neil and Penfold's Chief Winemaker Peter Gago enlighten us on what it takes to be a dedicated vigneron.

Sam Neil Talks Wine

Follow The History Of Australian Wine How did the dryest inhabited continent on Earth, Australia, become one of the most influential winemaking countries whose techniques have been adopted globally?

The History Of Australian Wine

Follow Cork or Screw Cap? Australian drinking trends have evolved over the decades from beer drinkers to cask wine consumers and from corks to screw caps. How did the wine world react to wine screw caps?

Cork or Screw Cap?

Follow Australia's Secret Wine Max Schubert joined Penfolds in the 1930s with an incredible and innovative view of wine. He envisioned a wine that would one day rival the French. This is the story behind the world acclaimed Penfold's Grange vintages.

Australia's Secret Wine

Follow How One Aussie Changed The History Of Wine A South-Australian wine chemist, Ray Beckwith made a breakthrough in the 1930’s that would revolutionise winemaking throughout the world. How did his Eureka moment change the course of history and bring Australia as the leading wine researcher in the world?

How One Aussie Changed The History Of Wine

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